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1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I could see nothing in the offing remotely resembling Illinois dele
gates for Hiram Johnson.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
He made all the right contacts, won slate after slate of 'uncommitted' dele
gates.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Dwight Morrow buttonholed dele
gates, informing them what a great man his Amherst classmate was.
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'Women dressed in white,' he noted, 'moved prettily through the dele
gates, armed only with little white wands, and every wand was tied with a blue ribbon, signifying law and order.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Only four other New York dele
gates joined Roosevelt and Lunn in marching it around the hall.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
If dele
gates had had their preference, they might have chosen Smith for vice president, but Smith had no interest.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Ellen Maury Slayden, wife of Texas Congressman James Luther Slayden, wrote:
For months past[,] women have stood like wooden Indians, one on either side of the two White House gates....
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
After Warren Harding obtained the nomination, former Chicago First Ward alderman Oscar S. De Priest and former collector of Internal Rev
enue at Honolulu Charles A. Cottrill led a representation of black dele
gates to him before he departed Chicago.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Democrats featured 41 female dele
gates at large, 63 district delegates, and 204 alternates.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
It convinced them and made them say:
This
was a leader.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
They have seen him torn, bleeding, and writhing under a severed friendship, and have wished, and sometimes even advised, that he go to the estranged friend with open hands and say: never mind the past; never mind how we have differed; let's forget all that; let's be friends again and happy.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'I can't say I foresaw in the first minute what was going to happen,' Helen Bones recalled.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson had been a devoted couple-some might say a passionate couple-as witnessed by this letter from Wilson in 1902 to his wife of 17 years:
How do you expect me to keep my head, you dear thing ...
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
All I can say in return is that I love you as you deserve to be loved-as much as you can possibly want to be loved.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Some say yes; some say no. For years, they exchanged correspondence (227 letters survive).
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Of course, they might have been concerned with bigger events-say, world wars.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Merely a nice old man, he would not resist anything Woodrow Wilson might say or propose.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Once when the Colonel called him on the telephone and asked for an appointment, I heard him say, 'I wish he would leave me alone!' at the same time granting the request.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Nothing we could say could disabuse his mind of this thought.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'I told [Bullitt],' Lansing wired Wilson, 'that I would say nothing against his resigning since he put it on conscientious grounds, and that I recognized that certain features of the Treaty were bad, as I presumed most everyone did, but that was probably unavoid
able in view of conflicting claims and that nothing ought to be done to prevent the speedy restoration of peace by signing the Treaty.'
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proceeding from exactly the same sources
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that the organized propaganda proceeded from which threatened '*is country here and there with disloyalty, and I want to say-I Odnnot say too often-any man who carries a hyphen about with
him
carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready.
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It always seems to make it difficult for me to say anything, my fellow citizens, when I think of my clients
in
this case.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
That August, he wrote his friend and supporter, the progressive editor of the
Emporia
(Kansas)
Gazette,
forty-nine-year-old William Allen White:
What is perfectly impossible, what represents really nauseous hypocrisy, is to say that we have gone to war to make the world safe for democracy, in April, when sixty days previously we had been announcing that we wished a 'Peace without victory' and had no concern with the 'cause or object' of the war.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
But if the leaders of the party come to me and say that they are convinced that I am the man the people want and the only man who can be elected, and that they are all for me, I don't see how I could refuse to run.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
' I must say it was a little obtuse and raw of Harding to make that offer to Nick in my presence,' Alice would later muse.
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Nan interrupted to say she was really twenty-another lie.
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Just before the conven
tion was to open, New Mexico Senator Albert Fall remained aboard the lonely Harding bandwagon:
They say Warren Harding is not getting newspaper publicity.
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Well, I'm glad he isn't, but you haven't heard anyone say that Warren Harding is making any enemies anywhere[,] have you? That's the answer.
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The stars say that he will give his life for a cause.
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It would be dif
ficult to say that he had a happy life.
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Coolidge eyed him, then asked: 'Anybody else got anything to say?' Another repeated essentially the same points but in wordier fashion.
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The letter didn't
say
vote Democratic, but outraged Republicans knew it
meant
vote Democratic.
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[Attorney Gen
eral] Palmer thought it would be to throw up our hands and say the Democratic party was a bankrupt.'
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He says he will not enter in any primary-does not want nomination unless people want him enough to say so without contest.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Sara warned her son about the perils of early marriages
but even she could hardly say no to her son marrying a Roosevelt.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
When Daniels left-say to Europe-and left FDR in charge, he left detailed instructions on what to do.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Unable to restrain his sarcastic bent, he wrote Eleanor:
All I can say is that your latest newspaper campaign is a corker and I am proud to be the husband of the Originator, Discoverer and Inventor of the New Household Economy for Millionaires!
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Some say that Eleanor never again slept with Franklin.
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McAdoo was, to say the least, impressed.
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He remained isolated, accessible only to a shrinking circle of trusted individuals-Edith,
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KwD
OF LIBERAL'
Grayson, Tumulty-and they never dared say anything he didn't want to hear.
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At times the President, whose grit and determination are mar
velous, seems to show a slight improvement, is in good spirits for several days, even a week or ten days, transacts business with Tumulty-and then suffers a relapse, or I should say, becomes very morose.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
But I think we can well afford to take chances that about eleven minutes after two o'clock on Friday morning at the convention, when fifteen or twenty men, somewhat weary, are sitting around a table, some one of them will say, 'Who will we nominate?' At that decisive time the friends o£ Senator Harding can suggest him and afford to abide by the result.
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We knew she would say this and she did....
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She could talk indefinitely and never say a sharp or offensive word about a human being.'
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I'm not talking for effect; he is all the things that I say he is and more.
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Proclaimed Mrs. Robinson:
People often say to me in these last days, 'You wish to have Leonard Wood as President because he was a friend of your brother, Theodore Roosevelt.
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and men in these troubling the
times can say, 'Steady, boys, steady.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Not too far from the end of his peroration, Willis leaned down and remarked, in mock conspiratorial tones, 'Say, boys-and girls-why not give your votes to nominate Senator Harding.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Somewhere between 11:00 and noon that Friday morning, he confided to Nicholas Murray Butler: 'I cannot afford to keep these rooms any longer and I have sent word downstairs to say that I am giving them up this evening.
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This was done, and we had a conference of perhaps three quarters of an hour, I should say.
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'I must say, it's a hundred and ten in this place and you advise me to keep cool!'
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They were able at Chicago to say nothing in
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just about one-tenth the number of words which the Democrats needed to say the same thing.
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But since we need a united front, go see Charlie Murphy and say we wont nominate Roosevelt if he objects.'
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If things somehow fell through, as they had for Irvine Lenroot, Franklin would be able to say he had not really wanted the job anyway.
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I may not be able to say all I think[,] but I am not going to say anything that I do not think.
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I said then, I
say
now, that while there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free....
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
They will say I am cold-blooded and indifferent, but it will make no impression on me.
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'Gene wishes me to say to you that personally he owes nothing to the Communists,' his brother Theodore would write in 1922 to J. Louis Eng
dahl, by then a Red.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
They say: 'We are a democracy.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I did say and I still believe it would be a fortunate thing for Republicans to play their full part in bringing about ratification.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I desired that my party in both State and nation might say that it was a Republican from the East mountains of Tennessee, the purest Anglo-Saxon section in the world, who made the national woman suffrage possible at this date, not for personal glory but for the glory of his party.'
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His mother was also heard from later that day, telegraphing the League of Women Voters:
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'A MorFm's
ADVICE
Is
ALWAYS SAFFSr'
Woman was here to-day, claims to be wife of Governor of Louisiana [most likely it was; Ann Pleasant, Governor Ruflin Pleasant's wife, was in Tennessee campaigning against suffrage], and secured an interview with me and tried by every means to get me to refute and say that the letter I sent to my son was false.
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suffragettes had struggled so long to get their `Rat' into ratification that someone ought to lend a hand when they needed it most, and I'm proud to say my boys and I are pals.
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'BACK
To
NORMAL'
Men who were there say the convention wanted me for Presi
dent.
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In connection with the former, I think I can say there is no man better fitted to bring this country back to normal more efficiently than Warren G. Harding.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Not so long since, I met a fine, elderly daughter of Virginia who would have been justified in boasting her origin in the Old Dominion, and uttering her American pride, but was shocked to hear her say, 'I am no longer an Amer
ican.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Facing reporters an hour and a half later, Roo
sevelt had little more to say than that Cox would be Wilson's 'wholly worthy successor.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
He speaks with a strong clear voice, with a tenor note in it which rings-sings, one is tempted to say-in key with ...
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Administration insiders heard what FDR
didn't
say.
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Instead, he wrote FDR:
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'A PRETTY GOOD CONSTITUTION'
DEAR OLD MAN, -
This is hard work-to say that I can't be with you on this great day in your life.
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The facts are that I wrote Haiti's Constitution myself and, if I do say so, I think it a pretty good Constitution.'
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I am willing to admit that he didn't say it, though I was there and heard him say it at the time.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I heard him say he had the votes of Haiti and San Domingo in his pocket and that he turned them over to Secretary Daniels, and I heard him say that he wrote the constitution of Haiti and heard him add 'and if I do say it myself it was a pretty good
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'A
PRETTY GOOD
CONST=ON'
little constitution.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
But I would not be fit to be President of the United States if I did not tell you in the south precisely the same I would say in the north.
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'Both [political] par
ties,' editorialized the
Call
on November 1, 'do regard the possession of Negro blood by any man seeking office to be as unfitting him for public office[,] but they dare not say this openly.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
I say to you there has been entirely too much said in secret places about social equality for the future good and serenity of our people.
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But
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'IT WAs AN EARTHQUAKE'
before I go[,] I want to say something you ou&'to know.
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say, dearie, do you love me!'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'The water,' he would say, 'put me where I am, and the water has to bring me back.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
When Wheeler died, Will Rogers remarked: 'The best fight a man can put up is to have his enemies say, if he passes out in the middle of the fight, is: 'Well, I am glad he is out of the way.''
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
say so without contest: Daniels (Cabinet Diaries), p. 502.
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heard him say it at the time': Providence Journal, 19 October 1920, p. 14.
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Some sources say that Harding had privately called upon Ford
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New York Sen
ator Elihu Root had cautioned Daniels of his under-secretary's ambitions, saying: 'Whenever a Roosevelt rides, he rides in front.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Roosevelt himself couldn't resist being amused by a traveling companion's remark regarding the Haitian min
ister of agriculture, 'I couldn't help saying to myself that that man would have brought $1,500 at auction in New Orleans in 1860 for stud purposes.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'I like John King,' he had a way of saying.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Wilson refused, saying McAdoo had obtained the job 'solely on ...
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
When Ohio Governor James M. Cox requested informa
tion from the justice Department's APL files on German wartime propa
ganda activities, Palmer refused, saying the material consisted of 'gossip, hearsay information, conclusions, and inferences.'
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They quoted Daugherty as saying:
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At the proper time after the Republican National Convention meets, some fifteen men, bleary[-]eyed with loss of sleep and per
spiring profusely with the excessive heat, will sit down in seclusion around a big table.
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There are three kinds of men: The man who uses only words; the man who uses the brawn and blood
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of another man by saying, 'Go!' and the man, the kind of man we want who says, 'Come!' and I want Leonard Wood.
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'That was when the young man asked me if I was sure I heard what he was saying.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
In April 1920, Wood endorsed suffrage, saying it would create 'an amaz
ingly better world.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
As the campaign drew to a close, the
San Francisco Call
quoted Hoover as saying that Harding still supported a League and that he (Hoover) had reached an agreement with California Republican Senatorial candi
date Samuel M. Shortridge on the issue.
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'We get hundreds of let
ters saying it's a rich man's sport.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Democrats, heavily beholden to the party's Southern wing, avoided saying
anything
favoring equal rights.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
For example: Along the way, Chancellor wrote to Democratic Party headquarters in Columbus, saying Harding's father was 'obviously a mulatto.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Jimmie Cox's first wife was a Harding-Mayme Simpson Harding; and during the San Francisco convention, Cox's daughter, Helen Cox Mahoney, was widely quoted as saying the two families were related: 'I have always thought of Senator Harding as an uncle.
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At 10:30 P.M., Daugh
erty turned to Harding, saying 'There is no doubt about the result.
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He fin
ished, then started again: 'Just one word more, I cannot refrain from saying it.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Within a year, Louis Wehle was plot
ting to make him not
Vice
President, but
President-and
FDR wasn't saying no to that either.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
He refused, writing Universal president Carl Laemmle in November 1918: 'I doubt my qualifications for the position you offer,' saying that he intended to practice law in New York.
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sure I heard what he was saying': Cobb, pp. 274-276; Washington Past, 29 June 1919, p. A9.
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FDR wasn't saying no to that either: Wehle, pp. 90-92.
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John supplies the effi
ciency,' says TR, 'and I supply the morals.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'Woodrow Wilson is an exile from the hearts of his people,' says Gene Debs.
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'You can go to it so far as I am concerned,' responded FDR; 'Good luck! And it will certainly be interesting to hear what the Colonel says about it.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The law says that liquor to be used as a beverage must not be manufactured.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'He nowhere says he would not accept a nomination,' Glass responded.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Immediately after Mrs. Cox had left Dayton, the petition says, Cox rented another house and moved into it with the three children, then wrote her telling her she could not re-enter his home.
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At Least Debs Says It's So.
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Hiram Johnson snapped:
Mr. Harding says he has turned his back upon the League; that he desires neither reservations but rejection of it and that if elected he will not go into the League.
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Mr. Hoover says Mr. Harding is going into the League.
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Under a column marked 'What the Republican Party Says,' Johnson cited appro
priate quotes from the GOP platform and from recent Harding and Coolidge speeches.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Under 'What the Democratic Party Says,' a heading entitled 'Democratic Platform' read 'Nothing.'
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
He went to school with Dr. Gen. Tryon Harding, the second (father of Warren G. Harding), knew his father Charles Harding and Charles Harding's two brothers who were uncles of George T Harding, the second, and says that they had the color, features, and hair of negroes and were so considered and accepted in the community.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
O£ hundreds of persons interviewed of those who knew him as a rural school boy and as college student, everyone without excep
tion says that Warren Gamaliel Harding was always considered a colored boy and nicknamed accordingly.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
In Chicago, on Election Eve, five thousand Socialist Party supporters sang 'The Marseillaise' and carried banners reading
'FREE ALL POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL PRISONERS,' 'COX SAYS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS THE WORK OF GOD; WE WANT A MAN ON THE JOB; ELECT DEBS; ELECT DEBS,'
and
~'LONG LIVE THE RUSSIAN SOVIET.'
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'I will make no statement tonight,' Cox coldly informed reporters, 'and whatever my paper says is purely impersonal.'
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They wed at the bride's home at 8:30
EM.,
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In that same parlor, on October 4, 1905, they wed.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
They wed under a canopy of a thousand pink roses on Friday, March 17, 1905-Eleanor's mothers birthday-at 8 East Seventy-sixth Street, Eleanor's grandmother's home.
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Doris and Dudley wed that December.
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Doris and Dudley wed that December: NY Times, 10 December 1921, p. 4.
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Wilson's second major altercation involved Graduate School Dean Andrew E West.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
West wanted a new residential graduate campus built somewhat distant from the main campus.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Wilson won the war of high-flown rhetoric, but West trumped him in the donation department.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
First, he secured $500,000 from Procter and Gamble's William Cooper Procter (Procter's wife had been West's student at a Cincinnati high school), the offer hinging on
not
using Wilson's site.
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Then, West received an $800,000 bequest from the estate of alumnus Isaac C. Wyman, whose will stipulated
12
'DISCOVER A COMMON HATE
°
that the money be used to build the school near where his father fought in the Revolutionary War Battle of Princeton.
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House's character Dru, a West Point graduate-turned-social-worker, busted trusts, reformed the tariff, overhauled the national banking system, and enacted a federal income tax (still not yet constitutional in 1912).
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The West, however, remained solidly Democratic.
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But the middle and far West were up for grabs; and so, on a steamy Wednesday evening, September 3, 1919, he commenced a grueling 22-day, 9,981-mile speaking tour designed to save his League.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
In late September 1919, with Wilson still in the West, a new British Ambassador, Sir Edward Grey, had arrived in Washington.
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utter never forgot Penrose's words: 'To anyone who had ever seen
erry-slip
on the Hudson River at high tide with a west wind blowing,' would write, 'this was a perfect description.'
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Harding was 'not too far West to upset the traditions of the effete East; neither is he too far East to be unsatisfactory to the sturdy West.'
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Born on August 10, 1874, in tiny West Branch, Iowa, his family was not quite dirt-poor, but close to it.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The Hoovers, and most of West Branch, Were Quakers: frugal, modest, tem
perate, patient-and Republican.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
'I had some nice talks with Herbert Hoover before he went west for Christmas,' Franklin Roosevelt wrote to their mutual friend, diplomat Hugh Gibson, on January 2, 1920.
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But the rank and file membership of the Republican party
in the North and West comprised the majority of skilled workmen, farmers, professional and small-business men.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
The newlyweds took a West Forty-fifth Street apartment, but then Sara rented a four-story brownstone for them at 125 East Thirty-fifth Street, not two blocks from her own home.
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Failing to obtain appointment to either West Point or Annapolis, he attended Harvard, graduating from its med
ical school in 1883 and serving as Boston's City Hospital's house surgeon.
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Wood had handled delicate situations with skill (and did the same in late October, commanding troops in West Virginia's coal-mining regions), but was soon employing a heated rhetoric regarding the national situation, becoming not so much the heir to Roosevelt as the proverbial man on horseback, threatening to settle every labor dispute at bayonet-point, to
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restore law-and-order at gunpoint.
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Procter launched largely futile forays into favorite-son states like Ohio, Massachusetts, and West Virginia, angering potential allies like Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Howard Sutherland.
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Johnson won easily, by 45,000 votes, demonstrating appeal beyond the underpopulated Far West and Upper Midwest.
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The season's last contest arrived mercifully, if anticlimactically, on May 24, in West Virginia, where United States Senator Howard Sutherland fended off a strong effort by Wood and a not-unexpectedly weak effort from the mysterious William Grant Webster.
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
Favorite sons were selected in Pennsylvania (Palmer), Iowa (Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T Meredith), Oklahoma (Senator Robert L. Owen), Connecticut (Democratic national chairman Homer Cummings), Virginia (Senator Carter Glass), West Virginia (Ambassador to the Court of St. James John W Davis), and North Carolina (Senator Furnifold Simmons), while Arizona, Nevada, Maine, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Kansas, and Maryland selected uncommitted delegations.
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It had happened to others John Grier Hibben, Dean Andrew West, Jim Smith, George Harvey, Colonel House, Henry Watterson.
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In late June, Democrats headed west for the Democratic convention in far-off San Francisco, Glass among them.
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George H. Walker of Seattle did likewise for Senator Miles Poindexter ('no clanging militarist'), while former West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Sanders nominated the eleventh candidate, United
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'RED FEATHERS, TIN BEARS, AND CARDBOARD ORANGES'
States Senator Howard Sutherland.
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The Democratic national convention opened on Monday, June 28 at San Francisco's 144,000-square foot Civic Auditorium, the first national convention to be held on the West Coast.
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In April 1919, he surrendered to federal authorities to begin serving his sentence in the Moundsville, West Virginia state prison.
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Nothing happened in Congress for decades, but some movement occurred in the Far West.
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On June 20, 1917, representatives of the
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Russian revolutionary provisional government visited the White House, entering through the west front gate.
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It was steady but unexciting progress, but events in Oklahoma and West Virginia soon provided real drama.
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In March 1920, Democratic Governor John J. Cornwall summoned the West Virginia legislature back into session.
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Delivering 112 formal speeches outside Marion-in Indiana (20), West Virginia (16), Kentucky (8), Illinois (7), Oklahoma (6), New fork (5), Tennessee (5), Minnesota (4), Pennsylvania (3), and Nebraska (2)-he also proved particularly adept at numerous informal talks.
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In October, the campaign dispatched Coolidge, Lowden, and Governor Morrow on an eight-day swing through the upper South-Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and North and South Carolina.
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Remember, that East and West alike, we want gentlemen to represent us, and we ask no man to be a panderer or a hypocrite to get our votes.
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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (to the Far West) to counteract Franklin.
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In September, Warren Harding, already working with the NAACP regarding Haiti, vowed that he would not 'empower an Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy to draft a constitution for a helpless neighbor in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by
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United States Marines....
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Cox swung through eighteen states (each state west of the Mississippi, save for the safe ones of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas) in twenty-nine days, the longest campaign trip then on record.
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They do not feel hopeful about New York, but trust the good reports from the West.
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Palmer stayed home, but McAdoo did campaign, undertaking a three
week West Coast tour to rally progressive support.
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At Jacksontown, Ohio, a notorious speed trap, four motorcycle policemen pulled over Cox's car as it returned from West Virginia, ordering his chauffeur to appear in court.
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The North and West pretty much ignored him.
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so it is impossible for the King of Abyssinia to control the native kings and chiefs in West Africa.
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of the British West Indies, cannot elect himself as the new leader of the world or president of Africa to rule the Africa people and control 300,000,000 black people....
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The first, dated Saturday, October 9, was from fifty-eight-year-old Calvin G. Keifer of 315 West Railroad Street, Galion, Ohio.
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'The Harding Family Tree' went like this:
The Right
of
the American People to Know
Amos Harding Wife-Huldah Harding
(Black) West Indian Negro (colored)
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'WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING IS NOT A WHITE
Issue
George Tryon Harding 1st Wife-Ann Roberts (colored)
(colored)
Issue
Charles A. Harding Wife-Mary Ann Crawford (colored)
(pass-for-White)
Issue
George Tryon Harding 2nd Wife-Phoebe Dickerson (White)
This marriage was objected to by the brother of [Warren's mother] Phoebe Dickerson for the reason that George Tryon Harding, the second (the father of Warren G. Harding), had Negro blood.
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At 4 P.m., Lawrence V West, thirty-five-year-old sales manager of the Dayton Steel Foundry, phoned Chancellor, who still claimed to know 'nothing whatever about the circulars entitled `the Harding Family Tree'' or about Harding's 'pedigree.'
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On August 20, West Virginia Senator Howard Sutherland revealed to Will Hays that Cox had confided to a game warden that a 'great-grandmother of Senator Harding was a negress.'
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After Wooster College fired Chan-' cellor, he regained his nerve, went on the offensive, reiterated his racial charges, and vowed to sue the
Dayton News
for $100,000 for printing his various statements to Sherwood Snyder, Lawrence V West, and Dean Compton, which he now claimed had never been made.
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Patrons at the Grand's regular 7:15
and 9:00 shows obtained returns while watching William Farnum in Drag
Harlan,
'An Exhilarating Romance of the Speediest Two-Gun Wizard the West Ever Knew,' and live acts Shean and Ruth ('Comedy, Singing, Dancing') and The Brandas ('Comedy, juggling and Dancing').
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National Chairman George White announced that his party had dodged the bullet: Al Smith had been re-elected in New York, and 'direct returns from Kentucky, Idaho and West Virginia [indicate] we shall carry those three States by safe majorities.
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Republicans captured every House seat in Connecticut (5), Delaware (1), Idaho (2), Indiana (13), Iowa (11), Kansas (8), Maine (4), Minnesota (10), Montana (2), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (2), New Jersey (12), New Mexico (1), North Dakota (3), Ohio (22), Oregon (3), Rhode Island (3), South Dakota (3), Utah (2), Vermont (2), Washington (5), West Vir
ginia (6), Wisconsin (I1), and Wyoming (1).
