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My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph. They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. For these men are lately drawn from the ways
Goodreads list: Hitler: Joachim Fest Hitler: Downfall, 1939-45: Volker Ullrich Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich: Richard J. Evans Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939: Volker Ullrich The Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Life of Franz von Papen: Richard Rolfs
“Free Rudolf Hess, The Peace Pilot. For proposing Peace he is in Prison for over 25 yrs. Why?” Stamp on letter to Spiro Agnew
Agnew came into the room as I was putting down the telephone and asked me what I thought of Nixon's Watergate statement. I told him, too, that I could not assess its impact. In a somewhat contemptuous, unfeeling manner, Agnew said that Nixon was kidding himself if he thought he could avoid firing Haldeman and Ehrlichman. He would be lucky if he could save himself. Agnew's acid comment dramatized, on one level, the ambivalent relationship that almost inevitably grows up between the only two nationally elected officials of our government. At the outset, Vice Presidents are always hailed as partners of the President; the new Chief Executive proclaims that he will avoid the tendency of all his predecessors to re-
Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement
In 1939 the Harding reputation reached its lowest point with the publication of Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Incredible Era-The Life and Times of Warren G. Harding (Boston: Houghton Millin Company, 1939). Adams wrote (p. 190): We, the sovereign people, had chosen for leader by an unprecedented majority, at a time of decisions vital to ourselves and hardly less so to the outer world, an amiable, well-meaning third-rate Mr. Babbitt, with the equipment of a small-town, semi-educated journalist, the standards of a hand-shaking joiner and all-around good guy, the instincts and habits of a corner sport, and the traditions of a party hack; an expert on partisan mechanics, a sophomore in legislation, a tyro in economics and government, an ignoramus in world movements and trends. It could not work. It did not work.
[What happens when you get back to Baghdad?] I get back in the palace, either the night of the 23rd, 24th, and it's kind of in shambles. And Bates -- [Gen. Jerry Bates -- has gotten there, and he's got the 250 or 260 of our people, and they're all trying to find a place to sleep. There's no bathrooms; there's no running water or anything.... This kind of is a mess. The phone rings, and I pick it up, and it's Secretary Rumsfeld. He says: "Hey, I'm calling just to tell you what a great job you're doing. It looks like things are really moving. Watched everything going on, and just keep up the good work and all that. And by the way, I wanted to let you know that today the president chose Jerry. Bremer to be his presidential envoy, and he'll be coming over there." And he said, "I don't know when the president's going to announce that, but it could be today, or it could be tomorrow. It can be next week." I said, "Fine." I said, "Really, what I'd like to do is put that off till about July, because I've got a lot of moving parts here that I think that I can get solidified by July." And he said, "Well, I don't have any control over that." He says, "I don't think I can give you that." And I said, "Well, then, when he gets here, I'll come on home." He says: "I don't want you to come home. I want you to stay there with him a while." …. Essentially, I guess the first day I got to Baghdad, I was a lame duck. Why the decision change that quickly? You hadn't done anything yet. I don't know. I don't know -- although there were always plans for me to be a temporary guy, ... and that's fine. The problem I had is, I thought that by early July that we'd have a lot of things in place that would begin to provide the structure of government, that type thing.
Regan later said he did talk to the president about his status. Shortly after talking with Bush on that Monday, he entered the Oval Office and asked when the president wanted him to leave. After some uncomfortable shifting in his chair, Reagan shocked him by suggesting that "now" sounded fine to him. Regan, who had never let anyone thwart him in his entire professional career, exploded. "You can't do that to me!" he yelled. "I deserve better treatment than that!" The president was apparently intimidated by the display. He finally asked Regan what he thought would be a proper timetable. The two agreed that the following Monday, March 2, sounded fine.
After ten days, Noriega surrendered on January 3, 1990.He was detained as a prisoner of war, and later taken to the United States.
