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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on February 15, 2012, 08:43:50 AM
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Some things don't change.
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Awesome.
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Yeah. I got this in an email this morning. Geez......
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"a prominent Democrat of the state of Georgia"....Had to be Zell MIller or the next to last conservative democrat in the south.
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they could print "damn" and "hell" back in the forties?
i thought that was taboo.
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they could print "damn" and "hell" back in the forties?
i thought that was taboo.
Dunno. Maybe an exclusion was made for congressional statements. :???:
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The more things change...
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The more things change...
I never studied Truman much. but he had that sign on his desk, "THE BUCK STOPS HERE." Maybe it should have been "STARTS" in lieu of "STOPS."
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Where is the buck?... -owebuma-
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"a prominent Democrat of the state of Georgia"....Had to be Zell MIller or the next to last conservative democrat in the south.
It was 1949.
I'll bet it was Gene Talmadge.
He was the one who wore red suspenders.
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Ooops, no, it couldn't have been. Gene Talmadge died in 1946. Sorry.
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I never studied Truman much. but he had that sign on his desk, "THE BUCK STOPS HERE." Maybe it should have been "STARTS" in lieu of "STOPS."
Truman's presidential library is close to where I live, and I've visited there a good number of times, and read a lot of his personal papers. He was just a tad on the liberal side of center......unlike FDR. He seriously considered a "national healthcare" plan, but did some simple math and decided that it would bankrupt the country, and told his party leaders as much.....much to their dismay.
He was a pragmatist.....with vast reserves of common "horse sense", which I'd take any day, in lieu of a Harvard degree.
According to his biography, he had absolutely no presidential ambitions, but was "drafted" without his knowledge to be FDR's VP, when the Dem elites figured out that FDR was unlikely to live long enough to complete his fourth term. He found out that he was the VP candidate at the convention when it was announced from the podium.....no one was more surprised than he. Being the former soldier that he was, he reluctantly accepted.
As an aside, his wife HATED DC in general, and the White House in particular, and spent most of his presidency in Independence with her parents. Ironically, he never owned his own home, they lived in his wife's parents house, which is considered his "home", but she inherited it when they died.
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Truman sure as hell distrusted, loathed, and despised Uncle Joe Stalin.
And gave the green light to drop those two A-bombs on Japan. Somehow, I just can't see the present empty-suit-in-chief making that same decision.
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Truman sure as hell distrusted, loathed, and despised Uncle Joe Stalin.
And gave the green light to drop those two A-bombs on Japan. Somehow, I just can't see the present empty-suit-in-chief making that same decision.
Panetta had to make an end run around His Holiness in order to assist bin Laden in the process of assuming ambient temperature.