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At Manhattan's St. Nicholas Avenue and West 114th Street, a poll-watcher timed voters.
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He appointed Clara his secretary, married her off to his nephew, Frank Hamon, and then
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dispatched Frank to the West Coast, leaving Jake and Clara to live bliss
fully as man and niece.
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An oddly Wilsoman ploy for the master of the front
porch strategy, his junket covered not only the American West but also made him the first president to visit Alaska.
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While Harding had traveled west, Coolidge went north.
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Committee on Naval Affairs.
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Senator Boies Penrose-Boss of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and unofficial leader of the national GOP's stand-pat wing.
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More significant, however, than Harding's lackluster showing was the identity of his new campaign manager, Harry Micajah Daugherty, a pillar of the Ohio party's stand-pat wing, wheeler-dealer par excellence, and a very successful and wealthy state lobbyist.
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The Bryan wing of the party, isolationist and wary of the rich and the foreign-connected, proved particularly hostile.
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, ,'
Harding's public relations gum Albert Lasker (standing, left) at a
famiqy
wing.
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They were active anarchists (both had fled to Monterrey, Mexico, during the war to avoid the draft), part of a particu
larly radical wing of the movement, the Galleanists, and possessed wide
spread anarchist community connections.
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Energized by the visit-and by the enthusiastic 1,200-person crowd that greeted him (Ohio was the center of the party's radical left wing)
Debs lashed into the war effort:
I realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed on the rights of free [men]....
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'The only difference between the two parties at this moment,' the
New Republic
wrote in June 1920, 'is that the Republicans promise to be reactionary and Democrats have been reactionary'
Chicago Federation of Labor President John Fitzpatrick, a vitriolic opponent of the American Federation of Labor's Samuel Gompers, worked to fashion a new party, a coalition of non-Socialist Party left-wing organizations.
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The World War Veterans, a short-lived left-wing rival to the American Legion, claimed a peak membership of 700,000.
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Eleanor Roosevelt served as an American delegate to the United Nations under Presidents Truman and Kennedy, wrote a newspaper column, 'My Day,' and actively encouraged the liberal wing of the Demo
cratic Party.
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The Politics
of
Unreason:
Right
Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970.
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All of which did not prevent Hoover from winning March's New Hampshire
Democratic
primary.
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Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated in 1912 that
'HE IS CERTAINLY A WONDER'
winning primaries didn't guarantee nomination; but it didn't hurt either, particularly for a newcomer to electoral office, let alone the highest office.
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That November, Berger won election to Congress, winning in a nor
mally Republican district.
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His very public feuding with Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes helped cost Hughes California by 3,713 votes, with Johnson winning the state by
178
296,815 votes.
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Even winning a presidential primary had its limits.
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The next day saw Hiram Johnson snap Wood's modest victory streak,
winning the North Dakota primary.
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Hiram Johnson was very good at two things: winning votes, and yelling about corruption.
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He prospered, becoming a member of the Democratic state committee, and winning election to Congress in 1908, there establishing a progressive reputation.
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I figured that if polite
ness and an honest desire not to humiliate any rival just for the sake of
1920 • DAvm
PiETRUSZA
winning a few votes were ever going to produce anything, this was the time.
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Delegates stood
on their seats to gain the chair's attention, wildly vying to second Silent Cal, with delegates from North Dakota and Michigan finally winning the honors.
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State
side again in 1915, she resumed leadership of the now-disorganized NAWSA and proposed her 'Winning Plan' the next year-an aggressive two-pronged attack on both the state and federal levels, designed to lead to final victory.
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It is easier, after all, to get along on a winning team than on a losing one.
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[an] intangible, utterly charming and surely vote
winning quality.'
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In December 2005, further confirmation of their guilt emerged when a September 1929 letter that Pultizer Prize-winning novelist Upton Sinclair had written to a friend, an attorney in Los Angeles, was made public.
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from winning March's New Hampshire Democratic primary: NY Times, 10 March 1920, p. 1; NYTimes, 2 January 1921, p. Elf.
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winning team than on a losing one: Bagby, p. 123; Downs, pp. 4531355.
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surely vote-winning quality': Miller, p. 174; Elliott Roosevelt and Brough (Hyde Park), pp. 115-116.
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Land routes crossed danger
ous territories, including imposing mountains and vast deserts of modem-day Afghanistan, northern India, Iran, and'Iraq, and required expensive and well
protected caravans to reach Europe from Asia.
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Time Line
1973-75: OPEC raises oil prices; oil crisis
1974: Gerald Ford becomes president after Richard Nixon resigns; War Powers Act passed by Congress; busing battles begin in Boston 1975: Vietnam overrun by North Vietnamese; Communist Pol Pot regime overruns Cambodia; BASIC computer language invented by Bill Gates
1976: Jimmy Carter elected president; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak market first personal computers
RETREAT AND RESURRECTION, 1974-88 721
1
979
:
Camp David Accords; Iranians storm U.S. embassy in Tehran,
take American hostages; Soviets put short-range missiles in western USSR aimed at Europe
ig8o: Soviets invade Afghanistan; U.S. Olympic ice hockey team wins the gold medal; Ronald Reagan elected president
1g81: Reagan fires air traffic controllers; Reagan shot, nearly killed
by John Hinckley; Congress passes Reaganomics tax cuts; Iranian hostages freed
1983: Economic recovery begins; 'Star Wars' speech; marine barracks in Lebanon blown up; Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announce plan to install short-range missiles
in Europe in response to Soviet SS-20s; 'freeze movement' gains momentum _ 1985: Geneva conference with Reagan and Gorbachev
1986-87: Iran-contra affair
1987: Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty signed Gerald Ford, Caretaker
Not many people wanted the job Gerald Ford inherited when Richard Nixon climbed aboard the official helicopter that took him into political exile on Au
gust 9, 1974.
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Perceiving that Carter was distracted, the USSR staged a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and installed a puppet government in Kabul.
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Carter be
latedly ordered a defense buildup and sent warships to the Persian Gulf, but Afghanistan was already in Soviet hands.
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RETREAT AND RESURRECTION,
1974-BB 743
Whipsawed between Afghanistan and Iran, in April 1980, Carter, having lost all initiative and the element of surprise, finally approved a risky scheme to res
cue the Iranian hostages.
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Absorbed with Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East, Carter failed to com
prehend the significance of one of the most important and sweeping movements of the twentieth century, when a powerful resistance movement to communism arose in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe.
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Ironically, Carter was not the only one distracted by Afghanistan: the Soviets seemed paralyzed by the growing independence of the trade unions in Poland and, in any event, could not financially continue to support the rotting carcass of the Eastern European communist states.
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Between 1988 and 2002, three U.S. presidents commit
ted American forces (only two sent ground troops) to three major engagements
the Gulf War, the Bosnia/Kosovo conflict, and the war on terror in Afghanistan.
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„9
z But his practical nature told him that the USSR was taking a beating in Afghanistan and was hopelessly outclassed by the U.S. economy, and that Reagan's Star Wars proposal had theoretically eliminated the only significant advantage the USSR still held over America-its ICBMs9
Gorbachev also found himself bound by Andropov's policy of installing mo
bile, short-range SS-20 nuclear missiles west of the Ural Mountains.
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It did not hurt Reagan's leverage that the Soviets found themselves bogged down in Afghanistan fighting against the Muslim rebels.
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This prompted Gorbachev to issue an order that marked the first significant fis
sure in the Soviet empire's wall: he ordered the withdrawal of 8,000 troops from
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Afghanistan.
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Meanwhile, more than 100,000 Soviet troops continued to be pinned down in Afghanistan, and air losses there to the Stinger missiles (supplied by the Reagan administration) had accelerated.
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Gorbachev, stung by Afghanistan, did not re
act.
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Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi-born funda
mentalist Muslim who had been exiled from his homeland and taken up resi
dence in Afghanistan, directly attacked United States soil.
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From the safety of Sudan, then Afghanistan, bin Laden planned his next strike against the United States.
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Clinton ordered retaliatory strikes, including the bombing of alleged terrorist camps in Sudan and bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan, but only an aspirin factory was hit.
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Time Line
2000:
Election of George W Bush disputed by Al Gore; case goes to United States Supreme Court in December; Court rules that Gore's challenge is unconstitutional; Bush elected president by electoral college; Republicans win Senate and House
zoos: Muslim terrorists attack World Trade Center and Pentagon (9/11); Bush declares war on terror; United States invades Afghanistan and overthrows Taliban government friendly to Al Qaeda terrorists; Al Qaeda evicted from Afghanistan, assets frozen
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zoos: Al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan destroyed; 'Axis of Evil' speech; D.C. Snipers; GOP wins historic election
2oo3:
Operation Iraqi Freedom; Baghdad captured; Saddam Hussein captured
2004:
Iraqi interim government assumes control of Iraq; George W Bush reelected president; Republicans increase majorities in both House and Senate; assault on Fallujah destroyed outpost of terrorist insurgents in Iraq
2005:
New Iraqi government formed; new Iraqi constitution ratified; Iraq Survey Group concludes evidence existed of an Iraqi capability to produce WMDs and of possible transfer of WMDs to neighbors; Hurricane Katrina hits Gulf Coast
2006:
Congress debates illegal immigration; mass marches of illegal immigrants in major cities
Clintonism Collapses
After the 1996 election-and before the impeachment process had gained momentum-Bill Clinton stood atop the political world.-His
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Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America:
'31
Within hours the CIA and FBI had conclusively determined that the hijack
ings were the result of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorist network based in Afghanistan.
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One thing is certain: the CIA never paid bin Laden for his role in the anti-Soviet struggle in Afghanistan, nor was'he ever pro-American prior to the Gulf War.
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Bush had already solicited advice: 'I want the CIA to be the first on the ground' in Afghanistan, he instructed; 'We'll attack with missiles, bombers and boots on the ground,' he concluded.
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On October 7, 2001, a massive series of air-strikes in Afghanistan smashed main
line Taliban forces, allowing the special forces and regular military, who had been
AMERICA, WORLD LEADER; 2000 AND BEYOND 817
airlifted in, to join forces with the Northern Alliance of anti-Taliban fighters.
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Unlike the Soviet infantry and armor doctrines that had failed in Afghanistan just twenty years earlier, the U.S. military employed dynamic, not static, tactics.
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In fact, he was becoming
it-
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relevant as more subtle American financial attacks were shutting down much of the worldwide financial network supporting Al Qaeda and establishing a civilian functioning government in Afghanistan.
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Al Qaeda operatives blew up a Christian church in Pakistan, assassinated the newly named vice president in Afghanistan, and continued to make assassination attempts on U.S. soldiers overseas.
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• The Taliban were eradicated as the governing force in Afghanistan, and a new democratic government was installed.
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Like Afghanistan, Iraq began, to some degree, to be westernized and democratized, and, more important, the two nations 'bookended' the ongoing threat of another member of the 'Axis of Evil,' Iran, which continued unfazed in its efforts to make an atomic bomb.
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INDEX
ABM (antiballistic missile system), 737 Abolition, 227, 264, 328 adverse reaction to, 273 economics and, 330-31 sentiment toward, 462 of slavery, xiv Abortion, 734
clinic, 531 Abu Cbraib, 825 Acadians, 53
Acheson, Dean, 642,643 Adams, John, xii, xiv, 66, 67, 71,80,86-87,828
in 1796 election, 147-48 in 1800 election, 154 foreign policy of, 150-52 on government, 89-90 life of, 131
oath of office of, 129 on revolution, 97 Adams, John Quincy, 99, 171,175,182,185, 192,212
in 1824 election, 198, 201
in 1828 election, 205 economic policy of, 204 as president, 204-5
Adams-Onis Treaty, 185,193 Adams, Samuel, 63, 65, 66,
67, 68, 71, 91 Addams,Jane, 444-45, 499-500,512
Adid, Mohammed, 799 Adkins u Children's Hospital, 538 Afghanistan, 742-43, 801, 814,816-18,826 Africa, 486
African Americans, 256.
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Carnegie, Andrew, 187,
367,444,475,828 business strategies of, 430-31
life of, 429-30 Carnegie Steel, 551 Carolinas, 23-24 Carpetbaggers, 375 Cairanza, Venustiano,
508-9,513 Carter, Jimmy
and 1976 election, 720, 737 Afghanistan and, 742-43 economic policies of, 739 foreign policies of, 739-43 as president, 737-43 Carter, Jacques, 12
INDEX 907
Catville, James, 779, 781 Cass, Lewis, 265, 303 Castro, Fidel, 649, 671-73 Catholics/Catholic Church, 237-38,463,487, 499,732-33
in Maryland, 22 Cato Conspiracy, 46 Cattle, 399-401 Cayce, Edgar, 461 CBS News, 824 Celtic Thesis, 311 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),604,632,802, 814,815,816 Century, 479
Cervera, Pascual, 470 Chamberlain, Daniel, 423 Chamberlain, Joshua, 336 Chamberlain, Neville, 583, 634
Champlain, Samuel de, 12-13 Chancellorsville, 334 Charming, William Ellery, 99 Character, xii, xiii
Charles 1, 28, 36 execution of, 20 Charles 11, 20-21, 23, 34 Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge, 183 Charleston Plot, 263 Charles Town, 23-24 Charter of Liberties, 35, 37 Chase, Salmon P., 276, 342, 357
background of, 323 political strategies of, 323-24
Chase, Samuel, 162 Cheney, Richard, 769, 810, 814
Chemenko, Konstantin, 757 Cherokee, 60, 207-8 Cherokee Nation v..
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When news of the victory reached New England towns, militia flooded into Gen
eral Horatio Gates's command.
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Lord Cornwallis managed to forge ahead, engaging and crushing a pa
triot army at' Camden, but this only brought the capable Nathaniel Greene to command over the inept Horatio Gates.
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The nationalists among the Annapolis Convention dele
gates proceeded to plant'the seed of a peaceful counterrevolution against the Confederation Congress.^
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Arrayed against a broad alliance of Indian tribes (Shaw
nee, Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi), as well as Canadians, British, some French, and even a handful of renegade Americans, Wayne's larger force pushed the 2,000 Indians through the forest and pinned them against a British fort, which refused to open its gates.
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Mallory noticed the crowds had not gathered to watch the retreat, but to pillage the burning city, loot
ing and burning 'while the standards of an empire were being taken from its capi
tol, and the tramp of a victorious enemy could be heard at its gates.'
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Lincoln lamented the tendency of many unionists to 'Frighten them out of the country, open the gates, let down the bars, scare them off.
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New steel-bladed John Deere plows sliced through prairie soil that had lain dormant for centuries; and barbed wire, devel
oped by John Warne Gates, became a standard fencing material on the treeless Plains.
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The appearance of barbed wire carried profound significance for the Plains, where little wood existed, and it benefited from-the sales pitch of John Wame 'Bet-a-Million' Gates, who trained a herd of docile steers and used them in his demonstrations.
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The most famous of these was Morgan's reorganization of Carnegie Steel, which, when merged with John Warne Gates's American Wire Company and other smaller businesses, became U.S. Steel, the world's first billion-dollar corporation.
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That was even before the textile work-' ers began a strike of monstrous proportions, slamming shut factory gates in twenty states and setting off armed conflicts when police and troops battled strik= ers.
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Juden,' to howls of laughter from the dele
gates, few of whom would have guessed that in the next few years he would seek to control or capture parts or all of these nations and peoples.
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American computer manufacturers in the 1980s snapped up 70 percent of the world's software market and 80 percent of the world's hard-drive business, all while a fellow named Bill Gates came to completely dominate the human-to-machine interface known as computer 'lan
guage.'
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Gates eventually licensed his own version of the DOS sys
tern, used by virtually all computers by the 1990s.
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Gates reached his apex with the introduction of Windows, which used a point-and-click 'mouse' controller to give the computer commands.
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jobs, Gates, and the 'boys of Silicon Valley' had not only transformed the information industry, but had touched off a revolution as profound as the industrial revolution, redefining every activity in terms of measurement, improvement, or facilitation through the appli
cation of computers.
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In 1993, the Clinton Justice Department initiated
a
campaign against the nation's largest operating systems company, Bill Gates's Microsoft, for allegedly bundling its Internet browser with its Windows operating system.
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Btlt Americans seldom get worked up when the wealthy are targeted by government, and although consumer surveys showed that upward of 90 per
cent of Microsoft customers applauded the company, competitors were visceral in their anger toward Gates, who many claimed had stolen others' ideas.
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One television commentator said, 'Not since the opening of the gates of the Bastille have so many criminals been liberated on a single day.
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American industry burst forth from the brains of Carnegie and Weyerhaeuser, Vanderbilt and Gates, most often coming from those owning the least in material goods.
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Vernon Carstensen, The Public Lands: Studies in the History of the Public Domain (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962); Paul Wallace Gates, History of Public Land Law Develop
ment (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968).
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The Frontier in American Developments: Essays in Honor of Paul Wall' Gates (Ithaca: Comell University Press, 1969); David B. Danbom, Born in the Country: A History
of
Rural America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
NOTES 867
University Press, 1995); Morton Rothstein, ed.,
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Paul Wallace Gates, Free Homesteads for all Americans: The Homestead Act of 1862 (Washing
ton, Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962); David M. Ellis et al.,
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Larry Schweikart, 'John Wame Gates,' in Paul Pascoff, ed.,
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William T. Youngs, 'Bill Gates and Microsoft;' in Youngs, ed.,
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2, 3d ed: (New York: HarperCollins, 1993); James Wallace and Jim Erickson, Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the
Making of
the Microsoft Empire (New York Wiley, 1992).
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as allies in Revolutionary War, 83-84
colonies of, 12-13 Jefferson and, 142 in Revolutionary War, 77-78
Franklin, Benjamin, 40, 41, 61,68,73,77,86-87, 828
in France, 83-84 at Philadelphia convention, 111 Fredericksburg, 333 Freedmans Bureau, 360, 366-67,369-71,372, 373
Freedom, corruption and, xiv
Free markets, 501
Free and open trade, 463, 480
Freeport Doctrine, 288 Free Soil Party, 219; 240,265 Free speech, 91
Fr€mont, John C., 241, 244, 276,295,306,342-43 French Canal Company, 481 French and Indian War,
54-56,58,77 French Revolution, 97, 141-43 Freneau, Philip, 143 Freud, Sigmund, 459 Frick, Henry Clay, 430,431 Fries's Rebellion, 153 Fuchs, Klaus, 647 Fugitive Slave Law, 267, 272,279,356 reaction to,268-69 Fuller, Margaret, 225
Fur trade, 13, 193-94, 397
Gabriel's Uprising, 157 Gadsden, James, 271 Gadsden Purchase, 251, 271
Gagarin, Yuri, 673
Gage, Thomas, 69, 72-73 Gag rule, 211, 242 Galbraith, John Kenneth,
534,544,551 Gallatin, Albert, 159-60, 171, 175, 181, 210 Galloway, Joseph, 69 Galloway Plan, 69-70 Gama, Vasco da, 3 Gangs, 253'
Gardoqui, Don Diego de, 107
Garfreld, James, 463, 490 Garfreld, James A., 424 in 1880 election, 425 assassination of, 425-26 Garrison, William Lloyd, 227,228,264' Gamey, Marcus, 486, 487
Gaspee,
burning of, 66 Gates, Bill, 751, 753, 788, 828
Gates, Horatio, 82 Gates, John Wame, 402, 452
Gaulle, Charles de, 617 General Court, 29-30, 32 General Motors, 539, 543 General Theory of
Employment, Interest, and Money
(Keynes), 544,561,562
Genet, Edmund, 142-43 George 11, of England, 48, 61
George 111, of England, 56-57,69,91.
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How, historically, did it happen, that the Ameri
can academy is basically anti-American in perspective? As you say there are ex
ceptions to this all across the country, but it seems on balance that the desire is to portray the country's history as negative.
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At the end of that period, say the late 1950s, a lot of colleges went the other direction.
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It wasn't long ago that Ward Churchill would say and do what he said, write what he wrote, and there might be a few howls of protest, but that would be it.
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We say that if you just tell the story of America's past honestly, you can't help but be proud of this country.
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So in a way, you can say
you
are pessimistic, since you had to do this.
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In the book you say the reason so many academics miss the real history of America is that they assume-and I think this is profound-that 'ideas don't matter, and that there is no such thing as virtue.'
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You might say we are more for
tunate because of people like Washington, and the Founders.
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You will say, 'The nut of this is buried 20 paragraphs down.'
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They couldn't immediately say, 'This was possibly the work of the Mafia,' because they couldn't talk about Kennedy's ties to the mob.
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They couldn't say, 'This is possibly the result of a jilted lover, or Jackie hiring a hit man, because she was fed up with this guy.'
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SCHWEIKART:
Once you are in the 60s, you start to see a shift in the journal
ism school, which starts getting into this view that journalists-as you say on your show all the time and I have dozens of quotations to back this up-are 'out to change the world.'
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As we say again and again, if people know the facts of America, they will be proud and patriotic.
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As Adams took the oath of office, he thought he heard Washington say, 'I am fairly out and you are fairly in!
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Despite pits of corruption that have pockmarked federal and state politics-some of them quite deep-and despite abuses of civil rights that were shocking, to say the least, the concept was deeply imbedded that only a virtuous nation could achieve the lofty goals set by the Founders.
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Assignment in America was viewed as a less desirable post than, say, the British West Indies, Madras (India), or even Nova Scotia.
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According to Americanized governmental beliefs, however, if the colonists were to bear new taxes and responsibilities, they had to have a say in their creation.
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While
all
able-bodied males from sixteen to sixty, including Congregational ministers, came out for muster and drill, each militia company selected and paid additional money to a subgroup
20 to 25 percent of its number-to 'hold themselves in readiness at a minute's warning, complete with arms and ammunition; that is to say a good and sufficient firelock, bayonet, thirty rounds of powder and ball, pouch and knapsack.'
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In a nutshell, the proslavery forces argued that the U.S. Congress had no authority over slaves in, say, Indiana-only the citizens of Indiana did.
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Slow the process down, the Founders would say, and many problems will just disappear without laws.
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If the Founders intended courts to possess this ultimate con
stitutional authority, they did not say so in the Constitution.
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It is not an overstatement to say that Adams's election in
1796
was one of the most significant points in the evolution of the Republic, and although not on the momentous scale of the complete up
heaval four years later, it nevertheless marked a bloodless change in leadership seldom seen in human history.
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Needless to say, Federalists like Washington, Hamilton, and Adams were aghast at Citizen Genet's audacity and lack of professionalism.
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Jefferson, aware of the incongruities, instructed his followers to say nothing.
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Greene soon came to say of Whitney, 'He can make anything.'
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To say the least, these developments were hardly in keeping with
American democratic ideals.
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It was an ironic and odd statement from a man whose party had now institutionalized spoils and, some would say, a certain level of cor
ruption that inevitably accompanied patronage.
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Most of these utopians advocated greatly expanded rights (some would say, roles) for women.
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One statesman, in particular-one might say, alone-realized that the aboli
tion of slavery had to come, and could
only
come, through the law.
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In total, slaveholders benefited from monumental reductions in the cost of slavery by, as economists would say, externalizing the costs to nonslaveowners.