JAPANESE victories might be praised effusively especially if ther was a chance thereby to arouse German envy).' But Christmas 1941 did not bring cheer to Benito Mussolini. Rather his misanthropy deepened yet again. From Germany there was news of the sudden sacking of General Walther Brauchitsch, with its implication that the Soviets were not yet wiped from the map.? Was the Eastern Front to prove that Hitler was a coglione (prickhead)? - Ciano must have enjoyed writing down the word, although he ascribed its usage to a German diplomat.3 But the most blatant malice was not guaranteed to raise a smile from his father-in-law these days. Instead Mussolini used the occasion of a meeting to reveal the gall within his soul. From inveighing about the need further to politicise his army (another utterly barren wish on his part), Mussolini switched his hostility to Christmas. He was amazed, he said, that the Germans had not abolished it. The festival recorded 'only the birth of a Jew who presented the world with theories which weakened and emasculated it'. Christ, he complained, had 'especially stuffed Italy given the Papacy's ability to fracture Italian society'. To eradicate such pestiferous influences, the Duce boasted, he had prohibited Italian papers from mentioning the birth of Jesus. It was a futile gesture. One look out of the window of the Sala del Mappamondo, Ciano commented to the privacy of his diary, and it was plain that the people, bustling around the street outside, 'remembered [Christmas] and loved it still'. Mussolini, it might be concluded, was being thwarted even in his aspirations to be a grinch. Perhaps some party lovalists did nostnone thair
420 The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Memorandum [Mount McGregor, N. Y., July 9-12, 1885] I am satisfied now that I will never have my voice again so as to converse, though I see no reason now, more than I have for the last thre[e] months, of immediate danger. But persons in [my] condition never know when they may be called] and there are some things which should be arranged in advance. I believe I have left with you memoranda which, with my will,' cover all points except one. The public may be somewhat interested in the place of my burylal] I should designate West Point beyond all other and fix that as the place where my remains we[re] to rest but for the reason that my wife could not] rest in the same burying ground though she they can at the same place. If she objects to this then I hav[e] no choise between the vicinity of new york city and the state of Ill. I owe much to both states—Ill. gave me my first commission in the army,? to the citizens of N. Y. I am indebted for the means to enable me to spend my latter days without feeling privation or] want
American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.
Speech to Ulysses S. Grant' General Grant [March 9, 1864] The nation's appreciation of what you have done, and it's reli. ance upon you for what remains to do, in the existing great struggle, are now presented with this commission, constituting you Lieutenant General in the Army of the United States. With this high honor devolves upon you also, a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. I scarcely need to add that with what I here speak for the nation goes my own hearty personal concurrence. 1 AD, owned by Ulysses S. Grant, III, Washington, D.C. On the night of March 8, 1864, General Grant reported to President Lincoln at the White House in obedience to orders received at Nashville, Tennessee, several days before. The president's weekly reception was in progress, but following an ovation to General Grant, Lincoln arranged to meet him later for a private con-ference. Nicolay's report of the conference is as follows: "The President here made an appointment with him for the formal presentation next day of his commission as lieutenant-general. 'I shall make a very short speech to you,' said Lincoln, 'to which I desire you to reply, for an object; and that you may be properly prepared to do so I have written what I shall say, only four sentences in all, which I will read from my manuscript as an example which you may follow and also read your reply—as you are perhaps not so much accustomed to public speaking as I am; and I therefore give you what I shall say so that you may consider it. There are two points that I would like to have you make in your answer: First, to say something which shall prevent or obviate any jealousy of you from any of the other generals in the service; and second, something which shall put you on as good terms as possible with the Army of the Potomac. If you see any objection to doing this, be under no restraint whatever in expressing that objection to the Secretary of War."
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump If Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras! Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP 24 ReTruths 77 Likes 11/28/25, 1:18 PM
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary's order to leave no survivors.
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The prime minister has said sorry to a headteacher after leading primary school children in a version of the viral 6-7 dance meme. Sir Keir Starmer visited Welland Academy in Peterborough with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson on Monday to promote the expansion of the free school meals programme. During the visit, Sir Keir was reading with pupils when one pointed out they were on page 6 and 7. The prime minister made the juggling hand gesture that accompanies the reference, prompting class-wide hilarity. "You know children get into trouble for saying that in our school," a teacher told him afterwards. "We are not over that yet, the 6-7, it's still very much a thing." As he left the room, Sir Keir told headteacher Jo Anderson it had been a "bit wild" in the class, only to be told the dance was banned at the school.