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Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright of New Orleans reflected this view when he wrote in 1852_ that it was impossible to 'Christianize the negro without the intervention of slavery
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Such a defense of slavery presented a massive dilemma, not only to the church, but also to all practicing Christians and, indeed, all Southerners: if slav
ery was for the purpose of Christianizing the heathen, why were there so few ef
forts made to evangelize blacks and, more important, to encourage them to read the Bible? Still more important, why were slaves who converted not automatically freed on the grounds that having become 'new creatures' in Christ, they were now equals? To say the least, these were uncomfortable questions that most, clergy and lay alike in Dixie avoided entirely.
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It is not an exaggeration to say that the Civil War was about slavery and, in the long run,
only
about slavery.
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Lee still re
mained in front of them with (they thought) his entire army: who were these new troops? The Union army nearly fell apart, but it held together long enough to prevent a total rout: Another telegram reached Lincoln, who could only pace back and forth, his hands behind his back, asking in despair, 'My God, my God, what will the country say? What will the country
say?
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s To say that the ani
mals covered the interior of America is not much of an exaggeration.
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Yet it is absolutely correct to say that the end result of Indian-white cross-acculturation has been a certain level of assimilation, an aim that had once seemed hopeless.
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It is difficult to say which of the nineteenth-century captains of industry was most important, though certainly Carnegie is in the top three.
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Needless to say, Roosevelt did not share the view that water for people's cities was the practical equivalent of water for trees.
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Nevertheless, when Wilson sailed for the peace conference in Paris on De
cember 4, 1918, it is safe to say that he took the hopes of much of the world with him.
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Which were? Wilson could not, or at least did not, say.
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At the elementary school level, thanks to Massachusetts housewife Mary Hunt, a movement called Scientific Temperance Instruction swept the nation in the 1880s, providing a forerunner to Nancy Reagan's 'Just Say No' antidrug campaign a century later.
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Known as Silent Cal, Coolidge was once the subject of a bet by two dinner guests: one woman bet another she could get Coolidge to say three words in succession.
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One could say the Roosevelt legacy was twice saved by the same war.
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American forces were so unprepared after a decade's worth of neglect that if the United States energetically threw its military behind England (say, by sending aircraft and antiaircraft guns), and if, despite the help, the British surrendered, America would be left essentially defenseless.
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Yet with the benefit of the same hindsight, one must say that the relocation was not, as two historians label it, a policy of 'hysterical racial repres
sion.'
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Even though the Eisenhower administration quietly abandoned the search for communists in the government, the assault
on
American communists became broader and, one could say, 'more democratic,' as communists found themselves harassed, prosecuted, and hunted by the government with the enthusiastic sup
port of large segments of the public.
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By 1965,
Look
magazine would say-speaking mainly of the adults in Society-'Americans to
day bear themselves like victory-addicted champions....
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To say otherwise would be to ignore reality,
On November twenty-second, Kennedy had gone to Dallas to talk up his nu
clear test ban treaty and
also.tofirm
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It never called Jack Ruby to Washing
ton to testify, although he had indicated that he would have much more to say there than in a Dallas jail.
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He appeared to get on well with Kennedy's secretary of defense McNamara, whose facility-some would say alchemy-with numbers seemed to put him in a fog when it came to seeing the big picture.
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This is not to say Vietnam was a poor man's war.
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After all, the thinking went, 'Who's to say
what's right or wrong?' Such views did not go far in science, business, or engi
neering, but the requirements at most universities in general education fields meant that the extremely activist and liberal faculty elements were concentrated into required classes in history, English, philosophy, and social sciences-in other words, where they would reach the most students.
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For mainstream America, which often received skewed news reports of the ostensible causes of the disruption, it appeared that students only wanted to challenge unreasonable dress codes, or have a say in.curriculum,
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more important use of scarce resources than, say, cost or safety.
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It is safe to say that even including the burning of Washington, D.C., in the War of 1812, the United States had never sunk to a lower, more humiliating point internationally
Already damaging his image in the eyes of the public was the 'malaise' speech Carter made in July 1979.
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did not actually hear George Washington say that, but it is a matter of historic record.'
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'
Tax Cuts Revive the Nation
To say that Reagan had a single most important issue would be difficult, for he saw rebuilding America's economy and resisting Soviet communism as two sides to the same coin.
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He told Lou Can
non, 'It's like you and me sitting here in a discussion where we are each pointing a loaded gun at each other, and if you say anything wrong or I say anything wrong, we're going to pull the trigger.'
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Needless to say, few
legislators, and even fewer average citizens, had read the massive 1,342-page.
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It was a perverse situation, to say the least: the most powerful banker in America constantly slapping the nation's wage-earners and entrepreneurs for their success.
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They are the names of people who faced death, and in their last mo
ments called home to say, 'Be brave, and I love you......
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SCHWEIKART:
Okay, but let me preface this by saying I already have a con-
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tract for my next book with Sentinel, which is: A Patriot's History of
the American Soldier: Why Americans Win Wars.
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In June 1676 he demanded a commission 'against the heathen,' saying, 'God damme my blood, I came for a commission, and a com
mission I will have before I goe!'SO
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It goes without saying, of course, that most of these men were steeped in the traditions and teachings of Christianity-almost half the signers of the peclara
tion of Independence had some form of seminary training or degree.
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It goes without saying that Beard is correct to identify the Anti-Federalists as farmers and middle-class workingmen, but this definition bridges a wide range of the population in 1787, including subsistence farmers in western Pennsylvania and upstate New York alongside elite southern planters who led the movement.
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'War with all kings and peace with all peoples,' as the French revolution
ary saying went, might have originated with Genet.
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It goes without saying that most blacks in the American South were slaves.
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In theory, the Court had the option to duck the larger is
sues altogether merely by saying that Scott was a slave, and as such had no au
thority to even bring a suit.
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Douglas had gone on record as saying that it did not matter if slavery was right or wrong, or even if the Constitution (as interpreted by the Supreme Court) was right or wrong.
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for the Sourly'
54
The South did find a new hero-Stonewall Jackson-whose nickname derived from the moment
in
the battle when a South Carolina general pointed to him, saying, 'There
is
Jackson, standing like
a
stone wall.'
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Howard then affixed his own Circular Order No. 13 in July saying that the Amnesty Proclamation 'will not be understood to extend to the surrender of abandoned or confiscated property.'
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George W Julian of Indiana, for example, lectured fellow Republicans, saying, The real trouble is that we
hate the negro.
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the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold stan
dard by saying to them: 'You shall not press upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
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What is often missed is at least one earlier attempt by Hawaii to become a part of the United States: in 1851, King Kamehameha III had secretly asked the United States to annex Hawaii, but Secretary of State Daniel Webster declined, saying, ' No power ought to take possession of the islands as a conquest ...
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Germany, in particular, thought little of the United States, saying, 'God favored drunkards, fools, and the United States of America.'
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Famous for saying, 'History is bunk,' Ford actually spent millions of dollars collecting and preserving historical artifacts.
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While making a speech at Sing Sing prison in New York, Ford opened by saying, 'Boys, I'm glad to see you here.'I
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When the wire services carried the line, they garbled the 'Helen Maria' phrase - a Nebraska farm saying-so it read
'
Hell 'n' Maria:' Dawes quickly became an icon in American pop culture.
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MacArthur returned like a Roman con
queror to address Congress to thunderous ovations as he bade farewell, saying, 'Old soldiers never die.
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It goes without saying that Americans could fly and drive because their pay
checks purchased more than ever before.
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Nixon refused to protest any of these states, saying an electoral crisis had
to
be avoided.
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He then laid it on the table for the NASA administrator, saying that beating the Russians to the moon 'is the top priority of the [space] agency and ...
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King concluded his speech with words almost as famous as those of the Declaration to which he had referred, saying:
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of for
mer slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit to
gether at the table of brotherhood.
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Johnson, although vastly underestimating the undertaking to which he had committed the nation, did not lack an awareness of the implications of fighting a war on the Asian mainland, saying, 'Were not going north and drop bombs at this stage....
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Ho Chi Minh had explained this exchange flatly to the French in the
1940s,
saying, 'You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.'
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One CIA researcher recalled the lab staff using it themselves, saying, 'There was an exten
sive amount of self-experimentation ...
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At one time a New Deal Democrat who had voted four times for FDR, Reagan was fond of saying that he 'didn't leave the Democratic Party; it left me.'
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A small antiwar move
ment organized, brandishing signs saying
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
and
BURY YOUR CAR.
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Or had he? After a few hours, the networks backtracked, saying Florida was too close to call.
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In fact, only minutes earlier, a radio signal from Flight 11 was heard in the Boston regional air traffic control center-an ominous voice saying, 'We have some planes.'
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Not all Europeans reacted negatively: 'Today for the fast time,' the Paris-based
Constitutionnel
wrote on January
2, 1824,
'the new continent says to the old, `I am no longer land for occupation; here men are masters of the soil which they occupy, and the equals of the people from whom they came.
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Another rioter named Lewis Leary, has just died, and con
fessed to the particulars of the plot which he says was concocted by Brown...
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It might therefore be said that when
ever the historical record says 'states' rights' in the context of sectional debates, the phrase 'rights to own slaves' should more correctly be inserted.
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Their emergence says something about the difficulty of applying
labels.
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° An ABC poll conducted within days of the speech found that almost 60 percent of Ameri
cans did not believe 'much of what the president says these days.'Isr
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Honestly, even when you started I didn't know we'd ever get here.
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What we do know is that when Lincoln finally did wed Mary, in 1842, he called it a 'profound wonder.'
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'I'd rather fight under him than Grant and if he were Mahomet, we'd be devoted Mussulmen,' said one midwestern pri
vate.
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Had they given us another week, we'd have
taught
them.'
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4 A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATE$
Columbus departed from Spain in August 1492, laying in a course due west and ultimately in a direct line to Japan, although he never mentioned Cathay prior to 1493.
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Meanwhile, he continued to probe the
Mundus Novas
south and west.
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Royal governors and local bureaucrats maintained the empire in Mexico and the South
west with considerable autonomy from Spain.
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Passage by the North-West to Cathaia and the East Indies
(1576), which closed with a challenge to Englishmen to discover that water route.
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In an even more significant development, a climate receptive to risk taking and innovation, which had flourished throughout the West, reached its most ad
vanced state in England.
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As sociologist Jack Goldstone put it, 'The West did not overtake the East merely by becoming more efficient at mak
ing bridles and stirrups, but by developing steam engines ...
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The combination of available land and the growing popularity of tobacco in England resulted in a string of plantations stretching to Failing Creek, well up the James River and as far west as Dale's Gift on Cape Charles.
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His large farm in the west stood on the front line of frontier defense, and naturally Bacon favored an aggressive strategy against the Indians.
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Crackers answered their detractors by moving on, deeper and deeper into the forests of the Appalachian foothills and, eventually, the trans
Appalachian West.
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Following the explorations of Henry Hudson in 1609, the West India Qompany-already prominent in the West Indies-moved up the Hudson Valley and established Fort Orange in 1624 on the site of present-day Albany.
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Talented painters like
John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West made their living painting the like
nesses of colonial merchants, planters, and their families; eventually both sailed for Europe to pursue purer artistic endeavors.
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Thanks to this existing trade
in
human flesh, there were already ample precedents of black slavery in the British West Indies.
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West African intertribal warfare produced abundant prisoners of war to fuel this trade.
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The British West Indies, for example, were to produce sugar, and any other colony attempting to grow sugar cane faced penalties or taxes.
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Britain hoped to foster interdependence among the colonies with such policies, forcing New England to get its sugar from the British West Indies, cot
ton from India, and so on.
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Britain's new secretary of state, William Pitt, responded to French successes by forging a policy of total war that would simultaneously quell Britain's enemies in India, Africa, the West Indies, America, and on the high seas.
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Subsequent treaties pushed the Indians farther west, demonstrating both the In
dians'growing realization that they could not resist the English on the one hand or believe their promises on the other.
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Time Line
1763: Proclamation of 1763 1765: Stamp Act and Protest 1770: Boston Massacre
1773: Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
1774: Intolerable Acts; First Continental Congress
1775: Battles of Lexington and Concord; Washington appointed commander in chief
1776: Paine's Common
Sense;
Declaration of Independence
1
777: Articles of Confederation; Battle of Saratoga
178: French Alliance
1781: Articles of Confederation ratified; Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown 1783: Treaty of Paris
Land, Regulation, and Revolution
By establishing the Proclamation line, the British not only disturbed aspiring traders and disappointed the besieged Indians, but also alienated many of the new settlers in the west.
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Casimir Pulaski, of Poland, and the Marquis de Lafa
yette, of France, made exemplary contributions; Thaddeus Kosciusko, another Pole, organized the defenses of Saratoga and West Point; and Baron von Steuben, a Prussian captain, drilled the troops at Valley Forge, receiving an informal pro
motion from Benjamin Franklin to general.
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French ships commanded by Admiral Jean-Baptiste d'Estaing even mounted an unsuccessful attack on Newport, Rhode Island, before retreating to the West Indies.
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Arnold played on Washington's trust to obtain a command at the strategic fort West Point, on the Hudson, whereupon he intrigued to turn West Point over to British general Henry Clintori.
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France, having played a critical role in the victory, came away from the conflict with only a few islands in the West Indies and a terrific debt, which played no small part in its own revolution in 1789.
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These 'landed' states (Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and others) were opposed by 'landless' states (Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey), which insisted that the landed states relinquish all their claims west of the Appalachian crest to the Confederation as a whole.
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Like other westward-looking Americans, Beecher accepted the notion that the nation's des
tiny resided in the west-precisely where the frontier spread people out so much that a revival was the only way to reach them.
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The good news was that anyone who was dissatisfied with a state's religion could move west.
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And every year more adventurers and traders headed west, beyond the endless mountains.
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Beyond the Endless Mountains
The end of the American Revolution marked the beginning of a great migration to the West across the Appalachian Mountains.
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But the most common river route
and the most popular route to the West-was the Ohio.
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Nevertheless, few individuals did more to open the early West to British and American settlement than Daniel Boone.
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war hero, and community builder; loom large
in
the myth of the American West.
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Wildemess Trail through the
Cum
berland Gap to the Kentucky Bluegrass region,
where,,
in 1775, he established Btxmesborough, an outpost for his family and friends to settle the new West.
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Drawn
into
protracted court battles aver disputed land claims, Boone went bankrupt in 1798 and then moved: his large
family
to the unin- ' haltrted,expanses west
of
the
Mississippi
River He died near St. Charles Missouri, in 1820, having spent an eventful
.
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Like
all
Americans, he simulta-
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neously believed
in
ptagress and the Adiiance of capitalism and repubfican-political ansdtudOM W&he msy'have sornewaea wished t`hatAmmkM%voald'ahvays remain a'
a aparselghthabited '' ,
he knew diatpane
nca
could not ahd should
t
or stand=still, - Sources: Theodore Roosevelt,
The Winning of the West, 6
vols.
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Most impor
tant, Congress had to devise some form of territorial government plan to establish the rule of law in the trams-Appalachian West.
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They dealt with
a
huge question: if Congress, like the British Parliament before it, established colonies in the West, would they be subservient to the new American mother country or independent? Al
though the British model was not illogical, Congress rejected it, making the United States the first nation to allow for gradual democratization of its colonial empire
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As chair of Congress's territorial government committee, Thomas Jefferson played a major role in the drafting of the Ordinance of 1784.
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Jefferson proposed to divide the trans-Appalachian West into sixteen new states, all of which would eventually enter the Union on an equal footing with the thirteen original states.
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Surveyors were to plot the West into thousands of townships, each containing thirty-six 640-acre sections.
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To this day, an airplane jour
ney over the neatly surveyed, square-cornered townships of the American West proves the legacy of the Confederation Congress's Land Ordinance of 1785?s j
Moving to Indian policy in 1786, Congress set precedents that remain in place, the most important of which was the recognition of Indian 'right of
Soil,'
a right that could be removed only through military conquest or bona fide pur
chase.
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Rather, nationalist leaders wanted an orderly and, if possible, peaceful settlement of the West, which could only be accomplished if the lands obtained by Indians came j with unimpeachable title deeds.
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Only a few states-Texas, an indepen
dent republic that never went through territorial status; West Virginia, which was admitted directly to the Union during the Civil War; and Hawaii, which was an
nexed-did not come into the Union in this process.
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Fink gained such a mighty reputation during Americas surge west of the Appalachians that he was dubbed King of the River.
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Early rivermen lived hard lives; enduring the hazards of ice, fog,
snags,
sandbars, water-' falls, and even Indian attacks as they plied their trade
in
the early West.
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By the early 1800s, Fink owned and captained two boats headquartered at Wheel
ing, West Virginia.
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Working his way west, Fink's career paralleled that of American ex- - pansion into the Mississippi Valley,
while.
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Born out of wedlock in the British West Indies, he was saved from
a
life of obscurity
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when a wealthy friend recognized his talents and sent him to study in New York City at King's College (now Columbia University).''
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Westerners were outraged by Hamilton's initial fiscal policies and, later, by his 'whiskey tax,' a measure aimed to subsidize debt assumption by taxing west
em corn products at 25 percent.
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Most economic life in the West revolved around corn; corn whiskey even served as a medium of exchange in the cash-short territories.
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Spain laid claim south of Natchez and west of the Mississippi by virtue of a French grant and the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
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American conflicts with Britain were numerous: finalization of the disputed Maine-Canadian boundary; British evacu
ation of the Northwest posts (which they occupied in direct violation of the 1783 Treaty of Paris); overdue compensation to American slave owners (those whose slaves Britain had liberated during the war); and, most important, British ac
knowledgment of freedom of the seas-the right of American ships to trade with the French West Indies and continental Europe without fear of seizure and impressment.
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As for the French West Indies, the British begrudgingly agreed to allow small American ships (seventy tons or less) to do business with the French, whereas both England and the United States granted most-favored-nation trad
ing status to each other, providing both nations with the most lucrative trading partner possible.
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Taken to
gether, jay's and Pinckney's treaties opened the West for expansion.
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Because the northeastern part of the United States was more populous and enjoyed a more diverse economy than the agricultural South and West, this rural/urban dichotomy tended to manifest itself into a southern4estern versus northeastern party align
ment.
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How to Recognize a 1790s Republican or Federalist* , REPUBLICANS FEDERALISTS
Leaders:
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Washington, Adams, Hamilton,
Gallatin, Clinton, Burr Morris, Pickering, King, Knox
Origins: Anti-Federalist faction Federalist faction of
of Revolutionary Whigs Revolutionary Whigs
Regional Demo- South, West, New England and Middle
graphic Base: and Middle States States
Local Demo- Rural (farms, plantations, Urban (cities, villages, and river
graphic Base: and villages) valleys)
Economic Base: Farmers, planters, artisans, Merchants, financiers,
and workingmen tradesmen, and some exporting farmers
Class: Lower and middling classes Upper and middling classes led by planter elite
Ideology:
Radical Whig Moderate Whig
Localists More centralist
Agrarians Commercial
Promilitia Professional military
Less taxation, balanced budget Taxation and deficit
Egalitarian More elitist enlighted paternalists
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Strict construction Broad constructionist
(of Constitution)
Pro-French Pro-British
Expansionists Reluctant expansionists
Future Democratic Party Whig Party and
incarnations Modern Republican Party
to 1980: (GOP)
`These are generalizations only; there are exceptions, which nonetheless prove the rules.
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To further eliminate what they saw as an overly Federalist officer corps, the Jef
fersonians launched a radical experiment-a military academy to train a new 're
publican' officer class, thus producing a supreme irony, in that the United States Military Academy at West Point became a great legacy of one of America's most antimilitary presidents.
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By 1800, the Great Migration had begun in earnest, and American settlers poured into and settled the trans-Appalachian West.
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President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark west in search of scientific data to further man's knowledge and, at the same time, to explore what he dreamed would become an expanded agrarian American Republic.
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Other American adventurers headed west to explore the new Louisiana Ter
ritory.
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However, the most fascinating probe of the West in these early years came not from an official U.S. expedition, but from an illegal and treasonous foray into the West by none other than former vice president Aaron Burr.
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Some of America's most respected early lead
ers were duelists-indeed, in some parts of the South and West, dueling had be
come an essential component of political resumes.
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He wandered west;
in
1806; along with a hundred armed followers, Burr sailed in gunboats down the Ohio and Mis
sissippi to Natchez, Mississippi, where he was arrested and marched to Rich
mond, Virginia, to stand trial for treason.
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Appropriately, Monticello faced west, anticipating the future, not replaying the past.
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Pushing Madison and the nation toward war was a group of newly elected congressmen, many from the West, most notably Henry Clay of Kentucky.
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The Santa Fe trade lasted until 1844, the eve of the Mexican-American War, providing teamsters practice that perfected Plains wagoneering techniques, and their constant presence in the West chipped away at the great American desert myth.
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America naturally wanted no new European colony standing in its path west.
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America had its eyes set west-on the weak Mexican republic and its northern
most provinces-Texas, New Mexico, and California.
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But since the Louisiana Purchase was not a part of the ljnited States in 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made no provision for slavery west of the Mississippi, necessitating some new measure.
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Jackson exploded, 'The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver, but his end will be the same.„
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In his first message to Congress, Adams laid out an astounding array of plans, including ex
ploration of the far West, the funding of a naval academy and a national astro
nomical observatory, and the institution of a uniform set
of
metric weights and measures.
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Thus, to Calhoun's amazement and the dismay of southern and west
ern interests, the bill actually passed in May 1828, leaving Calhoun to attack his own bill! He penned (anonymously) the 'South Carolina Exposition and Protest,' and quickly the tariff was dubbed the Tariff of Abominations.
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Andrew Jackson, Indian Fighter
For several generations, Europeans had encroached on Indian lands and, through a process of treaties and outright confiscation through war, steadily acquired more land to the, west.
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,
When Jackson was elected, he announced a 'just, humane, liberal policy' that would re
move the Indians west of the Mississippi River; a proposal that itself merely copied previous suggestions by John C. Calhoun, James Monroe, and others.
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Faced with such realities, some Cherokee accepted the state of Georgia's of
fer of
$68
million and
32
million acres of land west of the Mississippi for 100 million acres of Georgia land.
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The Commissioner on Indian Affairs in his 1839 report astonishingly called the episode 'a striking example of the liberality of the Government,' claiming that 'good feeling has been preserved, and we have quietly and gently transported eighteen thousand friends to the west bank of the Mississippi' [emphasis ours] 6
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From the Indians' perspective, the obvious maxim With friends like these ...
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Originating in a resolution by Sena
tor Samuel Foot of Connecticut, which would have restricted land sales in the West, it evoked the ire of westerners and southerners who saw it as an attempt to throttle settlement and indirectly provide a cheap work force for eastern manu
facturers.
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Westerners applauded Benton's plan, but manufacturers thought it another tactic to lure fac
tory workers to the West.
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He was clearly the most recognizable, had a sterling reputation as an influence in both the House and Senate, had drafted the famous Missouri Compromise, and represented the West or, at least, sections of the West.
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Clashes with local anti-Mormon groups led to Smith's arrest and then assassination while he was in a Carthage, Illinois, jail in
1844,
so the Mormons prepared to move yet again, this time to the far West.
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Illinois College and Transylvania College appeared west of the Ap
palachians and eventually became respected institutions.
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^ Not one to miss an opportunity to enhance his legend (or his wallet), Crockett wrote, with some editorial help, an autobiography,
Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett
of
West
Tennessee.
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Like Hawkeye, the southwestern folk hero always found himself assist
ing American civilization by fighting Indians and foreign enemies and, above all, constantly moving west.
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When he stepped down, America was already headed west on a new path toward expansion, growth, and conflict.
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Later, eighteenth-century Americans fanned out into the trans-Appalachian West after the American Revolution, ex
ploring and settling the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
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It was from this perspec
tive, then, that Jacksonian Americans began to see and fulfill what they believed to be their destiny-to occupy all North American lands east and west of the Mississippi and Missouri river valleys.
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There were other, more common, economic motives interwoven into this anxiety, because the Panic of 1837 created a class of impoverished individuals ea
ger to seek new opportunities in the West.
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He did not mention that in Decem
ber he had also sent John C. Fr6mont with a column west and dispatched the Pa
cific Fleet to California, ostensibly 'in case' hostilities commenced, but in reality to have troops in place to take advantage of a war.
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Scott had no intention of slogging through the marshes that protected the eastern flank of Mexico City, but instead planned to attack by way of Chapultepec in the west.
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Westward Again
Beneath the simmering political cauldron of pro- and antislavery strife, pioneers continued to surge west.
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But for every Twain or Dana who made it to California, and left, and for every prospector who actually discovered gold, there were perhaps a hundred who went away broke, many of whom had abandoned their families and farms to seek the precious metal Even after the gold played out, there was no stopping the population increase as some discovered the natural beauty and freedom offered by the West and stayed.
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Scott's presence in Wisconsin Territory did not emancipate him ei
ther because, in Taney's view, the Missouri Compromise, as well as the North
west Ordinance, was unconstitutional in that it violated the Fifth Amendment; and, therefore, provisions of statute law over the territories were of no legal im
port.
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Had
all
railroad securities collapsed, such an argument might ring true, except that only certain railroad bonds plunged-those roads primarily running east and west.
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Investors easily saw this, and the bonds for the east-west roads collapsed.
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Buchanan sent the unarmed Star of
the West
to reprovision Fort Sumter, only to have South Carolina's shore batteries chase it off.
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In the ensuing brief artillery exchange in which Beauregard outgunned Anderson, his former West Point superior, four to one, no one was killed.
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Wisely, then, on June 19, 1861, western Unionists voted in a special convention declaring theirs the only legitimate government of Virginia, and the following June, West Virginia became a new Union state.
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'Let us save Virginia, and then save the Union,' proclaimed the delegates to the West Virginia statehood convention, and then, as if to underscore that it was the 'restored' gov
ernment of Virginia, the new state adopted the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia with the phrase 'Liberty and Union' added.z^
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West Virginia's defection to the Union buffered Ohio and western Pennsylva
nia from invasion the same way that keeping Kentucky's geographical location protected Ohio.
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Southern
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roads tended to run east and west, which was an advantage as long as the Missis
sippi remained open and Texas's cattle and horses could be brought in through Louisiana.
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Southern soldiers outnumbered Northerners significantly in the Mexican-American War, and West Point graduated a higher
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rate of Southern second lieutenants than Northern.
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Where Davis had graduated from West Point and fought
in
the Mexican War, Lincoln did not know how to write a military order.
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In
1861
few thinkers in either army clearly saw that only a comprehensive, two-front war in the west and Virginia would produce victory.
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War in the West
While coastal combat determined the future of the blockade and control of the eastern port cities, and while the ground campaign
in
Virginia dragged on through a combination of McClellan's obsessive caution and Confederate defensive
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strategy, action shifted to the Mississippi River region.
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Offensives in the West, where Confederates controlled Forts Donelson and Henry on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, held the key to securing avenues into Tennessee and north
ern Alabama.
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General Ulysses Simpson Grant, an engineer from West Point who had fought in the Mexican War, emerged as the central figure in the West: This was surprising, given that only a year earlier he had failed in a series of professions, struggled with alcohol, and wallowed in debt.
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The story in the West seemed grimly monotonous: the Confederates would mount an offensive (despite their supposedly defensive strategy), suffer propor
tionately greater losses, retreat, then escape as the Union commander dawdled.
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They were about to give up the
plum
of the West: Vicksburg.
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Swinging far to the west, away from Washington, the Rebel army entered Mary
land at, fittingly, Leesburg on September 5, 1862.
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Grant's piecemeal deconstruction of Rebel forces in the West was deadly efficient, but it did not constitute a good old 'whippin' of 'Bobby Lee.
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At the same time as he replaced McClellan in the East, Lincoln removed Gen
eral Don Carlos Buell in the West, also for lack of aggressiveness.
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Whatever the Union Army accomplished in the West seemed unimpressive to Washington politicians and war critics, if for no other reason than the press and the politicians were in Washington, not Cincin
nati.
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Given the trend in the West,, the Army of Northern Virginia could do only three things by May 1863 that might have produced the desired result of an independent CSA.
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Certainly the armies in the West would instantly rush reinforcements over.
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Seeking to intercept Lee's army, Meade had marched west into Maryland along the Taneytown Road.
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Lee came up from the southwest and had ordered other divisions to swing down from the north and west.
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Buford instantly perceived that the ground behind the city, along Cemetery Ridge with Culp's Hill on the west and the Round Tops
on
the east, provided an incredibly advantageous natural defensive position.
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By that time, Ulysses Grant commanded all the military operations in the West, and he promptly sent Sherman to open up the road to Atlanta-and the Deep South.
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West Point, and the young red-haired soldier eventually married Ewing's daughter, The Mexican War took him to California, where he later resigned and ran a bank-poorly.
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Grant named the red
haired Ohioan commander of all the armies in the West in the spring of 1864, with instructions to 'create havoc and destruction of all resources that would be beneficial to the enemy.'
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In the far West, small important battles there had ensured that New Mexico, Utah, and California would remain in the Union and supply the federal effort with horses, cattle, gold, silver, and other raw materials.
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But here was a new Federal General, fresh from the West, and so ill
informed as to the military customs in our part of the country that when the Battle of the Wilderness was over, instead of retiring to the north bank of the river and awaiting development of Lee's plans, he had the temerity to move by his left flank to a new position, there to try conclu
sions with us again.
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Moreover, as movement to the West revived, a standing military force was needed to deal with Indian hostilities.
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0
A comparison of income trends in the South and Mid
west from 1840 to 1880 reveals that a slight but steady decline in relative South
ern income in the 1850s cascaded into a thoroughgoing collapse in the year before Fort Sumter.
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West Virginia, which had formed in 1862 after seceding from Virginia, was recognized only reluctantly
Southerners were doing themselves no favors.
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had stud
ied at West Point where, before the war, criticism of slavery was prohibited.
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Seymour took the highest electoral state (his home state of New York), but Grant took most of the North and swept the Midwest and all of the West except Oregon.
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Events in the frontier West distracted Americans as well.
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If troops were needed in the West, they had to come from the South, weakening enforcement of open polls and control over the Klan.
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With each Union Army regiment redeployed to the West, Republican voters in the South lost a little more security.
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Else
where, Redeemer governments had crept back in, one at a time, beginning with Tennessee in 1869, West Virginia, Missouri, and North Carolina in 1870, Geor
gia in 1871, Alabama, Texas, and Arkansas in 1874, and Mississippi in 1875.
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But the far West, including Oregon, California, and Nevada, was late to report, and all went for Hayes.
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Clemens, in fact, moved west to escape the Civil War, a conflict in which he had served briefly and without distinction as a Confederate militiaman.
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In the 1860s, while the Civil War raged 'back east,' Clemens and a new generation headed west.'
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He ascribed to the West and western
ers specific character traits, most of them positive, but some unsavory Arguing that the West made Americans democratic, egalitarian, nationalistic, pragmatic, and adaptive, Turner also contended that frontier life made them coarse, violent, anti-intellectual, and wasteful of natural resources.
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And where Turner saw a violent, often barbaric West, the so-called Wild West may have been less violent in many respects than modern society.
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Nor was the West a Marxist model of class struggle: for every saloon brawl that started over 'class interests,' fifty began over simple insults or alcohol.
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Those who settled the West for better and, occasionally, for worse, tamed a wild frontier.
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Members of the famed Mormon handcart brigades literally walked the trail west, pushing their belongings in front o£ them.
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Meanwhile, sailboats and steam-powered ocean vessels brought immigrants to the West via the coast of South America and hard-working steamboats navigated rivers.
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Army engineers built or improved upon additional trails throughout the West, such
as
the Bozeman Trail, a supply route stretching north from Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming to the Mon
tana country.
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Beginning in 1852, Wells, Fargo & Company, California Stage's famed competitor, offered service out of San Francisco to most of the West's mining districts.
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The Iron Horse Races West
American railroads had already started to undercut prices
in
river traffic by the Civil War.
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Railroad entrepreneurs like Henry Villard, in fact, plotted the routes bf their lines to showcase the West's majesty, and when buffalo became a major attraction at Yellowstone Park, park officials attempted to ensure that pas
sengers could see the buffalo herds from the train.'
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The rush to mine the West's rich veins of gold, silver, and copper ore also.
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By the time lode mining had begun, the sourdoughs and their sluices had long departed, and many of those who had come west to strike it rich found themselves working for a paycheck in company towns like Butte, Montana, or Globe, Arizona.
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Although the Hudson's Bay Company had built a major logging and saw-milling operation in and around Fort Vancouver in 1827, smaller entrepreneurs also soon flocked to the West, drawn by the sheer abundance of natural resources.
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A much different industry developed on the plains where, from 1865 to 1885, the West witnessed the rise and fall of the Cattle Kingdom.
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Yet outside these railhead towns, and excluding a few of the episodes-bf gang-type violence, the numbers of capital crimes in the West appear to be well below current violent crime rates, so the Wild West was only moder
ately more violent than the rest of society'
Historian Roger McGrath studied the Sierra Nevada mining towns'ofAurora and Bodie, which had more potential for violence than other western towns.
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Total improved acreage in the United States rose from 189 million to 414 million acres, and although the Homestead grants were marked by fraud, the westward migration of legitimate farm families, and the economic and environmental impact of that migration, brought
a
stagger
ing change to the demography and environment of the American West.
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Only capital
ized firms could afford the equipment-steam-powered tractors, combines, har
vesters, and irrigation technology-that characterized successful farming west of the Mississippi.
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Farming, milling, lumbering, mining, ranching, and harvesting of natural resources in the AmeKican West thus exhibited striking consistency.
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Ultimately, the story of the harvesting of natural resources in the West is far from a tragic one.
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The settle
ment and expansion of the trans-Mississippi West exactly paralleled-the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent decline of small producers and farmsteads in America toward the end of the nineteenth century and reflected a growth in manufacturing.
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Without question, some of the generation that migrated west following the Civil War paid a hard price for modernity.
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Only one group was largely left out of either the rising prosperity or the expanding political freedom in the West-the original inhabitants.
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This, in turn, resulted in either the extermination or expulsion (farther West) of native Indian peoples.
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By the time of the Civil War, nearly all Indians east of the Mississippi were either dead, buttoned up on small reservations, or pushed west
ward, where this same cycle of relations had started anew.
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Indians of the trans-Mississippi West were diverse regional groups inhabiting the Plains, Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific coast.
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Relocated tribes-eastern Indians such as the Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Shawnee, and Miami-occupied tracts of land directly west of the Mississippi or in the Oklahoma Indian Territory.
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The Great Plains Indians-located in between the relocated Indians and West Coast; Plateau, and mountain tribes-constituted the most formidable barrier to white settlement.
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(Even the European honeybee had settled as far west as St. Louis by the early 1700s.)
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Farther west, in 1866, Lieutenant Colonel William J.'Fetterman, who had once boasted that he could 'ride through the whole Sioux nation with 80 men,' was leading a detachment of 80 men (ironically) to the relief of a wood
gathering train when a party of Oglala Sioux led by Red Cloud, and including a young warrior named Crazy Horse, annihilated his command in a precursor to the Custer massacre.'
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Territories west of the Mississippi slowly became states in the Union before the Civil War because of the politics of slavery.
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Louisiana (1812), Texas (1845), and California (1850) entered under special agreements tied to American foreign policy; the remaining territories (like Oregon and Nevada, which became states in 1859 and 1864, respectively) fell under Organic Acti resembling the North
west and Southwest Ordinances of 1787 and 1789.
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A lifelong Democrat and West Point engineering graduate, Stevens represented the best and worst of the territo
rial system.
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Although virtually no one saw the Far East as being of much importance in American security issues, the Spanish-American War had left the United States in control of Guam and the Philippines, creating a vast operating space for warships attempting to operate out of West Coast bases.
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Long before Alaska and
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Hawaii completed the final jigsaw that is the map of the modern United States, however, the West, as a concept, had come to an end.
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Barbed wire, railroads, and, eventually, the invisible strands of American civilization made the West America, and America, the West.
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Prairie Populism and National Radicalism
Despite abundant opportunities on the frontier, the fact was that life in the West, especially on the Plains, was hard.
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There was nothing new about this, except the setting, the West.
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An early response to the issue of low wages came from the Knights of Labor, an organization originally formed in Philadelphia in 1869, which moved west in the 1880s.
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Both a southern and western agrarian political crusade, Populism gained special strength west of the Mississippi River.
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though Bryan carried nearly every state in the agricultural South and the West, William McKinley still defeated him handily, 271 electoral votes to 176.
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CHA
PTER TWELVE
Sinews of Democracy, 1876-q6
Life After Reconstruction
W
r th reconstruction essentially over, the nation shifted its attention from the plight of the freedmen toward other issues: settling the West, the ise of large-scale enterprise, political corruption, and the growth of large cities.
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Agrarians, especially in the West and South, detected what they
thought was a deliberate campaign to keep them living on the margin.
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Flames leaped thirty to forty feet into the air, spreading throughout the West Side's downtrodden shacks,.
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Others argued, they could not even get mortgages because of the lack of competition, since banks and lending agencies were (in theory) so scarce in the West.
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This seemed to offer an opportunity for government action: if the government could be forced to pur
chase silver at fixed prices (higher than the market price) and coin it, silver min
ers would receive artificial price increases, and new silver coins would flood the West and South, providing a solution (it was thought) to the money question.
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Both the South and the West were at a disadvantage in that case, the South because the comp
troller of the currency was unlikely to give a bank charter to either former Con
federates or freedmen, and the West because of the sparse population.
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He attended Miami University
in
Ohio, the 'Yale of the West,' then settled with his wife, Car
rie, in Indianapolis.
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With this sectional division, from 1876 to 1896, the West, including parts of the Old Northwest as well as the new plains areas and Pacific states, became the fulcrum on which elec
tions swung.
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At the peak of the depression, Jacob Casey, an Ohio reformer, set out from Massillon, Ohio, with twenty thousand marchers for Washington, although some came from as far away as the West Coast.
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McKinley did not get a single electoral vote south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and only won California, North Dakota, Iowa, and Oregon out of the entire West.
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Four years later, in 1904, Republicans added Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado, giving them not only the solid North, but also the entire West, except for the former Confederate state of Texas.
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Only when Teddy Roo
sevelt stepped down did the Democrats again recover momentum in the West.
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Located two thousand miles west of California, the Hawaiian Islands (also called the Sandwich Islands) had played host to American sailors, traders, and missionaries in the 1800s.
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Even before his appointment to the Civil Service Commission, Roosevelt had started to develop a national name with his authorship of books on the West, including Hunting Trips (1885) and
The
Winning
of the West
(1889), as
well
as ten other works.
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For someone steeped in the romantic images of the West, Roosevelt should have favored the 'rugged individualism' of a Carnegie, but his reform impulse pos
sessed him.
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The ensu
ing events brought out Roosevelt's darker side, part of which he had revealed years earlier in his Winning of
the West.
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By 1930, eleven of the twelve blocks from Park Avenue and West 126th Street to West 153rd Street on the River were 90 percent black.
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Many came from Jamaica, Barbados, and other parts of the West Indies-more than 40,000 of them
joined in the 1920s by 45,000 Puerto Ricans in what was-called the Harlem ghetto.
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They were already shrinking, since all but Arizona and New Mexico had achieved statehood and most of the West had been settled by 1910.
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Reform impulse sprang up as much in the West as in the big cities of the East.
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But Field Marshal Foch, the commander in chief of the Allied troops, had another strategy that shifted the American First Army west to the Meuse-Argonne forest along a massive, and broad, front.
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In that respect, he displayed the classic Keynesian approach to economics that would soon captivate policy makers in the West: demand was what counted, not supply
Hoover won in 1928 because of Coolidge's peace and prosperity-always a tough row to hoe for a political opponent.
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Although no nationally known banks failed before 1930, state banks in the West and South had failed in droves in the decade.
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When voters went to the polls in November 1932, they handed Roosevelt a landslide victory, giving him the entire West and South.
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And grandiose these projects were: the PWA constructed the Lincoln Tunnel, the Triborough Bridge, and linked Florida's mainland with Key West.
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Despite the hardships caused by the New Deal's agricultural programs, farmers--especially in the South' and West-still remained loyal to the party.
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The U.S. presence in the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, and Hawaii meant that eventually Japan would have to negotiate or fight to expand her empire to the south and west.
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Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and part of Finland somehow '
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escaped the ire of the West.'
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suggestion that would have included British ships in the West Indies, noting that they would be antiquated.
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He also rejected as too big a burden, both on himself and the nation, the suggestion that the United States take the West Indies themselves.
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The USSR was the dominant power west of the Urals, and the United States was instantly accorded the role of leadership on the Western Front.
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In July 1939 the United States revoked the most-favored-nation trading status provided by a com
mercial treaty of 1911, and a month later, in a dispute little noticed in the West, the Soviets defeated Japanese troops in Mongolia.
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For example, by that time, the bulk of German air power in the East had been withdrawn to defend against Allied bombing in the West, and it is no surprise that only after German air power had been siphoned off to contest the Anglo-American bombers did the Soviets consis
tently win large offensive armored battles.
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By that time, Japan had eliminated virtually all Allied naval forces west of Pearl Harbor.
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American and British forces now closed in on Rommel from the west, while Brit
ish general Bernard Montgomery's Desert Rats of the Eighth Army pushed out from Egypt through Libya in the east.
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With the Americans coming down from the northeast (behind eke enemy), and the British and Americans from the west, the German Seventh Army was nearly encircled.
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Either
way,
the out
come in the West was no longer in doubt.
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By 1991 the Soviet sys
tem had collapsed, and the United States and the West could claim victor;c In a sense, this constituted the unfinished conclusion of World War Il's struggle against tyranny.
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The Warsaw Pact had a plan in place for an invasion of the West that included a barrage of tactical nuclear weapons just ahead of the So
viet advance.
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West Germany had limited access to the western sectors of Berlin while the Soviets controlled the other half of the city, making Berlin an outpost in enemy territory.
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On June
20, 1948,
Stalin sought to eliminate this potential threat by cutting off the railroad and traffic lines into West Berlin.
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The Soviet dictator realized he could not order any planes shot down-that would be an act of war-and accepted, temporarily, that he was beaten, removing Soviet barricades and roadblocks to Berlin from the West in May 1949.
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They produced such cultural monuments as Herman Wouk's The
Caine Mutiny,
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Leonard Bernstein's West
Side
Story, Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners, and Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp and Cinderella.
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Most of it was from north and east to south and west: between 1947 and 1960, a quarter of a'million Americans left the Great Lakes region and the mid-Atlantic/New England areas for the far West, Southwest, and Southeast.
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Midwesterners, who battled snows and rains all winter and spring, had trouble relating to water politics in the West, where titanic struggles over the Colorado River consumed lawmakers and citizens.
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West German Chancellor
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Konrad Aderiauer had encouraged the refugees coming across the borders, at a rate of a thousand a day by July 1961.
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More important, the Soviets had con
cluded that the advantages of space-based weaponry-especially given their rela
tive technological backwardness compared to the West-were minimal and that military money could best be used in nuclear missiles and submarines.
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West German Chancellor Ludwig
Erhard had impressed the idea on Kennedy during his visit to Germany
in
1961, instructing JFK to avoid the British model of high taxes, which had all but killed economic growth in England.
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Among those voting against it was prominent Democratic senator and a former member of the Klan; Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
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General William West
moreland, named the new army commander in Vietnam in March
1964,
was im
patient with the South Vietnamese operations against the Viet Cong and had introduced search-and-destroy missions by American' forces.
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He failed to carry a single large city, yet racked up California, Illinois, Ohio, and virtually all of the West except Texas.
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Restrictions on killing predators in the West grew so oppressive that ranchers engaged in the shoot-and-shovel approach, where they simply killed coyotes or wolves and buried the bodies.
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The war lasted only six days, allowing Israel to capture the Golan Heights near Galilee, the Sinai, and the West Bank-filling out the biblical boundaries promised the Jews.
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Carter had lost the entire West except for Texas, most of New England, and the key midwestem states of Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana.
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Israel had begun to sell land in the occupied territories (the West Bank, which is within Israel's
biblical borders) to its own settlers in 1979, and Camp David did nothing to ad
dress the problem in favor of either side.
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When a terrorist bombing in
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1986 of a West German disco frequented by American GIs was linked to the radical Islamic state Libya and its unpredictable dictator Muammar al Qaddafi, Reagan authorized the bombing of the terrorist camps.
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Gorbachev was immediately celebrated in the west
ern media as a new type of communist who, journalists contended, understood incentives.
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A dedicated Marxist-Leninist, married to a teacher of Marxism-Leninism, Gor
bachev had no intention of abandoning the dream of victory over the West.
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On November 14, 1983, after the Kremlin refused to withdraw its SS-20s, American cruise missiles and Pershings arrived in England and West Germany.
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By the time Gorbachev had become general secretary-and inherited both Af
ghanistan and the Euromissile crisis-he knew that he could not defeat the West.
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Czechoslovakia and Romania soon fol
lowed; then travel restrictions to West Germany from East Germany were lifted.
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The fact is that like most west
ern anticommunists, Bush had not anticipated that the USSR would simply fall apart.
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Springsteen naturally attracted thousands of free West Berliners, but hundreds of communist youths showed up on the other side of the wall to listen.
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Soviet spy Vasili Mitrokhin's smuggled notes revealed that popular music and radio broadcasts from the West produced 'unhealthy signs of interest in ...
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As Eastern European countries for the first time since 1939 engaged in free trade with the West, the resulting flow of goods and services eastward resembled the American entrance into western Europe at the end of World War 11.
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Increasingly, Asian and Indian en
gineers populated the engineering departments of major American universities; West Indian and Jamaican immigrants carved out thriving restaurant and grocery businesses in Atlantic seaboard cities; and former 'boat people' from Viet
nam populated the fishing fleet on the Gulf Coast.
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Pockets of hard-core liberalism remained-on the West Coast and in New England especially-but Clinton thrived largely by taking credit for conservative legislation, such as welfare reform, passed by the Republicans.
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The fatal flaw of bin Laden-like Hitler, Stalin, and even the nearsighted Spaniards of five hundred years ago--was that they fixed their gaze on the
physi
cal manifestations of the wealth of the West, failing to understand that wealth is
a mere by-product of other, more important qualities: initiative, inventiveness, hope, optimism, and above all, faith.
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Thomas Sowell,
Race
and Culture: AWorld View (NewYork: Basic Books, 1994),26; William H. McNeill,
The Rise of the
West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 667.
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Jack A. Goldstone, 'Cultural Orthodoxy, Risk, and Innovation: The Divergence of East and West in the Early Modern World,' Sociological
Theory,
Fall 1987,119-135 (quotation on 119).
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David S. Landes,
The
Unbound Prometheus: Technical
Change and
Industrial Development in Western
Europe
from 1750 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969); Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdsell Jr, How the West Grew Rich:
The
Economist Transforma
tion
of the
Industrial World (New York: Basic Books, 1986); and Larry Schweikart,
The
Entre
preneurial Adventure: A History
of Business
in the United States (Fort Worth'.