MR. ABRAMS, I would say we were in the fundraising business. I take your point. SENATOR EAGLETON, Take my point? Under oath, my friend, that’s perjury. Had you been under oath, thats perjury. MR. ABRAMS, well I don’t agree with that. SENATOR EAGLETON: That's slammer time. MR. ABRAMS: I don't agree with that, Senator. SENATOR EAGLETON, Oh, Elliott, you're too damn smart not to know -- MR. ABRAMS! I think that the .. SENATOR EAGLETON, We're not in the fundraising business. You were in the fundralsing business, you and Ollie. You were opening accounts, you had account cards, you had two accounts and didn't know which account they were going to put it into. MR. ABRAMS: You've heard my testimony . SENATOR EAGLETON: I've heard it, and I want to puke.
MR. ABRAMS, I would say we were in the fundralaing business. I take your point. SENATOR EAGLETON, Take my point? Under oath, my friend, that’s perjury. Had you been under oath, thats perjury. MR. ABRAMS, well I don’t agree with that. SENATOR EAGLETON: That's slammer time. MR. ABRAMS: I don't agree with that, Senator. SENATOR EAGLETON, Oh, Elliott, you're too damn smart not to know -- MR. ABRAMS! I think that the .. SENATOR EAGLETON, We're not in the fundraising business. You were in the fundralsing business, you and Ollie. You ware opening accounts, you had account cards, you had two accounts and didn't know which account they were going to put it into. MR. ABRAMS: You've heard my testimony . SENATOR EAGLETON: I've heard it, and I vant to puke.
POLITICS IN ANY MODERN SENSE was not possible. Because federalists and Republicans alike fervently believed that the very existence of the United States as an independent republic was directly related to the conflict between Great Britain and revolutionary France, some public officials in the 179os were led into extraordinarily improper diplo matic behavior. Indeed, in this era of revolutionary passions and hatreds, proper and conventional diplomatic behavior from anyone may have been too much to expect. In 1789-1790 Alexander Hamilton carried on private discussions with Major George Beckwith, who was acting as agent of the British government in the absence of a regular minister. He suggested to Beckwith that he, as secretary of the treasury, might be a better channel of communication to the administration than the secretary of state. He went on to tell the British agent that he "always preferred a Connexion with you, to that of any other Country, We think in English, and have a similarity of preju-dices, and of predilections." When in 1791 Jefferson as secretary of state greeted the first British minister, George Hammond, with unusually abrupt hostility, Hammond turned to Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton for discussions of Anglo-American affairs. Jefferson and other Republican officials, of course, behaved with France as Hamilton did with England. Jefferson misled the French minister Genet into thinking that France would receive more support from the United States government than in fact it was willing to give. But the impropriety of Jefferson's diplomatic behavior was nothing compared to that of his fellow Virginians, Edmund Randolph and James Monroe. eur Kitrick,
Important part of the text here: “But to others in Trump's orbit, Pence was not much of a presence even when he was in the room. To say Pence was vanilla was to underestimate the blandness he projected. "Mike Pence is vanilla ice cream," explained a prominent adviser to Trump, "but he's not Breyers vanila ice cream or Häagen-Dazs. He's like Stop & Shop vanilla ice cream"-generic, boring, predictable, and not necessarily worth opening the freezer” From The Divider (Baker and Glasser 2022)
President Reagan and his staff made mistakes in the Iran-Contra Affair.* It is important at the outset, however, to note that the President himself has already taken the hard step of acknowledging his mistakes and reacting precisely to correct what went wrong. He has directed the National Security Council staff not to engage in covert operations. He has changed the procedures for notifying Congress when an intelligence activity does take place. Finally, he has installed people with seasoned judgment to be White House Chief of Staff, National Security Adviser, and Director of Central Intelligence. The bottom line, however, is that the mistakes of the Iran-Contra Affair were just that—mistakes in judgment, and nothing more. There was no constitutional crisis, no systematic disrespect for "the rule of law," no grand conspiracy, and no Administration-wide dishonesty or coverup. In fact, the evidence will not support any of the more hysterical conclusions the Committees' Report tries to reach.