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Jack Sosin, Whitehall and the Wilderness: The Middle West in British Colonial
Policy,
1760-1775 (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1961).
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37, 84-87, 102-3; Francis S. Philbrick,
The
Rise
of the
West, 1763-1830 (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 104-33.
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Michael Allen, Congress and the West, 1783-1787 (New York: Edwin Miller Press), chap.
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2; Hernando DeSom,
The Mystery of
Capital:
Why
Capitalism
Triumphs
in
the
West and Fails Everywhere Else.(NewYorkr
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For land and Indian polity,
see see
Michael Allen,'The Federalists and the West, 1783-1803,' Western
Pennsylvania
Historical Magazine, 61, October 1978, 315-32 and 'Justice for the Indi
ans: The Federalist Quest, 1786-1792,' Essex Institute Historical
Collections,
122, April 1986, 124-41.
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and Economic Development in Industrial New England (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Larry Schwiekart, Banking in the American South from the Age
of
Jackson to Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987); Lynne Pierson Doti and Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American West from the Gold Rush to.
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 657-58; Alexander DeConde, This Affair of Louisiana (NewYork: Charles Scribner's, 1976).
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Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of theAmeric in West (NewYork: Simon & Schuster, 1996).
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William H. Goetzmann, Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959), and his New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery (New York: Viking, 1986).
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(New York: Columbia University Press, 1960) and his Canals and American Economic Development (New York: Co
lumbia University Press, 1961), and
his The
Government and the Economy 1783-1861 (India
napolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967); Robert Shaw, Erie Water West: A History
of
the
Erie
Canal, 1792-1854 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968); Ronald W Filante, 'A Note
on the
Economic Viability of the Erie Canal, 1825-60,' Business History
Review,
48, Spring 1974, 95-102;
21.
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John Majewski, 'Who Financed the Transportation Revolution? Regional Divergence and In
ternal Improvements in-Antebellum Pennsylvania and Virginia,' Journal
of
Economic History, 56, December 1996, 763-88; John F. Stover, American
Railroads
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) and his Iron
Road
to
the
West (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978).
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Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge, Westward
Expansion:
A History of the American West, 6th ed.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Virgil A. Lewis, How West Virginia Was Made (Charleston, West Virginia: News-Mail Company, 1909).
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The Ox
ford History
of
the American West (NewYork: Oxford, 1994).
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Carlos Schwantes, Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West (Seattle: University of Wash
ington Press, 1999).
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John D. Unruh, The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993) documented only 350 deaths from In
dian attacks between 1840 and 1860.
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Historians and the American West (Lincoln: Univer
sity
of
Nebraska Press, 1983); Donald Worster, Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); John Opie,'The Environment and the Frontier,' in Roger L. Nichols, ed.,
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Richard White, 'Its Your Misfortune and None of My Own': A History of the American West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991); Patricia Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (New York: Norton, 1987); Douglass C. North, Growth and Welfare in the American Past (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966); Ronald Coase, 'The Problem of Social Cost,' Journal
of
Law and Economics, 3 (1960),1-44.
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John D. Haegar, 'Business Strategy and Practice in the Early Republic: John Jacob Astor and the American Fur Trade,' Western Historical Quarterly, May 1988, 183-202;'Hiram M. Chit
tenden, The American Fur Trade
of
the Far West, 3 vols.
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On banking, see Lynne Pierson Doti and Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American West from the Gold Rush to Deregulation (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), passim.
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eds, Oxford History of the American West, 237-73; Maruice Frink, et al.,
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Gerald McFarland, A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West (New York: Pantheon, - 1985).
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Richard White, 'Me Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the 18th and 19th Centuries,'Journal ofAmerican History, September 1978, 319-43.
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Robert G. Athem, William Tecumseh Sherdan and the Settlement
of
the West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956).
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Clyde Milner, 'National Initiatives' in Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A O'Connor, and Martha Sandweiss, eds., The Oxford History
of
the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 174.
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Oxford
History of the American West, 565-601.
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Encyclopedia ofAmerican Business
History and Biography: Banking and Finance in 1913, xi-xxxi; Lynne Doti and Larry Schweikart, Banking in the American West from Gold Rush to Deregula-
NOTES 875
tion; Larry Schweikart, 'U.S.
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(James West Davidson, et al.,
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Herbert Hoover, American
Individualism
(West Branch, Iowa: Herbert Hoover Presidential Li
brary Association, 1971 [1922]).
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Harry R. Borowski, A Hollow Threat: Strategic Air Power and Containment Before Korea (West
port, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982).
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As Rebecca West explained, 'Everyone knew there
were
Communists, but very few people really
believed
it' (Rebecca West, The
New
Meaning
of
Treason [New York: Viking, 1964], 236-37), and as Leslie Fiedler put it, liberals seemed to think that Communists 'were,
despite
their shrillness and bad manners, fundamentally on the side of justice'
(Leslie
Fiedler, 'Hiss, Chambers, and the Age of Innocence,' Commentary, August 1951, 119).
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William Lunch and Peter Sperlich, 'American Public Opinion and the War in Vietnam,' West
ern Political Quarterly, March 1979,21-24; John Mueller, War, Presidents and Public Opinion (New York: John Wiley, 1973); Leslie H. Gelb and Richard K Betts, The Irony of Vietnam:
The
System Worked (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1979).
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Seweryn Bailer, 'The Soviet Union and the West: Security and.
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On
Point:
The United
States Army in
Operation
Iraqi Freedom (Fort Leavenworth, KA: Combat Studies Institute Press, 2003); Bing West and Ray L. Smith,
The
March Up:
Taking
Baghdad with the I st Marine
Division
(New York: Bantam Books, 2003); Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales Jr.,
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Bing West, No True Glory: A
FiontlineAccount
of the Battle for Fallujah (New York: Bantam, 2005).
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Davidson, James West et al.
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Jefferson on, 135-36 national, 535, 633
war, of Germany, 545-46 Decatur, Stephen, 168 December 7, 1941, 591, 595
Declaration of Independence,26,530 adoption of, 81 Christianity and, 71 Common Sense and, 79-81
drafts of, 81
indictment of slavery in, 115
Declaration of Rights
of English Protestants, 36-37
Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1774), 70 Declaration of the United Nations, 604
Deere, John, 550 Delaware River, 79 Delaware Tea Party, 68 De La Warr, Lord Thomas
West, 18 Delta Force, 817 DeMille, Cecil B., 540 Democracy, development of, 90,828
Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 39
t
97-98
Democratic National Committee, 587, 779, 794
Democratic party, 219, 464, 465, 478, 491, 501, 506,512
in 1860 election, 295-96 founding of, 197-98 goals of, 199-200
Irish in, 255
and labor unions, 566-70 structure of, 199 Demographics, of America in 1800, 156
Department of Agriculture, 550
Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), 542, 650, 675 Department of Homeland Security, 815 Department of War, 161 Desegregation.
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See Race relations; Segregation De Strict, Pierre, 246 Dewey, George, 468-69, 470
Dewey, Thomas A., 617, 639-40
Dias, Bartholomeu, 3 Diaz, Porfirio, 502, 508 Dickinson, John, 65, 93 Dingley Tariff, 480 Dinwiddie, Robert, 54 Direct representation, 95 Direct Tax of 1798, 153 Discourse to Prave a Passage
by the
North-West
to Cathaia and the East
Indies
(Gilbert), 14 Discourse on
Western
Planting (Hakluyt), 14
Disease,
158,427-28 Disney, Walt, 517, 540, 571 Divorce, 157,226,734-35 Dobyns, Henry, 8 Doctrine of Nullification, 152,210-11,212 Dodd, S.C.T., 451
Dole, Robert, 794 Doolittle, Jimmy, 610 Douglas, Lewis, 517, 560, 561,562
Douglas, Stephen, 265, 267,272
2
277-78, 283-84,287,296, 299-300
in 1860 election, 296, 297,298
Lincoln and, 288-89 Douglass, Frederick, 227-28,258,264, 290,327-28,329 Doyle, John, 253 Draft, 310, 342 Drake, Francis, 11, 14
Dred Scot ruling of 1857, 105,264
Drew, Daniel, 382 Drexel, Anthony, 433 Drift and Mastery
(Lippmann), 460 Drudge, Matt, 795-97 Drugs, 702-1
Duane, William J., 216
Du Bois, W E.B., 484, 486, 487
Duels, 167
Due process, 91, 126 Dukakis, Michael, 765-66 Duke, James B., 434 Duke of York
See
James 11 Dunmore, Lord, 60, 68 Durant, Thomas, 382-83 Durant, William, 531, 539 Durbin, Richard, 825 Dutch, in America, 34-35
Early, Jubal, 359
East India Company, 15, 67 Eastman, George, 367 Eaton, Peggy, 206
Eaton, William, 168 Economic crisis, 725-31 Economic policy
of Adams, John Quincy, 204 of Bush, G.H.W, 772-74 of Bush, G.W, 820-21 of Carter, 739
of Cleveland, 443 ofClinton, 778-79, 783-84,786-91
of Eisenhower, 649-50 ofFord, 728-31,736-38 of Grant, 382-84
of Hamilton, 135-37 of Harrison, 451-53 ofJackson, 209-13 of Jefferson, 160-61 of Madison, 171-72 ofNixon, 707-10,726 of Reagan,748-51
of Roosevelt, F.D., 558-62,602,636-37 of Roosevelt, T, 487 of Sherman, 442
of Tyler, 235
of Van Buren, 232
INDEX 911
Economic progress, 458-59,535 Economic Recovery Act, 748
Economy
Germanys impact on, 729
Japan's impact on, 729-30
Eddy, Mary Baker, 222, 460, 461
Edison, Thomas, 540 Edison Electric, 494 Edmunds Act of 1882, 415 Education.
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Se4 also Iroquois Confederacy alliances with, 53-54 American colonists and, 26 assimilation of, 406-7, 411-13
in Carolinas, 23-24 in Civil War, 304 Congress dealing with, 94-95
cultural influence of, 41, 404-5
disease and, 405-6 fur trade and, 13 interactions with, 403 Jackson and, 207-9
policy on, 104, 406 populations of, 7-9 reservations, 406-7 warfare with, 31-32, 408-11
in West, 403-4 Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), 786 Industrial Revolution, 136-37,419 Industry, 437
in South, 259-60,280 technology in,188-89 Infant mortality in American colonies, 24-25
Inflation, 181, 217, 419, 735,749
In His Steps (Sheldon), 498 Innes, George, 229 Intermarriage, of Spanish
settlers, l1 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, 759 International Economic Conference, in Geneva, 543 Internet, 788-89, 824-25 Interstate Commerce Act, 478'
Intolerable Acts of 1774, 68 Iran, 742,761,826
Iraq
Bush, G.H.W and, 768-772
Bush, G.W and, 817-19, 820-23,825-26 Kuwait invaded by, 768-72 Iraqi Interim Government Council, 826
ICBMs (intermediate range ballistic missiles), 672 Irish
in Democratic party, 255 in draft riots, 342 famine and, 254
Iron curtain
Churchill relating to, 634-37
communism and, 634-41 Roosevelt, F.D. relating to, 634-37
Soviet Union and, 634-37
of Stalin, 63,4-37, 640, 642
Iroquois Confederacy, 54, 58
in Revolutionary War, 76-77 ' Isolationism, 580-86, 596 Israel, 724-25, 769 Isthmus of Panama, 481 Italy, 493
Iwo Jima, 624,625
Jackson, Andrew, 173, 176, 204-5,209
in 1824 election, 203 in 1828 election, 205 in 1832 election, 216 BUS and, 213-16 economic policyof, 209-13
in
Florida, 192 impact of, 218 Indians and, 207-9 on money, 214-15
at New Orleans, 176-77 in office, 200
as president, 205-6 Jackson, Caleb, 306 Jackson, Helen Hunt, 406 Jackson, Jesse, 765, 793 Jackson, Thomas J., 310, 333
Jacksonian perioMacksonianism, 493,497
James 1, 16, 18, 27 James 11, 34-35, 3671 James, William, 460, 461, 486
Jamestown,14-15,18, 19-20
disease in, 17 Jamieson, Perry, 311 Japan.
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See also Atomic bomb
of mass destruction (WMD), 804, 821, 822 Weaver, James B., 420, 453-54
in 1892 election, 420, 453-54
Weaver, Randy, 785 Webster, Daniel, 211, 212, 235, 236, 239, 267, 465
Webster, Noah, 228 Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 236
Weimar Republic, 117, 545, 578
Weizmann, Chaim, 724 Welfare, 370-71,538,565, 687-89
Wells, Henry, 395 Wells, Madison, 390 Wells Fargo, 395 Welsh revival, 497 Wesley, John, 222 West, Benjamin, 40 Western Federation of
Miners (WFM), 418 Western Hemisphere, unrest in,482-83 West India Company, 34 Westinghouse, 540 Westmoreland, William, 693 Weyerhaeuser, Frank, 398-99,435,828 Weyler, Valeriano, 465 What
the
Social Classes Owe
to Each Other
(Sumner), 445 Wheeler, William A., 389-90 Wheelock, Eleazar, 98-99 Whigs, (American) Revolutionary era, 89-91;94
Whigs (English), 36, 49, 71 Whigs, 219-20, 235-36, 265,270
Whiskey Rebellion, 138-39 White, Ellen G., 222 White, John, 14 White6eld, George, 43-44 Whitehall, 77
Whitewater Development Company, 781-82 Whitman, Marcus, 246 Whitman, Walt, 245, 349 Whitney, Asa, 272 Whitney, Eli, 157, 188, 495 Wickersham, George, 490 Wildcat banks, 217 -Wiley, Harvey, 527 Wilhelm (kaiser), 496, 512, 520
Wilkes, Charles, 318, 359 Wilkinson, James, 167
Will to
Believe, The (James), 460
Willey, Kathleen, 796 William of Orange, 36-37, 52
Williams, Roger, 30,32-34 Willkie, Wendell, 587 Wilmot, David, 242 Wilmot Proviso, 266, 267 Wilson, Henry lane, 508 Wilson, James, 114 Wilson, Woodrow, 69,460,
461, 464, 491, 495 and 1912 election, 458, 463,501,503
and 1916 election, 494, 512
background of, 501-3 Darwinian views of, 503 foreign policies of, 508-32
Fourteen Points of, 521-25
932 INDEX
Wilson, Woodrow
(cont.)
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on 9/11, 803, 811-13
income tax relating to, 1993 bombing of, 786,
506-8 801
Mexico and, 508-10, 513 World War 1, 487 progressivism of, 503-8,
526,532
tariffs relating to, 506-8
Winning of
the West,
The
(Roosevelt), 474, 481 Winter Soldier Investigation, 824 Winthrop, John, 29, 30, 32 Wirz, Henry, 357 Wisconsin, 824 Witherspoon, John, 39, 68, 125
Withholding taxes, 602-3 WMDs, 804, 821, 822 Wobblies, 418
Wolfe, James, 55-56 Women
rights of, 492
suffrage of, 498, 530-32 in workforce, 731, 735-36
'6men Rebel, The
(Sanger), 531
Women's Arniy Corps (WACS), 597 Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 528 Womens Peace Party, 512 Wood, James, 187-88 Wood, Leonard, 469,470 Woodstock, 703-4
Worcesterv.
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Do you see any potential shift? The reason I ask this is because I started my radio program in 1988, and in the 16-plus years since, the left wing has lost its monopoly in the media.
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And the overstuffed left wing of the academy seems to be one of them.
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RUSH:
That explains why virtue cannot be included in the left wing's pursuit of historical facts.
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INTRODUCTION xxiii
It is not surprising, then, that
so
many left-wing historians miss the boat (and miss it, and miss it, and miss it to the point where they need a ferry schedule).
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By supporting the compromise, Fillmore also ensured that the antislavery wing of the Whig party would block his nomination in 1852, in favor of Winfield Scott.
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Left-wing historians have attempted to portray Lincoln as a racist because he did not immediately embrace full voting and civil rights for blacks.
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Southerners wanted a clear statement that the federal government would protect property rights in slaves, whereas the Douglas wing wanted a loose interpretation allowing the courts and Congress authority over the territories.
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Left-wing revisionists have argued that Lincoln freed the slaves mainly because he needed the black troops to feed his war machine-that only with the addition of African American soldiers could the North have won.
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Un
like Grant, however, Sherman was already a Republican and a member of the Radical wing of the Republican Party that opposed slavery on moral grounds.
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The statistics give lie to the left-wing
notion that business likes wars.
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A Democrat, Johnson had no leverage at
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all with the Republicans (least of all the Radical wing); a Southerner, he had no goodwill upon which to draw from either section, each for its own reasons eyeing him with suspicion.
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Left-wing historians often leap to make the land issue solely about race.
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Since no one knew exactly where the Indians were encamped in June of 1876, the army's elaborate plan im
mediately began to unravel when Indians attempted to engage each wing sepa
rately.
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Patronage also
dominated public discourse because of an aggressive wing of the Republican Party dedicated to overthrowing what it saw as vestiges of Jacksonianism.
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To offset the reformers and placate the Conkling/Stalwart wing, Chester A. Arthur received the vice presidential nomination-a personal affront to Hayes, who had dismissed him.
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Once in office, Cleveland announced he would enforce the Pendleton Act scrupulously, finding allies in the new reform wing of the Republican Party.
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Other oppo
nents, however, including the Progressive wing of the party led by Robert La Fol
lette, Hiram Johnson, and Borah, had voted against going to war in the first place, and continued to reject any postwar European involvement.
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Had the conservationist wing of the Republican Party not become aware of the leases, which it opposed, and thus made a public issue of them, it is unlikely that the newspapers would have picked up on the is
sue'or that the public would have exhibited such outrage.
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Hoover thus in-, herited the Teddy Roosevelt/William Howard Taft wing of the Republican Party.
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To ap
pease the party bosses, however, Roosevelt ditched left-wing vice president Henry Wallace, who was certainly the most radical politician ever to hold that of
fice, and replaced him with someone more politically appealing, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.
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Truman never had the slightest hesitation about using the bomb, leaving left
wing scholars to scour his memoirs and letters for even the slightest evidence of second thoughts.
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Not only had the Republicans whipped the Democrats, but they also virtually annihilated the liberal wing of the Democratic machine, sending 37 of 69 liberal Democrats in Congress down to defeat, shat
tering the Left-laborite coalition that had sustained FDR.
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Taken under the wing of Thomas J. Pendergast's Kansas City Democratic machine, Truman won election as a judge on the Jackson County Court in 1922, with the unusual job (for a jurist) of overseeing the Kansas City road system and supervising its (largely corrupt) paymasters.
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By the time Truman replaced him, Wallace was leader of the progressive/socialist wing of the Democratic Party.
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Stalin's move came at a key point in the election cycle-just as Truman was engaged in a tough reelection fight not only against the Republican, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, but also against two renegades from his own party: Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, who headed a states' rights wing of the Democratic
Party, and Henry Wallace, who appealed to the party's disaffected radicals as the Progressive Party candidate.
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Seeking to blunt attacks from the McCarthy wing of the GOP, Ike named Congressman Richard Nixon of California as his running mate.
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The visit included a ten-mile motorcade through Dallas, an area termed by Kennedy 'nut country' The Kennedys were greatly troubled by what they saw as the right wing.
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But the lunatic fringe of the right wing was only one group after JFK's scalp.
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Most of those in this echelon of the dove wing consisted of die-hard com
munists, dropouts, social outcasts, militant anti-American revolutionaries, or disaffected youths who, whatever their education; were ignorant of the most basic elements of foreign policy.
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Another dove wing, the liberal Democrats, generally embraced John Ken
nedy's original vision of 'paying any price, bearing any burden' to advance de
mocracy, but they nonetheless saw Vietnam as the wrong war in the wrong place.
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To this pragmatic wing, the general strategy remained sound, but Southeast Asia already looked like a quagmire the liberals wanted to avoid because it also threat
ened to suck funds from Great Society social programs.
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Among the hawk wing of the Democratic Party, the labor unions provided consistent support for the war.
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In an absurd scene of supreme irony, suburban radicals such as Tom Bell of Cornell faced harassment and taunting from the au
dience at the 1968 SDS convention when members of the Progressive Labor wing howled curses at him for being too anticommunist.
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185
T
o
replace Agnew, Nixon had appointed Michigan Congressman Ger
ald Ford, a moderate of the Rockefeller wing of the GOP and a person sure to draw little criticism from Democrats.
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Arab states quickly de
nounced the agreement, and the fundamentalist wing of Islam threatened to boil over.
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Nixon and Ford, at best, were moderates on
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most hot-button conservative issues, and other potential Republican alternatives to Jimmy Carter-Nelson Rockefeller, for example-represented the blue-hair wing of the country-club GOP, which offered no significant change in philosophy from the Georgian's.
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Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, the liberal governor of Massachusetts, had continued the left-wing tilt of the party.
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A new rival wing of the party, the Democratic Lead
ership Council (DLC), had originated from strategist Al From's study of the 1984 election disaster, which argued that the party had lost the middle-class vote and needed to move toward the center.
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Right-wing conspiracy theorists fretted about Bush's involvement in the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, whereas left-wing paranoids saw the new world order as the final triumph of a greedy oil cartel.
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characterized the Contract as an 'all-out assault on budget deficits and radical reductions
NOTES 897
in welfare programs,' and succeeded because Democrats' arguments were 'drowned in the right-wing tornado that roared across the land.
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They are finally winning, and it is giving them some confidence after 40 years of wandering in the desert, so to speak, being laughed at and im
pugned on television.
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He gave the authority to recruit troops to the colonial assemblies and promised to reimburse American
merchants and farmers for wartime supplies taken by the military, winning him
self popular acclaim in the colonies.
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The French fleet under Admiral Fran~oise Joseph de Grasse lured away the Royal Navy, which secured Cdrnwallis's flanks at Yorktown, winning at Sandy Hook one of the few great French naval victories over England.
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Greene embraced Washington's view that avoiding defeat was as important as winning battles, becoming a master at what Russell Weigley calls 'partisem war,' conducting a retreat designed to lure Cornwallis deep into the Carolina interior.
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More important, the final document indeed represented all: 'In 560 roll-calls, no state was always on the losing side, and each at times was part of the winning coalition.'
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After winning his duel-and losing what little reputation he had left-Burr continued his machinations without pause.
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Jackson and his vice president, John Calhoun, coasted into office; winning 178 electoral votes to Adams's 83, in the process claiming all the country except the Northeast, Delaware, and Maryland.
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9
o
Upon winning, Jackson withdrew all federal deposits from the BUS, remov
ing its main advantage over all private competitors.
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I
While the military was winning early victories in the field, Polk engaged in a clever plan to bring the exiled dictator who had massacred the defenders of the Alamo and Goliad back from exile in Cuba.
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Winning a commanding
254
electoral votes to Scott's
42,
with a 300,000-vote popular victory, Pierce dominated the Southern ballot
ing.
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Winning a seat
in Congress in 1847, his entire campaign expenditure was seventy-five cents for a single barrel of cider.
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Douglas, despite winning nearly
30 percent of the popular vote, took only Missouri and part of New Jersey; this was a stunning disappointment, even though he had known the Southern vote would abandon him.
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The valor and tenacity of the Rebels, winning battle after battle with smaller forces and holding off the North for four years, is a testament to both their commitment to the Confederate cause (as they saw it) and, more im
portant, to their nurturing as Americans, themselves steeped in the Western way of war.
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Winning the governor's seat, Chase and the legislature at
tempted to expand the state's free banking laws, providing a harbinger of his financial expertise as treasury secretary.
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After winning the mayorship of Greenville as a Democrat, Johnson successfully ran for seats in the Tennessee House, then the Tennessee Senate, then, in 1843, he won a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he supported fellow Ten
nessee Democrat James Polk and the Mexican War.
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After four consecutive terns in the House, Johnson ran for the governorship of Tennessee, winning that posi
tion twice before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1857.
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They concluded that winning the White House again in 1868 would require someone not obviously as
sociated with their faction and someone the public trusted.
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Winning a sec
ond term in 1870, Hayes especially worked to curb local taxes, which had risen five times faster in Ohio than state taxes, and sought to further reduce state in
debtedness.
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The old adage about winning the battle but losing the war is most applicable in the case of Custer's last battle.
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After all, many of the best practitioners of spoils asked, what other reason for winning office was there? Starting with an investigation
of
the New York custom
house and its excesses under Chester A, Arthur (whom Hayes removed in July 1878), Hayes sought to bring the patronage monster to heel.
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In 1880, Garfield was elected to the Senate and worked to secure the presidential nomination for Sherman, but before he could even take his seat, he agreed to be the Republican nominee, winning after 36 ballots.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
three of the winning cards in the game of commercial greatness, to wit-iron, steel, and coal.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
McKinley beat the Democrat, William Jennings Bryan, worse than he had in 1896, winning the popular vote 7.2
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5
%
Roosevelt had' succeeded at everything he ever attempted-improving his physi
cal strength and athletic prowess, courting and winning his wife, leading men in combat, and running for office.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Using the court system, NAACP lawyers waged a long struggle to eliminate state voting laws designed to prohibit blacks from voting, winning an important victory in the
Guinn v.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Ethnic minorities like the Japanese and blacks, discriminated against at home, brushed off their mistreatment to enlist, winning battle honors.
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Democracy's Industrial Tsunami
Aside from the obvious self-sacrifice of the soldiers and sailors who fought, the key contribution to winning the war came not from Hollywood or Tin Pan Alley, but from American industry, which had unleashed a tidal wave of war materials, paid for with $80 billion from Uncle Sam.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Again, however, only a narrow margin sepa
rated victory from defeat: a handful of subs had come close to winning the war in the Atlantic.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
In each case, the goal re
mained winning the war as quickly as possible.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
klitler made clear he would elevate destruction of the Jews above even winning the war.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Thus, the two nonmilitary issues that could have shaped American strategy in World War 11, Soviet empire building and the Holocaust, both turned on the decision by the U.S. government-from the president through the Ghief of staff to Eisenhower-to concentrate narrowly upon winning the war as quickly as pos
sible.
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6
The key to winning the cold war, Kennan wrote, lay in a strategy of 'containment,' in which the United States did not seek to roll back Soviet gains
as
much as to build a giant economic/military/political fence around the communist state so that it could not expand farther.
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McCarthy, whose name has sloppily been linked to hyste
ria and totalitarianism, was a complex figure
39
The last major American political figure raised in a log cabin, the Irish Democrat had switched parties after the Second World War, winning a judgeship, then the Senate seat that had belonged to Robert LaFollette.
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Nineteen fifties Americans received the benefit of the largest one-generation jump in educational achievement in the nation's history; they had learned the im
portance of work, yet had worked less outside the home than any other group; and as a generation they had an uncanny knack for backing the winning candi
date in every single major election.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
King promised his enemies to 'wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.'
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3
Friendship, however, did not stand in the way of winning.
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Typical reports had Kennedy winning by about 120,000 votes.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Upon his discharge, Jack entered politics, winning a House seat, then taking the 1952 Massachusetts Senate seat.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
After JFK's election, American liberals running the war emphasized 'winning the hearts and minds of the people' through material prosperity and general progress.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
He smashed the Ari
zonan, winning by more than 430 electoral votes and garnering 16 million more popular votes.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Nixon crushed McGovern in November, sweeping all but 17 electoral votes and winning nearly bl percent of the popular vote (including 56 percent of the blue-collar ballots).
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After a monstrously failed presidency, Carter became a regular on the international peace circuit, finally winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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He entered Georgia politics, winning the governorship in 1970, which gave him all the qualifications-
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except for foreign policy experience to hold the highest office.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Carter angered conservatives by winning Senate ratification of the treaty re
turning the Panama Canal Zone to the nation of Panama and announcing support of black majority rule in several African states.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Yet whenever Carter distorted Reagan's record or tried to portray him as an extremist, the Gipper smiled, cocked his head, and quipped, 'Well, there you go again,' five words that Reagan credited with winning him the election.
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The new-look court (with Anthony Kennedy eventually winning Bork's slot) reversed some two decades of legal liberalism and criminals'-rights decisions.
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On election day in the United States, November 4, 1988-when Reagan's successor, George H. W Bush was winning his own landslide-a million people marched in East Berlin.
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Ironically, the real story of the 1988 election was not about what had hap
pened on the winning Republican side, but about the troubling changes that had taken place inside the losing camp and their long-range implications.
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Her personal demeanor, however, was abrasive and irritating and doused any hopes she had of winning a political seat on her own early in her life.
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Focused on 'soul winning' through modem methods contemporary music, abundant church athletic and musical activities, large youth programs-these churches kept two groups who had abandoned the mainstream churches years earlier-males and young people.
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(The, winning design technically would be taller than either of the previous towers.)
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Terry Moran, the White House correspondent for ABC, dourly asserted, 'I think the bad guys are winning.'
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Dick Moms,
Behind the Oval Office: Winning the
Presidency in
the Nineties
(New York: 'Ran
dour House, 1997), 100; Elizabeth Drew,
Showdoum: The
Struggle Between
the Gingrich Con
gress
and the Clinton White House
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 63.
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A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
The other students were more reasonable, but none had anything good to say about
Bias.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
See, they could say (if not out loud, then certainly in private when they were congrat
ulating themselves on their goodness, in the company of other wonderful journalists),
we
did something about Amer
ica's ugly racial history.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
He told us that in twenty years of going to the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, he never-not even once-heard his minister say the crazy things we heard on videotape-and the mainstream media refused to press him on it.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
So to some extent, liberals in the media are right when they say, 'Bias is in the eye of the beholder.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
They use it to dismiss their critics, to say, 'If you think we're biased this proves that you're the one who's really biased.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
It's not just that I find what they say annoyingly predictable, it's also that I don't like the way they look down their elite noses at 'ordinary' Americans.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And when Obama preemptively asserted that Republi
cans would use his race against him, that they would say, 'He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Interesting, I say, because these were the very same sensitive journalistic souls that worried about McCain and Palin stirring up 'Weimar-like rage' and caus
ing a 'violent escalation of rhetoric,' as Frank Rich warned in the
New York Times;
or that they just might be ushering in the 're-emergence of the far right as a power in Ameri
can politics,' as E. J. Dionne fretted in the Washington Post; or that they were appealing to crowds 'gripped by insane rage,' as Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman put it in the
New York Times.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Obama and the media will simply say, 'The problems in the economy are much
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53
worse than we knew.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Obama will say, 'We cannot close Gitmo and get out of Iraq as soon as I would have liked.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And what would the media say if on September 11,
2001,
of all days, a story came out in the
New York
Times in which this bomber said his only regret from those days was that he didn't do more?
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
What would the media say about all that?
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
They weren't shilling or covering for Obama, they say.
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Needless to say, editors have every right to decide
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what they think real news is.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Sure, if he sounded like Harry Reid nobody would care what he had to say.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
The media insisted that Obama was not about
exploiting
racial division but instead was the one who could
bring us all together-and
therefore there was no more to say.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
The Times did note that 'some say' the church's teach
ings 'are overly Afrocentric to the point of excluding whites.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And the story quoted an Obama spokesman as say
ing, 'Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church, but because of the type of attention it was receiving on blogs and conservative talk shows, he decided to avoid having statements and beliefs being used out of context and forcing the entire church to defend itself.'
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On January 18, 2008, the
New York Post
reported, 'The pastor whom Barack Obama calls his spiritual guide and mentor took a stunning shot at Bill Clinton this week, say
ing the ex-president did the same thing to black voters that 'he did to Monica Lewinsky'
And Wright began getting some play on cable television too, especially on FOX News.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
There is always an inverse propor
tion between the number of persons a reporter reaches and the amount he can say.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
For Barack Obama the strategy was simple: just say 'Bill Ayers [or anything else you don't want to talk about] is a dis
traction.'
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Then I say I wish there were.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Even liberals-the reasonable ones, anyway-would say, 'You can't do that!'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
No, the McCain campaign didn't say that.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Well, let's just say no one could fault you if you thought it was written by someone on her husband's campaign.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
When people ask me how I'm doing, I say, 'I'm only as good as my most sad child.''
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Because the expulsion might shed some light on an Obama presidency, I decided to see what the most important newspaper in the solar system, the
New York Times,
had to say about the matter.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
If the Fairness Doctrine were resurrected now, any radio station that ran, say, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck or Laura Ingraham-or any other big, profitable conservative talk show-would have to make time for liberal shows.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But you can't say government hands off in one area to a commercial enterprise but you're allowed to inter
vene in another.
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I am never surprised anymore when stupid people say stupid things.
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Is it too simplistic to say that the real goal here is to crush conservative talk radio, I asked him.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
I think you can say that the media had a finger, more than a finger, on the scale on the Democratic side.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Five little words that constitute the grownup version of one little word that kids say when
they
don't give a crap:
'Whatever.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Conscientious people don't say that about any other kind of bias.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Because journal
ists haven't had the guts to stand up and say '' It is what it is' just won't cut it anymore.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But unlike, say, conservative Christianity, this was a religion the main
stream media could like, because it is a religion 'rooted in a deep faith in rationality.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
It gets worse: 'For those of us born since World War II, never in our adult lifetimes (as the next First Lady undoubtedly meant to say last winter) has any single event made us prouder of our coun
try...
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
We're all Dorothy, stunned at having just stepped out-tripped out, one might even say-from a half-wrecked black and white reality into a strange and glorious new Technicolor world.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Let's just say my friend Rachel is not big on 'dainty.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
If a white guy robbed a liquor store, the story might read: 'James Smith, a 25-year-old from Springfield, was arrested Saturday night after police say he held up a liquor store on Main Street.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
They say John McCain in 2008 is not the guy we got to know in 2000.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
So I humbly offer a belated and most insincere nod to Patricia-as I say, for contributing nothing to this book.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
What Tom was really saying, for those of you who are not fluent in bull crap, was, 'We hon
est impartial objective fair journalists are not the problem.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
I'm not saying that everyone on television or in the press has to abide by the Edward R. Murrow gold standard of reporting (in fact, Murrow himself, in his own way, first blurred the line between news and commentary), but there are limits.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Still, his slobbering prompted this dead-on reply from Howard Kurtz in his
Washington Post
media col
umn: 'Funny, it's hard to recall many journalists saying they wanted to make Ronald Reagan's or George W. Bush's pres
idency work.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But Matthews upped the ante, taking his praise of Obama into a Biblical realm: 'You know, I've been criticized for saying he [Obama] inspires me, and to hell with my critics! ...
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
A story in the
St. Petersburg
(Florida)
Mimes,
for example, quoted a parishioner as saying the church combines gospel singing and modern dance with Southern-style handshak
ing, hugging, and kissing; and that the preaching tends to be 'common-sense folk wisdom laced with theological sophis
tication ....
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Even the paper's own public editor slammed the story, saying that
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although it 'raised one of the most toxic subjects in poli
tics-sex-it offered readers no proof that McCain and [the lobbyist] had a romance.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And in fact, on 9/11, he was quoted in the
New York Times,
saying, 'I don't regret setting bombs.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
In fact, the profile quotes her husband's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, as saying Mrs. Obama 'is very, very smart and sensitive.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Look, I'm not saying Plane-Gate was the equivalent of Watergate.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Never mind that old saying Harvard men probably know quite well-that consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But were these two guys really so jaded that they were willing to write off this bias so dismissively? Were they really saying that Republicans have to understand how con
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rupt journalism is in the real world, and they just have to suck it up?
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Me too, says Olbermann.
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And, as Dennis Miller, my fellow bloviator on FOX News, says, liberal feminists hated her because she wasn't neurotic and seemed to be happily married-unlike
most of them!
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'If you want to understand where Barack gets his feeling and rhet
oric from,' says the Rev. Jim Wallis, a leader of the religious left, 'just look at Jeremiah Wright.''
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
A
New York Post
editorial observed that 'Wright's self-professed Afrocentric church has attracted Sur
prisingly little media attention-given the critical role that Obama says Wright and the congregation have played in his personal development.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'It's that when Obama is forced because of events to make a speech about race after it's discovered that he had been in the church for twenty years with a raving racist, he says `I can no more disassociate myself from him than my poor grandmother.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
The press says brilliant, Lincolnesque speech.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'Six weeks later he renounces his first position and he breaks, in fact, with Wright and says he is beyond the pale.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
The press again says case closed, he's done it again.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
A print reporter I know who covered the Bush White House, and who says he voted for Obama, told me, 'When there's a Republican in the White House, reporters see themselves as self-appointed prosecutors.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But when a newsman says
'and we're the better for it,'
he crosses a very bright line between reporting and editorializing.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And yet the press has made no effort to square those things, to ask questions about why we should believe Obama now and what he says, because what he has done in the past is so different.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Somebody, Caddell told me, 'who gets up at the start of his campaign and says, 'I want you to see the press.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
What if this is the most dangerous man that ever came along? Nobody will care what the press says.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
If nobody cares what the press says, jour
nalists will be watchdogs in name only.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
However, because of their naked attempt to do so, almost no one outside the Upper West Side of Manhattan or Nancy Pelosi's congressional district in San Francisco believes them anymore.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
And besides, what kind of real woman has five kids? And who names her kids Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig? The elites gasped,
'What the hell kind
of
low-rent names are those?' I'll
bet you can't find one kid in the entire Upper West Side of Manhattan whose name is Track, Bristol, Wil
low, Piper, or Trig.
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'After Barbara West, a reporter on WFTV-TV in Orlando, had the temerity to ask some tough questions to Joe Biden, the Obama campaign cancelled an interview with Mr.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'Obama supporters even called for Miss West's ouster.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they get turned on when someone calls them to leak the name of the guy who will be appointed as the official procurer of sta
ples and pencil erasers in the West Wing.
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My left-wing friends, for example, hate FOX News and they honestly believe that all you get on FOX News are conservatives-one loudmouth right-winger after
12
another.
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You right-wing morons you're
the problem!'
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PANSY BALL
25
Got that you right-wing bastards? If you don't break down and weep when you hear the Messiah speak then you're not a
real
American.
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This referred to a common left-wing attack on McCain, who at one point during the campaign was asked how many houses he and his wife owned and told the reporter he'd get back to him on that.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'I think we're onto something,' Capus told the
New Yorker,
referring to one of Olbermann's left-wing diatribes that got lots of favorable reaction from the fever swamps of the Left.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
But as Charles Krauthammer noted, 'Should you bring up Barack Obama's real associations-20 years with Jeremiah Wright, working on two foundations and distributing money with William Ayers, citing the raving [Father] Michael Pfleger as one who helps him keep his moral compass
(Chicago Sun Times,
April 2004) and the long-standing relationship with left
wing vote-fraud specialist ACORN-you have crossed the line into illegitimate guilt by association.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Father Andrew Greeley, a left-wing clergyman in Chicago, sputtered that Palin was 'a racist with her eye on the White House.'
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
MSNBC is the official network of left-wing lunatics and there are enough of them apparently to accrue enough of an audience for MSNBC to be satisfied.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
Right-wing blogs have sprung up.
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
How would the media play the story had it been John McCain who spent twenty years in a church with a
right
wing minister who said racist things about
black
people?
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
'Jeremiah Wright and [Father] Michael Pfleger are not just people with left-wing opinions,' Sowell pointed out.
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And 'Bill Ayers is not just 'an education professor' who has some left-wing views,' according to Sowell.
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One especially nasty example of this approach appeared in the
Boston Globe
on January 28, 2008, in a piece by Alex Beam, who wrote that 'Wright has been profiled by several newspapers, and the forward shock troops of the right-wing hate machine, i.e. FOX News, have already lobbed a few shells in his direction.'
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Get it, you dense right-wing dummies? Pay attention, morons!
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And you can be sure of one thing: if John McCain had a
right-wing
Reverend Wright in
his
life, a minister he had known for nearly twenty years and who was his spiritual guidance counselor, you can bet
that
story would have been written up large on page one of every big city newspaper in the country.
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'We are looking at the most left-wing candidate with the most radical associations since Henry Wallace in 1948, and the press has ruled out as illegitimate any inquiries into this.'
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Those (like me) who know the Left-wing codes notice things about Obama that suggest he is far more radical than he would like us to know.'
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The next day the story hit the
Times
of London, which noted that 'Obama could run into further difficulties over his relationship with William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois and former member of the Weather Underground, a left-wing terrorist group that planted bombs in the Capitol and the Pentagon in the 1970s.'
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On February 19, 2008, the story appeared in the United States in the now-defunct conservative paper, the
New York Sun:
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Senator Obama's ties to a former leader of the violent left-wing activist group the Weather Underground are drawing new scrutiny as he battles Senator Clinton for the Democratic pres
idential nomination.
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From that day for
ward, the big mainstream media could no longer pretend that only Obama-hating right-wing nuts were interested in the Obama-Ayers connection.
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The idea that a 'right-wing talking head' would sug
gest a question to one of their guys-one who helped get Bill Clinton elected president no less-was of far greater concern to mainstream journalists than any connection Obama had with an old terrorist.
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LIFE IN THE BUBBLE
W
henever I speak about bias in the news, the one point I make sure to drive home is this: contrary to what some conservatives think, there is no vast left-wing conspiracy to slant the news.
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Imagine, though, how they would react if instead of Schumer, some bigshot right-wing Republican had said that,
in the name of consistency,
since the government has the power to step in and control porn on our airwaves, then it should also have the power to step in and control on-air lib
eral
speech.
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It was because Obama was leading, and 'win
ning begets winning coverage.')
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For a while, it looked like McCain had a chance of beating the historical
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odds, but after the economy tanked, so did McCain's slim chances of winning.
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9111, with its resulting wars
in
Afghanistan and Iraq was a pretty good start for this phase.
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Maybe that's why we went into Afghanistan and Iraq; there weren't enough trees to make us feel peaceful.
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There is no application process, and membership is by invitation only
which makes sense when you consider that current and former members include George Shultz, Peter Coors, Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Sam Nunn, William Ford, and Warren Buffett.
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12 You Can't Say That! The Politics of Correctness .........
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Here are just a few quick highlights of what 'the enlightened' say about those who dare to ask logical questions about global warming:
® Heidi Cullen, climatologist at The Weather Channel, suggested disagree
ment should mean a loss of meteorological certification: 'If a meteorologist
can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval.'
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® Ellen Goodman, from the
Boston Globe,
wrote: 'Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.'
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Since I know that I'll be taken out of context and made to say what I don't believe, let me try to make my position perfectly clear.
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A.D.D. MOMENT
When I say that those who disagree with the 'consensus' on global warming are routinel! attacked, I should point out an important caveat.You
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seem to be criticized only it you say there will be les; devastation.
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As geologist and paleoclimate expert Dr. Bob Carter puts it, to say that CO
z
is the primary cause of temperature change is like saying that lung cancer causes smoking.
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3 Billion Ford Expeditions
E
nvironmentalists like to say that the solution to global warming is for every person to do his or her part.
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In a 2007 report largely ignored by the media, David Bromwich, researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, found that temperatures in Antarctica aren't matching up with what climate models have been predicting: 'The best we can say right now is that the climate models are somewhat inconsistent with the evidence that we have for the last SO years from continental Antarctica....
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Scientists Say It's Already Too Late!
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unless the Swiss say it.
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Some will say '1975 was a long time ago;
science
has improved so much since then!' Obviously, that's true.
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That's not to say those 30 years make a global climate trend-but maybe, just maybe, the last 30 don't either.
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They say they are
more
sure, they make
more
colorful statements about their certainty, and they get
more
violent with their language toward those who dare to question them.
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So, to add the appropriate amount of urgency and drama, environmentalists must say that weather events such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, and extreme temperatures are getting worse and worse right now.
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However from what I
hear-it's
now amazingly easy to find 'adult' content
by which at, oh, say 2:00 in the morning, when sleep is elusive, a man can point and click his way down the rabbit hole to far-off lands like Amsterdam or Thailand, where
good taste and the laws of physics don't seem to apply.
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In the immortal words of the woman voted 'Least Likely to Be Referenced in a Passage about Hot Chicks,' you've got to 'Just Say No' to porn.
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Or I guess I should say lack of respect.
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So, instead of a solution, let me just say this: If you have kids, divorce is going to hurt them the most-I've seen it firsthand.
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Even under the friend
liest of splits, divorce makes raising children diffi
cult, to say the least (just ask Alec Baldwin).
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I know that's easy for me to say now,
but it comes from the understanding that if we all went into marriages with clearer heads, I don't think we'd be looking to get out of them quite so often.
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SSTART THE WHOLE CYCLE ALL OVER AGAIN
wish the issues surrounding the beginning and ending of relationships were as easy to solve as, say, global warm
ing.
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If you say something negative about Islam, you can be put to death.
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'Even Muslims who say they are against terrorism secretly admire and applaud [the 9/11 hijackers]....
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Maybe that's part of the reason Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport is the first airport in the country to test the new 'backscatter' security machines that critics say reveal a lot more than just weapons.
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IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING
O
ur government implores citizens to speak out when they see suspicious behavior.
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We all, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, must speak up and say 'Enough' if we don't want our history, our culture, and likely our entire civi
lization to be completely destroyed.
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I love the people who say, 'Oh, Glenn, let's just talk to them.
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I asked her, as a woman who has seen up close the transformation from moderation to
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extremism and experienced the hate that accompanies it, what she thought people need to hear, and her answer was chilling: 'For those people who say it's a small prob
lem, I want to tell them it starts small but it grows.
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The mainstream media outlets really have no interest in showing us what extrem
ists say or do or how clearly they state their threats against us.
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You may not like what I have to say, but (so far) I have the right to say it without being killed.
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How am I supposed to convince my teenage daughter that it's OK to have a little acne when no teenage celebrity has any? When they're horrified by cellulite, what famously 61
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hot movie star can I point to and say, 'Look at her-she must have cellulite because she's always wearing slacks!'
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Even though no fancy study has wasted money confirming it yet, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of them are reading magazines with arti
cles like 'The Look That Keeps Him Hot for You' just before they head to the bath
room to barf up their lunch.
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Let's say your 15-year-old daughter is better than average; she's 5'6' and weighs 125 pounds.
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Let's say there's a small, bucolic private college in the Midwest (we'll call it 'DePauw University'-merely for the sake of the story).
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Well, actually, they don't
say
that's the reason, but the sorority's on-campus nickname, 'the dog house,' doesn't leave much room for doubt.
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In the not too distant past, I was out with one of my daughters at a popular retail outlet whose name I shall not repeat here except to say it may or may not rhyme with Crap.
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The conned dater could also post a short summary of the deceit and include any emails from you describing yourself ('I wouldn't say I have six-pack abs, but-well, you know, let's just say I
work out').
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Women always say men lose points whenever they 'talk too much about themselves,' so shut your pie hole and let her do the talking.
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If you want us to kiss you at the end of the date, please-I beg you-let us know! I speak unilaterally for all men when I say we're absolutely clueless.
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MV SOLUTION: LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT
never understand women who say, 'I wasn't attracted to him at first, but then I got to know him, and-I
learned to love him.'
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But politicians can't say things like that.
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If the politicians who say that economic differences are caused by the evil system lining up to crush our spirits are right, then you'd think that all siblings would earn the same salary.
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One analyst then went on to say that this debunks 'the myth of America as the land of opportunity.'
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What does all of this mean? Number crunchers say that if the nuclear family hadn't collapsed as it has over the last generation, the poverty rate would be 26 per
cent lower for white children and 38 percent lower for black children.
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Rising demand combined with decreasing supply usually means-say it with me-higher prices! In this case, much, much, (much) higher prices.
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After all, these countries can't exactly come out and say, 'Attention! We are starting a nuclear-fuel program because we have just 20 years of oil left.'
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As with almost everything else that's terror-related, most experts say that a major attack against oil inter
ests isn't a question of
if,
it's a question of
when.
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But let's say that Mr. Raymond was wrong, that we can still become energy
independent.
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The rest, as they say, is history.
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People disagree about whether NCL was completely responsible (some argue that it bought up streetcar systems across the country and systematically dismantled them, while others say that never hap
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pened), but what no one can deny is that by 1950, the streetcar was virtually ob
solete.
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To reach President Bush's goal of producing 35 billion gallons of ethanol a year (which would replace just 15 percent of our gas consumption), experts say we'd have to turn an area the size of Kansas and Iowa into farmland.
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I think the professor is wrong on both counts, but presenting those ideas should inspire others to stand up and say, 'I think you're wrong, and here's why.'
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And if you look at the 'elite' schools-places such as Harvard and, yes, Yale-87 percent say they're liberal.
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I think it's pretty safe to say that politicians like power.
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Incidentally, both can
didates say they are friends.
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So there are 'various reasons' to run 'roughshod over the most basic principles of democ
racy?' Sounds like something a 'tin-horned dictator' would say.
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Here is what a few of the 'firm deadline for withdrawal' supporters had to say before the elections:
® 'As far as setting a timeline...
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Needless to say, Byrd won the election.
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How many times have you heard people say, 'Well, I'm just not even going to vote anymore-it's pointless.'
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I often like to say that life isn't about left or right, it's about right and wrong.
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When the movie's over, gently wake your wife up and say, 'I can't believe you slept through (insert name of bonnet movie here) ...
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Person after person went on television to say how 'strong' the Rutgers women were yet how 'devastated' they must be by three words uttered by an 825-year-old talk-show host almost no one listened to live.
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I didn't say that ...
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When you put a piece of news video or a report into the main computer system, they say it has been ingested.
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Glenn Beck Says 'Katrina Victims Are Scumbags'
I say a lot of stupid things, but this was not one of them.
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Why did I say dig deep? Because that morn.
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Third, remember the whole 'context mat-
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ters' discussion? If these people had bothered to listen to the rest of the monologue, they would've heard me say that I was only referring to-and I quote myself-a 'small percentage' of '0.2
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He said, how about 'blowing up Iran?' So, in my gruff, stereotypically alpha-male charac
ter voice, I said, 'I say we nuke the bastards!'
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Reasonably intelligent people without an agenda might say that I wasn't making a serious policy statement, considering it was done in a character voice over a crappy Clay Aiken song, but that didn't stop blog after blog from reporting it as if it were serious.
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Did anyone
really
think that I was advocating the nuclear annihilation of every country on the planet that doesn't agree with everything I say? Of course not; they just knew that the people who read their blogs wouldn't bother looking into it any further.
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So why not just admit it? It's not a dirty word, and you shouldn't be ashamed to say, 'I see most things from a liberal point of view, so when I tell you this next story about Karl Rove and Dick Cheney murdering puppies, keep that in mind.'
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Less than two decades later, people seem to have absolutely no idea what they can say and when or where they can say it.
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The pro
gram encouraged 'sexual promiscuity' (that's PC for acting like Lind
say Lohan) and 'free love' (that's PC for acting like Paris Hilton).
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I say that now because everything you're about to read will suggest that I'm not.
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Well, I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore-or shall I say I'm not going to give
it anymore? The revolution starts now.
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Let's say it's a good day, and I snag a 'clean' one that has only used hypodermic needles and a small pool of blood in it.
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I tell the driver where I want to go, and he takes me there (with blatant disregard for both the speed limit and the laws of physics that say you cannot pass through another solid object even if it is making a right turn from the left lane), and I arrive at my destination.
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(Some might say that he just doesn't want to admit on a website to anything patently illegal.)
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I'm not trying to say that law enforcement in general doesn't do its job when it comes to stopping pedophiles-after all, they can only work with the laws and resources we give them.
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Sure, we say that we do, but our actions tell a vastly different story.
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,
o o ' o
They say Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but he had probably just called in the UN to oversee things.
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You'd say, 'I saw Babycakes the other day,' and your friend would assume he knew whom you were talking about.
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He suggested that you look the person in the eye, concentrate really hard, say their name over and over, and then come up with a word or object that reminds you of them.
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Finally, you'd have the freedom to say, 'Hi, I know I've met you about a hundred times, and our two families even vaca
tioned together for a week on the Cape, and I think you might actually be the godmother to my
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third child, but I can't for the life of me remember your name,' without any embar
rassment.
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They answer the phone and say 'Hello?' I respond with, 'Hi, it's Glenn.'
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If you're not expected to remember the voice of someone you've known for their entire life, should you really be expected to remember their face? Of course not! Unless, of course, that face is connected to the body of, oh, let's just say Jessica Alba.
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Liberals say a rising minimum wage helps low-skilled workers; conservatives say it hurts them.
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Conservatives say it hurts economic growth; liberals say it helps.
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For every study 'proving' that an increase in the minimum wage has no impact on unemployment, two other studies say it does.
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Suffice it to say, the man's been in Washington a long time.
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Here's what he had to say from the House floor during the min
imum-wage debate: 'In the United States of America, the richest nation on earth, workers should not be relegated to poverty if they work hard and play by the rules.'
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We will succeed in raising the minimum wage during the first hundred hours of the 110th Congress-an accomplishment that the Republican majority could not-or shall I say cared not to-achieve in 10 years.'
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I think I speak for all Americans when I say:
We get it!
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Think about it this way: If I proposed that we raise the min
imum wage to, say, $20 an hour, I could then legitimately claim that something like 80 percent of the people affected by my new bill are their families' 'chief breadwinner.'
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At the danger of breaking my own rule on keeping this about politics (again), let me just say that people tend to forget that the minimum wage is the
minimum
wage.
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YOU KNOW HOW SOME
old people say they're not getting older, they're get
ting better? Well, those people are liars.
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Studies show that a surprisingly high percent
age of women say they find bald men attractive.
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When it comes to hair sprouting up from-or shall I say out of-places we'd rather it didn't-such as our nose and ears-there's only one solution: the love of a good woman.
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Besides my incredibly shrinking bladder, I've had chest pains and lower-back aches, migraines and shortness of breath, the sweats, the chills, and all the major and minor health concerns of a guy who's fort-let's just say no longer in his 20s.
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They also say that youth is wasted on the young, but the other side of '' that coin is that wisdom is wasted on
the old.
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The original wording of the poll question was 'Some people say the 1975 Public Affairs Act should be repealed.
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Even though they specifically asked the media not to leak the initial results and held a conference call during the day to say that the data looked sketchy, the leaking and the
smirking didn't stop.
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To show you what I mean, I'll counter the Lohan sim
plification with an even greater one: Let's say there's a new guy who starts working at your office.
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Seven out of 10 say yes, giving him an approval rating of 70 percent.
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For example, let's say you had a one-night stand with one of the Proclaimers, and a pollster asks you if you think the greatest band of all time is the Rolling Stones, U2, the Beatles, the Proclaimers, or Chumbawumba.
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Making a station 'Your Randy Vanwarmer Source' for three weeks is not a good idea, no matter what the data say.
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That's not to say that real hunger and poverty don't
WHAT'S FOR DINNER, I'M STARVING!
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If we could somehow get that number to 40, which is generally considered to be full-time (either through one household member working 40 hours a week or two members working 20 hours each), number crunchers say that almost three
quarters of children in poverty would be immedi
ately lifted out.
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DON'T SAY 'HOMELESS,' PLEASE USE 'RESIDENCE ASPIRANT'
The government has estimated that there are about 754,000 homeless people in America.
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That reduction of about 10 percent can't be relied upon enough to say confidently that we've decreased homelessness by that exact number, but it's at least safe to say there was no increase in homelessness during that time.
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The country that you've worked so hard to build, the country that you're constantly told has so many problems, can proudly say that just 0.07
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While I know it's shocking to hear someone say it, I promised you the truth, so here it is: Some homeless people would rather be drunk than in a bed.
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I love my kids more than anything, but even the most casual observer might say that I've screwed them up in every possible way.
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This would go on for, oh, say, about three months.
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A lot of people say that children are actually a lot more harmless than you think, that they're almost indestructible, but I'd like to tell you right now that those people are dead wrong.
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Anything you say can and will be used
against you.'
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I know that I'm going to pay for everything I say to my kids.
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I didn't want poor Stanley to say anything, though; I just wanted him to be unnerved.
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Needless to say, a romance between my daughter and Stanley never blossomed.
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Government officials, of course, say they have no plans for a superhighway, yet the North American SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) has received $2.5
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All great ideas, Bob, really; and I can definitely see why you say that people are crazy for thinking that you're advocating any kind of North American Union.
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I cannot say that the United States government will respond positively, but I think Mexico would consider such an approach positively, and if the two neighbors of the United States were to make a persuasive case, influential sectors in the United States would encourage the Administration to take them very seriously.'
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Honestly, who is a big-oil company going to give its money to: the politician it believes is giving it a fair shot or the politician who is literally saying its product is killing the earth? In reality, people and companies give their money to politicians and
groups who believe what they believe.
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*An Inconvenient Footnote: This period of horrific swings and misses called 'global cooling' is usually dis
missed by saying that there wasn't as much certainty then as there is now.
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He was, of course, beaten up by every 'dot org' in America for saying that, but it's true.
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I'm not saying that religion is the key to a happy and successful marriage, but I'm not not saying it, either.
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Let
me start off by saying: I dig chicks, especially hot ones who aren't wearing much in the way of clothing.
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The study summarizes all of these statistics pretty nicely (especially that last part) by saying: 'If you are a reasonably well-educated person with a decent income, come from an intact family, are religious, and marry after age 25, without having a baby first, your chances of divorce are very low indeed.'
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Are you saying that we were supposed to let him keep doing it? Of course not.
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Re fired back at the publication, saying, 'It reeks of the tired and pathetic technique to vilify and demonize those who threaten their con
trol the most rather than to deal with the core issues they raise.'
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'Oh, Glenn,' you must be saying, 'that stuff is just for celebrities and the very rich.
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And appar
ently, parents are actually saying yes.
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Since a guy saying 'I'm in sales' often really means 'I'm in debt,' all men must come to the first date with their complete financial records and a recent W-2 form, along with indisputable proof that they do not currently live in their parents' basement.
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You
are
going to die someday (why don't you have a will yet?); the Social Security system will go bankrupt (why haven't we fixed it yet?); Rosie O'Donnell will keep saying idiotic things (why do we still listen?); and this coun
try will run out of oil.
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Do I think a professor should be fired for saying America is evil or communism is a great idea? No, not at all.
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Warren Wilson College
The Princeton Review quoted a Warren Wilson student as saying, 'Politically, Warren Wilson `consists of various facets of the left wing: the Democrats, the Greens, and the anarchists.
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That's a nice way of saying that traditional letter grades are replaced by heartwarming pep talks at the end of each semester detailing what each student needs to improve on.
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Fourth, I was also ripped for saying, in the same monologue, that I was annoyed at 'around 10' of the families of the more than 3,000 9/11 victims because I felt that Americans had given until it hurt, and a few families seemed to be using their tragic position and America's sorrow for political and/or financial gain.
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Here it is, the most poorly worded question of all time:
'You are saying, `Let's cut and run.'
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And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, `Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.'
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For example, you first have to believe that I was
only
telling the truth when I butchered that one ques
tion and I was
lying
when I made each of these other statements in the same interview:
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BECK:
'What I feel like saying is, `Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.'
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Let's start with the quote: 'Muslims need to start saying, `Hey, you know what? There are good Muslims and bad Muslims.
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Governor Gregoire and his attorneys apparently didn't have the same concerns earlier in the week when he lit a menorah with a group of rabbis, saying it celebrated the cultural diversity of the state.
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Just four months earlier, state law enforce
ment had sent a letter to the Citrus County sheriff's department saying that Coney had not responded to a letter to verify his address as he was required to do as a sex offender.
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Now, I'm certainly not
saying that Kojo Annan used his influence to land his company a huge UN contract, then took hundreds of thousands in kickbacks, but I'm not not saying it either.
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but I do remember him saying that 'the key to remembering someone's name is to associate a word with their face.'
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It all adds up to the minimum-wage issue being a classic example of the saying 'Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics.'
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Dingell (I just like saying his name) says that it took the
Democrats less than 100 hours to do what the Republicans couldn't do in 10 years.
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He's basically saying two things: (1) Not very many people make minimum wage anymore, and (2) of those who do, a large portion are
teenagers, part-time workers, or first-time employees.
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The 'breadwinner' claim sounds impressive,
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until you realize that she qualified it by saying 'among those workers who would
ben
efit from this legislation.'
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That tired, old (pun intended) saying may look good on mugs and T-shirts in the AARP Christmas catalog, but the grim truth is that we are all getting older, and most of us are not getting better.
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STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK MY BONES, BUT WORDS WILL NEVER HURT ME
W
hoever came up with that saying obviously wasn't a pollster, because the wording of a question might be the single largest factor in skewing a poll from mildly accu
rate to as irrelevant as the presidential aspirations of Joseph Biden.
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The first, from USA
Today,
reflected typical media optimism about Iraq, including such positive stats as nine out of 10 Iraqis saying they lived in fear, along with uplift
ing antecdotal evidence such as a 38-year-old Iraqi woman saying, 'There is no life at all.'
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BEDTIME STORIES
The pessimism patrol isn't going to be derailed by some evil conservative analysis saying that the problem of homelessness in America is comparatively microscopic.
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He sat down on the couch, and I did an old lawyer trick, which is to sit in silence and stare, the idea being to unnerve the other person into saying something.
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He likens the SPP to the initial stages taken by the supporters of the European Union, saying that the 'economic route being pursued behind closed doors by xteo SPP working groups is a replay of the
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exact stealth route taken in Europe....
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Remember earlier when I suggested that it may not be the politicians who are fully in control? Well, I'm not saying that elite corporate lead
ers are; but I'm not
not
saying it either.
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There seems to be an incredible disconnect between what AI Gore says and what people do.
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When Gore says there will be tar more than the UN, he's not only embraced, he wins Oscars
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nother one of the most powerful moments in An Inconvenient Truth is when Al Gore gets on his fancy hydraulic lift and stands in front of a gigantic screen featuring a graph that shows carbon dioxide (CO
z
) and temperature moving in unison for hun dreds of thousands of years.
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Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, says, 'In a decade, you will see parts of English cities which are controlled by Muslim clerics and which follow, not the common law, but aspects of Muslim Sharia law ...
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Even though every generation says they have the worst teens ever, today's parents actually do.
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GLENN BECK
Glenn Beck Says Something Else about Muslims!
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If Americans were forced to live like North Koreans, maybe we'd come to see the next time a comedian says something horrendously offensive in a comedy club as a tribute to the fact that we even
have
comedy clubs.
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That's what old Merriam-Webster says is the definition of
rip.
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Some Person then says, 'Hi, Tania, I'm Fred Tanner.
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Even my father-who's known me for 43 years
says, 'Hi, it's Dad,' when he calls me.
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For every statistic 'concluding' that a rising minimum wage doesn't affect poverty levels, there's a senator with his arm around a young minority worker who says that it most certainly does.
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She says that 'most' are full-time workers, which gels with what Mr. Kingston said-she just used the other side of the same statistic.
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It there was an error in printing this book and it says something other than 88 percent, then it was a misprint.
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The Los Angeles Times says that the confidence interval is 'such a standard meas
ure that we usually don't even mention it.'
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After all that, we'd still have $21.9
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We'd have far bigger problems on our hands today.
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She understood that unless we shared a common faith, unless we had something deep, mean
ingful, and spiritual to help guide and bind us, we'd never make it.
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There's a lot of stuff in our history we'd like to forget: the Holocaust, slavery, New Coke.
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If she looked like Pete Rose, I don't think we'd have done quite as much 'connecting.'
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First, it would mean that we'd have to replace the Mexican oil with oil from another country-likely a Middle East
creepocracy,
thereby making us even more reliant on countries that don't exactly see eye to eye with our Bill of Rights.
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If laser movies are our meat and potatoes-the food we'd live on if no one harassed us about our diet-then bonnet movies are like spinach and broccoli.
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WHEN PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH
included those words in a 1991 commencement speech, he knew how serious the consequences of political cor
rectness were, but he couldn't have possibly predicted how quickly and how intensely we'd feel them.
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If we all just started demanding that employers paid their own employees, then we'd be allowed
simply
to pay for the goods and services we want without any 'good service' surcharge (that should be part of the purchase price anyway).
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It could take years to implement, and we'd need to rally support from congressmen who probably not only hate needles but also would claim that this plan sounds 'a lot like the Antichrist.'
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As our hair abandons us, we feel the need to compensate with leather seats and horsepower and SUVs that can drive up mountains at 90-degree angles-if only we'd ever let them leave the road, which you don't when you spend 80 grand on a car.
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Unfortunately (for him), Robert Byrd, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, is stuck with it.
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He wrote: 'The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the
nation.'
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I'm guessing that if it wasn't 1952 in West Virginia when that little bombshell dropped, his campaign might have been hurt a little more than it was.
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In fact, given that it was West Virginia circa 1952, you can make the case that his campaign was probably respon
sible for leaking the letter.
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I know what you're thinking; that's exactly the opening line you expect from a con
servative, low-skill-worker-hating, free-markets-at-all-cost, right-wing blowhard, right? Yes, but in this case, it also has the benefit of being true.
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If you're part of what he calls 'the xenophobic or frightened right wing of America that is afraid of immigration and globalization,' then you prob
ably remember his name well: Robert Pastor.
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balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere,' Washington Post, November 16, 2006, by Nobel Prize-winning climatologist Paul J. Crutzen ('The reception on the whole is more positive than I thought,' he said.)*
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That means that an environmental science professor could teach the 'dangers' of global warming by showing
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without ever hav
ing to mention that much of the science is up for debate (or screening Glenn Beck's award-winning* documentary
Exposed: The Climate of Fear
as a counterbalance).
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And they're not winning.
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IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS
A
fter World War II, in which more than
62
million people died, the winning countries got together and said, 'Yeah, so I was thinking that after about five more world wars, there won't be any humans left on the planet.
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That means the McGriddle could be the favorite breakfast treat by a convincing 55 to 42 percent margin, or there's an equal chance that the Crossanwich could actually be winning the hearts, minds, and arteries of America by a 50 to 47 percent margin.
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GLENN BECK
'The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization.
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THE FIVE W'S
T
housands of Mexicans Illegally Cross U.S. Border Each Month.'
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
As the median age of the population rose in Europe, exceeding 40 years in Germany and Italy, while many Third World countries had median ages of around 20, or sometimes even lower, as in Yemen or Afghanistan, the argument was made that someone had to provide the services usually provided by young people.
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A nation where the average age is under twenty, as in Yemen or Afghanistan, cannot have accumulated as much human capital- skills, experience, education- per person as a nation where the average age is around forty, as in Germany or Italy.
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It is easy enough to say that 'crime does not pay,' but the real question is: Does not pay whom- and compared to what? It is doubtful whether Bill Gates could have done nearly as well financially as he has by becoming a burglar or even a hit man for organized crime, but those who do pursue these criminal occupations are unlikely to have had the same alternatives available that Bill Gates had because of his particular talents and circumstances.
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This is not to say that there was no thinking ahead about political consequences.
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While the amount and nature of crimes have varied with the likelihood of punishment, this is not to say that crime rates are unaffected by cultural or other differences among countries.
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
'Our heads spin from rushing,' say Pavel, the silver-haired chief of traumatology at a Moscow clinic, who, like some other Russians interviewed for this article, wont give his last name.
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The soaring cost and rising number of new vaccines, doctors say, make it increasingly difficult for them to buy the shots they give their patients.
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And some public health experts say that if the situation worsens, it could lead to a breakdown in the nation's immunization program, with a rise in otherwise preventable diseases.
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As economists say, 'sunk costs are sunk.'
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When we say that housing prices are higher in one community than in another, we implicitly mean housing of a
given quality.
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Prices mean little if we are comparing apples and oranges
say, a villa on the beach versus a cabin in the woods.
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Some industry analysts say that it costs a bank an average of $40,000 to foreclose on a loan.
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Often what we do makes more sense than what we say.
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However, that does not say that this increased output adds to the real per capita income of the existing citizens.
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This is not to say that all, or even most, of the people in the immigrant communities in Europe or the United States share the adversary
The Economics ofImmigration
attitude of many organized immigrant movements or the European or American 'multiculturalists' who wish to preserve foreign cultures.
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Among the things that politicians say that economics can challenge is the oft-repeated claim that immigrants take jobs that the citizens of the country will not take.
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This is not to say that there was no resistance by whites.
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Farming demands that particular things be done in particular seasons
which is to say, that people are constantly forced to think beyond whatever stage they are in currently.
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While much of nineteenth century Europe not only grew economically but became interconnected with other nations within the continent and overseas, much of Eastern and Southeastern Europe lived close to 'self-sufficiency'
which is to say, it was isolated, poor, and backward.
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Although the water is costly to the government-which is to say, the taxpayers- it is cheap to the farmers, and is used as i£ it were abundant.
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But that is very different from saying that these policies produce a net benefit to the economy as a whole.
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France is an example:
In every healthy Frenchman hides a sick one dying to be diagnosed, goes a wry French saying.
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In 2007, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons responded to proposed new restrictions by one of these bureaucracies, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) by saying: 'Dictating the practice of medicine and surgery is not the role of [UNOS], let alone in the best interests of patients.'
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Realtors sometimes explain such disparities by saying that the three most important factors in housing prices are 'location, location, and location.'
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Space District's policy was quoted as saying: 'I've got 10 grandkids and some of them would like to be here someday.
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Another way of saying the same thing is that the cost of setting aside resources to cover the losses is less for an insurance company than the total of all the resources required to be set aside by each of the insured individuals to produce the same probability of being able to cover
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the same costs.
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If critics raise the question of costs, this can usually be dismissed rhetorically by saying that multi-billion dollar insurance companies can surely afford these costs and have a 'social responsibility' to do so- 'social responsibility' being one of those opaque imperatives for which neither logic nor evidence is considered necessary.
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THOMAS SOWELL The Hoover Institution Stanford University
Chapter 1
Politics versus Economics
I don't give a good goddamn
what
Milton Friedman says.
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Ms. Maugaotega says she called
28
obstetricians but couldn't find one who would take her.
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Although many people see government intervention as necessary to produce 'affordable housing,' history as well as economics says otherwise.
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says James Haughey, director o£ research at Reed Construction Data in Norcross, Ga.
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Graduates cannot work out how many square metres of carpet would cover a floor, says the district's education chief, Wolfgang Schimmang.
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None of this says anything about life chances, however relevant it may be to questions about employer discrimination.
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None of this says anything about how much discrimination there is.
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What it says is that a vocabulary has come into being that makes it virtually impossible to determine how much discrimination there is, since the results of both discrimination and numerous other factors are lumped together under the same words.
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The standard of living in the geographically less favored parts of Europe was
2
An old Southern expression says: 'Whether you are going to Heaven or Hell, you have to change in Atlanta.'
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Even a small group of islands like the West Indies imported more slaves than the United States, despite the fact that the resident slave population in the United States was the largest in the hemisphere.
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In the West Indies, y
;
however, it was more common for the plantation owners to live in Britain, c leaving resident overseers a far freer hand in making decisions.
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One consequence was that the infant mortality rate among slave women in the West Indies was some multiple of what it was among slave women in the American South.
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The average cost of this insurance for individual doctors ranges from about $14,000 a year in California to nearly $40,000 a year in West Virginia.
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At one time, it was common for Lebanese businessmen in West Africa or Indian businessmen in East Africa to provide jobs for younger family members who later followed them to their new country of settlement, and Chinese businessmen have done the same in Southeast Asia.
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The same drastic reduction in ocean voyage costs which enabled people to cross the Atlantic who could not have afforded to do so before likewise reduced the cost of crossing the Pacific, bringing in significant numbers of immigrants from China and Japan to the west coast of the United States, as well as to the Caribbean and South America.
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Finally, in West Africa, 'the culture of the indigenous majority is not communicated to immigrant groups'- or perhaps the Lebanese and other immigrants do not choose to become like the indigenous peoples.
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Among Lebanese immigrants, for example, assimilation tends to be greater in the United States or Australia than in Latin America, and least in West African nations such as Sierra Leone or the Ivory Coast.
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In medieval Eastern Europe, whole enclaves of immigrants were recruited from Western Europe, mostly Germans, in order to bring to the less developed eastern regions of the continent some of the agricultural and other advances from the west.
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Lebanese immigrants created retail networks in the West African hinterlands of Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, as immigrants from India and Pakistan dominated retail trade in both the hinterlands of East African nations such as Kenya and Uganda and in urban centers such as Nairobi.
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In these housing projects lives an immigrant population numbering several million, from North and West Africa mostly, along with their French-born descendants and a smattering of the least successful members of the French working class.
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For example, the numbering system in use around the world today originated centuries ago among the Hindus of India, and displaced Roman numerals in the West, as well as every other numbering system that it competed with in every other country.
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When the British established control over vast areas of West Africa formerly controlled by a variety of tribes and rulers, this enabled the Ibos from southern Nigeria to migrate to northern Nigeria in safety, setting up enterprises and pursuing careers in places where they would never have dared to locate before, among alien peoples.
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In British West Africa, for example, it took 37 men to carry a ton of cocoa for a day's journey.
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As late as the 1970s, the median earnings of immigrants to Australia from Greece, Italy, or Yugoslavia fell below the earnings of immigrants from West Germany or from English-speaking countries.
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Similarly, in the American Pacific Northwest, precipitation on parts of the west side of the Cascade Mountains averages up to ten times as much as on parts of the Columbia Plateau to the east.
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Because climate tends to vary less from east to west than it does from north to south, knowledge of particular crops and animals that flourish in a particular climate likewise spread more readily from east to west than from north to south.
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The knowledge of such things likewise spreads more readily from east to west, than it does from north to south.
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Knowledge of sailing in general was not enough when trying to sail off the west coast of Africa, for example, in places where it was easy for Europeans to use the wind and currents in that region to get in but hard to use them to get back out again.
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This pattern has been widespread, from the resentments of the Indians and Pakistanis by indigenous populations in East Africa to the resentments of the Lebanese in West Africa, the British in Argentina, the Jews in Eastern Europe, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Chinese throughout Southeast Asia, and many indigenous minorities such as the Marwaris in India's state of Assam and the Ibos in northern Nigeria.
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But the question is: How long can such a situation last? More specifically, can it last long enough to explain international differences in income and wealth that go on for centuries? An observer writing about West Africa, early in the twentieth century, reported that the ability of foreign traders to obtain much gold and ivory in that region for a little inexpensive colored cloth and cheap knives had already been ended by the growth of competition, and that consequently 'the margin o£ profit was diminished.'
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The invention of railroads and trucks has made available low-cost transport for the first time in regions lacking in navigable waterways and draft animals, such as much of West Africa.
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
Information on low-income residents doing their shopping and banking in higher-income neighborhoods is from pages 10 and 28 of The Thin Red Line: How the Poor Still Pay More, written by David Dante Troutt and published in San Francisco in 1993 by the West Coast Regional Office of Consumers Union.
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The chain migration patterns of the Lebanese in West Africa, Indians in East Africa, and Chinese in Southeast Asia were noted, respectively, on pages 242 to 243 of
The Lebanese Traders in Sierra Leone
by H. L. van der Laan; pages 73-75 of
The Indian Minority of Zambia, Rhodesia, and Malawi
by Floyd Dotson and Lillian O. Dotson; page 300 of
South Asians in East Africa: An Economic and Social History, 1890-1980
by Robert G. Gregory; page 172 of
The Chinese in Philippine Life: 1850-1898
by Edgar Wickberg; and page 15 of
The Chinese in New Zealand- A Study in Assimilation
by Ng Bickleen Fong.
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The manpower used to carry cocoa by porters and by train was discussed on page 54 of
The Economic Revolution , in British West Africa
by Allan McPhee published by Frank Cass & Co.,
Ltd.
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The reduced margin of profit in trade in West Africa in the early twentieth century was from pages 65-66 of
The Economic Revolution in British West Africa
by Allan McPhee.
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However, the ease of filing and winning lawsuits on the basis of shaky or speculative evidence, or on the testimony of 'hired gun' experts who have financial incentives to back up what is said by the lawyer who hired them, has made the connection between malpractice lawsuits and genuine malpractice tenuous.
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However, details later emerged that CIA operatives or U.S. soldiers had killed dozens of detainees during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Attention Deficit Democracy
A 2002 survey for
National Geographic
found that 'roughly 85 percent of young Americans [aged 18 to 24] could not find
Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map.'
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Inattentive voters also helped make U.S. torture in Iraq and Afghanistan non-issues in the presidential race.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Watched by a national television audience of millions, Miller revealed that political opposition is treason: 'Now, at the same time young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief.'
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In reality, the abuses range from the endless high-vol
ume repetition of a 'Meow Mix' cat food commercial at Guantanamo, to tear
ing out toenails in Afghanistan, to compulsory enemas for recalcitrant prisoners, to beating people to death in Iraq and kicking them to death out
side Kabul, to illegally sending detainees to foreign governments to be tortured by proxy and creating a system of 'ghost prisoners' worthy of a banana re
public.
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One of the most novel arguments the Bush team used to justify waiving torture prohibitions was the notion that Afghanistan was a 'failed state.''
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Ac
cording to the Bush legal team, if the United States labeled Afghanistan a 'failed state,' that meant that Afghanistan was not a party to the Geneva Con
ventions, and thus that U.S. government employees could not be prosecuted for violating the rights of captured Taliban fighters.
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Attorney General Ashcroft, in a memo to Bush, explained that a presidential determination de
creeing Afghanistan a 'failed state' 'would provide the highest assurance that no court would subsequently entertain charges that American military officers, intelligence officials, or law enforcement officials violated Geneva Convention rules.''
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This March 6, 2003, report-drawing
heavily on the Bybee memo-helped establish interrogation policies for U.S. military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The
Los Angeles Times
reported that Rumsfeld's legal
counsel ordered military intelligence officers in late 2001 to 'take the gloves off' while interrogating John Walker Lindh, the American who fought with the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan.
Attention Deficit Democracy
A Pentagon press release issued on the day of a congressional hearing on the report declared: 'A few `bad apples' and a lack of proper supervision-not a failure in military training, doctrine or policy-were responsible for detainee abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq.'
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Fay noted how abusive practices migrated from Guan
tanamo and Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib: 'The techniques employed in [Guan
tanamo] included the use of stress positions, isolation for up to thirty days, removal of clothing and the use of detainees' phobias (such as the use of dogs).'
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SG
Similar practices were used by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, with the re
sult that U.S. 'interrogators in Iraq, already familiar with the practice of some of these new ideas, implemented them even prior to any
policy
guidance' from Iraq commanders.
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imported and can be traced through Afghanistan and GTMO [Guantanamo]..
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The report noted that 'interrogators and lists of techniques circulated from Guantanamo and Afghanistan to Iraq.'
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But, the week after Church's summary was released, the Pentagon admitted that 26 detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan had been killed in what was or appeared to be criminal homi
cides-more than four times as many homicides as Church recognized.
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Marine Lt. Gen. James Mattis explained in early 2005, 'You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for 5 years because they didn't wear a veil.
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Calling in May 2005 for more foreign governments to assist U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush declared, 'Democratic societies are peace
ful societies-which is why, for the sake of peace, the world's established democracies must help the world's newest democracies succeed.'
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I6
However, since World War II, the United States either attacked or invaded the following nations:
Korea
1950-53
Lebanon
1958
Vietnam
1961-73
Laos
1964-73
Dominican Republic
1965-66
Cambodia
1969-70
Lebanon
1982-84
Grenada
1983
Libya
1986
Panama
1989
Iraq
1991-2005
Somalia
1992-94
Croatia
1994
Haiti
1994
Bosnia
1995
Sudan
1998
Afghanistan
1998
Yugoslavia
1999
Afghanistan
2001-2005
Johns Hopkins University professor John Harper noted, 'America's imperial career does little to support the view that the United States, by virtue of its democratic norms and institutions, is inclined to solve international disputes pacifically and to promote democracy abroad.''
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Index
Aachen, Christopher, 13 Abortion, 41 Abramof Jack, 220 Abrams, Eliot, 100-01 Abu Chianti, 7, 23-24, 35, 110, 111, 112, 113, 127,133,135-37,139,140,143,144,145 Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, 35
Adams, John, 48, 149, 186
Afghanistan, 18, 24, 112, 117, 119, 122, 127,137, 145, 191, 193
AFL-CIO, 57, 58
Agency for International Development (AID), 53, 56,62-64
Agricultural polity, 81, 157, 214 Air marshals, 39
Airport security, 40 Albania, 61
Albee, Edward, 149 Albright, Madeline, 215, 217 Aliteracy, 14
Allawi, Iyad, 22, 23, 45, 67, 69 Allende, Salvador, 55 AlhurraTelevision, 111 Alliance for Progress, 53-54 Almond, Gabriel, 227
AI Qaeda, 17, 18-19, 25, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43, 85-86,112,115,119,217
Alterman, Eric, 77, 93-94, 101 Alvarm, Gustavo, 55
American Bar Association, 25-26, 27,
American Civil Liberties Union, 127-29, 134, 138, 139,142
American Enterprise Institute, 190
American Friends of the United Yeshiva Movement, 180
American International Center, 220 American Prospect, 39
American Revolution, 171, 200-01, 242-43 American Sociery for Public Administrators, 124 AmeriCorps, 81
Americas,
1
Amish, 97-98
Amnesty International, 80, 141 Annenberg Center, 23 Anti-Torture Act, 113-117, 250 Apple, RW, 159
Arabs, 17, 111, 123, 139.
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Deputy Assistant Attorney General John You sent White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales a memo on September 25, 2001, suggest
ing that 'an American attack in South America or Southeast Asia might be a surprise to the terrorists,' since they were expecting the United States to target Afghanistan.s
Attention Deficit Democracy
The issue is not whether democ
racy is good or evil, but that seeing democracy as an absolute good opens the gates to great evil.
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Lord Bryce, a British ambassador to the United States and the author of the
-Harley Sorensen,
2004
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classic
American Commonwealth,
commented on Americans in 1921: 'No
body says, as men so often say in France, Germany, and Italy, `I never trouble myself about politics.''
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To say that choosing a right answer to such a question reveals an understand
ing of the American system of government is like saying that knowing that New York is on the east coast proves a mastery of geography.
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authorities say they hope to forestall any plans for similar attacks here.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Bush kept coming back to Kerry's use of the phrase 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time' as if Kerry had greatly sinned against the American people by say
ing such a thing.
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Kerry will say anything to get
elected.'R
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The Democrats
were
supposedly not allowed to say anything criti
cal about Iraq, and the Bush campaign was not obliged to say anything honest about it.
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Wilson announced in May 1914: 'They say the Mexicans are not fitted for self-government; and to this I reply that, when properly directed, there is no people not fitted for self-government.'
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As Carothers noted,
In Guatemala, USAID [the U.S. Agency for International Development] funded a large program in the late
1960s
and early
1970s
to train rural lead
ers, so as to give rural communities more say in their own development.
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The Associated Press noted, 'To reconcile that ap
parent conflict, endowment officials say they are not helping Mrs. Chamorro but rather Nicaragua's democratic coalition-and that Mrs. Chamorro just happens to be the coalition's candidate to replace Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
However, as
Newsday
observed in May 2005, the effort by NED and AID to 'oust' Chavez was 'so poorly im
plemented that experts say the net result has been to solidify Chavez's hold on power and has led U.S. senators to worry that administration policy could provoke Chavez into suspending oil shipments, which currently account for 15 percent of U.S. imports.''
Attention Deficit Democracy
They will continue to destroy unless you say, `Enough is enough.'''
Attention Deficit Democracy
Carina Perelli, the top UN election official, condemned the role of U.S. troops, complaining that 'the U.S. military have been extremely, I would say, overenthusiastic in trying to help out with this election.'''
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3
' Washington did not offer a long list of asterisks to this truth-he did not say that foreign influence would be welcome if it only helped build up political parties, or merely paid for their 'get out the vote drives,' image con
sultants for favored candidates, or newspapers to sing the tune of a foreign government.
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Washington Post
White House correspondent Dana Milbank com
mented on the Bush and Kerry campaigns: 'I think they've reached a point where they feel you can say anything, and by the time the press catches up with it, it'll be days if not weeks later.'SS
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Will future historians say of today's Americans that 'truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology,' as Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1941? '
3
°
Lying is part of the larger problem of deference to the government.
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A poll released in late July by the University of Maryland
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Program on International
Policy
Attitudes (PIPA) found that Bush's 'handling of the detainee issue made 37 percent say they were less likely to vote for him, while 22 percent said it made them more likely.'
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When pressed about the conduct of CIA interrogators, Goss declared: At this time, there are no `techniques,' if I could say, that are being employed that are in any way against the law or would meet-would be considered torture or anything like that.'
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Because what they say is that everything is connected, nothing happens by accident, and that there is some kind of order in the world, even if it's produced by evil forces.'
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To say that peo
ple should not blindly trust the government is not to call for anarchy or for vi
olence in the streets or the torching of city halls across the land.
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But to disrupt the Electoral College, to say in effect, hey, we just `savant to shine light on this problem, is not
the proper use of the people's time.''
Attention Deficit Democracy
In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can de
clare wars.'
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Macaulay objected to the blind optimism of his times: 'It is the fashion to say that the progress of civilization is favorable to liberty.
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(He neglected to say that a Moon organization had organized a fundraiser for Davis before the event.)
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And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.
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We say 'of the people, by the people, and for the people.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
The only way to claim that democracy automatically protects liberty is to say that the only freedom that matters is 'freedom for the government to rule in the name of the people.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Adam B. Lawrence, 'Does it Matter What Presidents Say? The Influence of Presidential Rhetoric on the Public Agenda, 1946-2003,' University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Bryna Brennan, 'Endowment Cancels Program That Critics Say Favored Anti-Arias Forces,' Associ
ated Press, October 13, 1989.
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Michael J. Sniffen, 'Evidence Gained Through Using Torture OK, US Officials Say,' Associated
48.
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Douglas Jell and David Johnston, 'White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials
Society for Public Administrators and National Academy of Public Administration, Rutgers Univer
Say,' New York Times, January 13, 2005.
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Jehl and Johnston, 'White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say.'
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Jehl and Johnston, 'White House Fought New Curbs on Interrogations, Officials Say.'
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Eric Schmitt, '3 in 82nd Airborne Say Beating Iraqi Prisoners Was Routine,' New York Times, Sep
tember 24, 2005.
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FABRICATING A RIGHT TO RULE
It is a common saying among political campaign consultants: 'In victory, all sins are forgotten.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
4
As the old saying goes, 'War is God's wa of teaching people geography.'
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Sev
enty-five percent of Bush supporters think the Bush administration is currently saying Iraq was providing substantial support to al Qaeda (56%) or even that it was directly involved in
9/11 (19%)....
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Interestingly, these perceptions of what the Bush administration is saying are something on which Bush and Kerry supporters agree.
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CONCLUS10B
It is a popular saying that people get the government that they deserve.
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There is an old saying that
.
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Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, condemned Democrats for 'consistently saying things that I think undermine our young men and women who are serving over there.'
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RE-SAYING HAITIAN ORNOCRACY
Haiti is one of the most frequent recipients of democratic salvation from the United States.
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m4
Gonzales waffled, saying that 'as someone who may be head of the de
partment, I obviously don't want to provide any kind of legal opinion as to
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whether or not that conduct might be criminal.'
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Jeannette Arocho-Burkart interrogated the prisoners at Guan
tanamo, she allegedly wore 'skimpy clothing to make Muslim men uncom
fortable during questioning' and 'allegedly smeared red ink on a detainee's face, saying it was her menstrual blood,' according to a report in the
New York Daily News.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The cartoon, imitating one of the most famous Abu Ghraib photos, showed a naked body cowering in a corner with a bag labeled 'Senate' over his head and his arms up to guard his face saying, 'Um ...
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THE DANCER OF EXCESSIVE TRUST
Blind trust in government is often portrayed as a harmless error-as if it were of no more account than saying prayers to a pagan deity that didn't exist.
Attention Deficit Democracy
This is like saying that it was the will of the Bulgarian consumer in communist times to hoose between an unreliable, ramshackle Trabant from East Germany, or an unreliable ramshackle Skoda car from Czechoslovakia.
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty' was a common American saying in the nineteenth century.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The article quoted the apt saying by Charles Darwin that 'ig
norance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Eric Sterling, former chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and the director of the Criminal Justice
Policy
Foundation, observed, 'There's a saying on the Hill that if you have to explain the vote, it's a bad vote.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Yet when Atwater asked Turek to lower his voice because he was scaring the children, he responded by jabbing his fin
ger in Atwater's face and saying, `You're going to jail.''i
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David D. Kirkpatrick, 'Republicans Admit Mailing Campaign
Literature
Saying Liberals Will Ban the Bible,' New York Times,
September
24, 2004.
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Contents
Chapter I
Introduction
I
Chapter 2
Ignorance and the Mirage of Informed Consent
I 1
Chapter 3
Fearmongering and the Battered Citizen Syndrome
32
Chapter 4
Messianic Democracy
49
Chapter 5
Lying and Legitimacy
76
Chapter 6
Torture and Absolute Power
in Contemporary Democracy
108
Chapter 7
Trusting Government at Any Cost
149
Chapter 8
Elections as Reverse Slave Auctions
171
Chapter 9
Democratic Delusions
on Peace and Inevitability
189
Chapter 10
Big Picture Myopia
206
Chapter 11
Democracy vs. Liberty
224
Chapter 12
Conclusion
242
Acknowledgments
253
Notes
254
Index
281
Credo for the New American Patriotism
I believe:
That politicians are more honest than they seem;
That government is more competent than it appears;
That government is benevolent, regardless of how much it wastes or how many people it harms;
That citizens must trust the government, regardless of how often it lies;
That democracy is a panacea, regardless of how often it fails;
That freedom is whatever the president says it is, pend
ing revision.
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Bush, echoing Clinton and earlier presidents, says that America is 'called' to spread democracy and freedom around the world.
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The fact that so few questions and criticisms were raised about an election so obviously tainted illustrates how, for most of the American media, 'democracy' is sim
ply whatever the U.S. government says it is.
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6
In 1940, in one of his final speeches of the presidential campaign, Presi
dent Franklin Roosevelt assured voters: 'Your president says this country is not going to war.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Some days, Vice President Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein had `long-established' ties to AI Qaeda.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Other days, he says the former Iraqi dictator `had a relationship' with the terrorist group.
Attention Deficit Democracy
We know he doesn't mean what he says.'
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President Bush declared in July 2003 that the new act 'essentially says ...
Attention Deficit Democracy
As long as people believe what the govern
ment says, no one will get sick.
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They are 'illegal' simply because the president says so.
Attention Deficit Democracy
What matters is what the president says the United States intends to do.
Attention Deficit Democracy
But if a private citizen assumes that the license plate means what it says and drives off in the car, he will be charged with grand larceny.
Attention Deficit Democracy
'President Says Saddam Hossein Must Leave Iraq within 48 Hours,' White House Office of the Press Secretary, March 17, 2003.
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Dayton Says Leaving Hill Staffers As Human Shields' Is Irresponsible,' The Hotline, October 14, 2004.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Kevin Drawbaugh, 'FBI Fumbled on Terror Financing, 9/11 Panel Says,' Reuters News
Service,
Au
gust 22, 2004.
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George Gedda, 'Bush Says Venezuelans Revolted after Losing Some Freedoms,' Associated Press, April 18, 2002.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Says It Did Not Carry Out Plans to Back Iraqis in Election,' Washington Post, July 18, 2005.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Philip Taubman, 'House Committee Says U.S. Embassy Ignored Warnings,' New York Timer, Octo
ber 4, 1984.
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David Bauder, 'NBC Anchor Says Reporters Feisty Again,' Associated Press, September 12, 2005.
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Outgoing Social Security Head Assails 'Myths' of System and Says It Favors the Poor,' New York Times, December 2, 1979.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Memo Says Tormre'May Be justified,''
Washington
Post, June 13, 2004.
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Memo Says Bush Not Restricted by Torture Bans [Reuters/Yahoo]; Defense Department Regular
77.
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Struggles in War of Ideas, Panel Says,'
Los
Angeles Times, July 25, 2004.
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Eric Lichtblau, 'Gonzales Says '02
Policy
on Detainees Doesn't Bind C.I.A.,' New York Times, Janu
ary 19, 2005.
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Military Says 26 Inmate Deaths May Be Homicide,' New York Times, March 16, 2005.
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Guantdnamo Detainees Are 'Bad People', Says Cheney,' Guardian (UK), June 13, 2005.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher, 'Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq
Policy,'
Washington
Post,
January 16, 2005.
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Military Says 26 Inmate Deaths May Be Homicide,' New York
19.
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In September 2004, the Republican National Committee sent mass mailings to residents of Arkansas and West Virginia warning that the Bible could be banned if liberals won the election.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The flier warned:
The liberal agenda includes:
Removing 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance Allowing teenagers to get abortions without parental consent Overturning the ban on the hideous procedure known as Partial Birth Abortion
Allowing Same Sex Marriages'
The mailing urged West Virginians to 'vote Republican to protect our fami
lies' and defeat the 'liberal agenda.'
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Robert Byrd (D
WV) howled: 'They must think that West Virginians just bounced off the turnip truck....
Attention Deficit Democracy
But the people of West Virginia are smarter than that.
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(Bush received 87,000 more votes in West Virginia in 2004 than in 2000, winning the state by a much larger margin.)
Attention Deficit Democracy
How would Americans have responded if the roles had been reversed? Consider the case of Jessica Lynch, the 20-year-old blond, blue-eyed, attractive West Virginian Army supply clerk captured after her supply convoy was attacked during the invasion of Iraq.
Attention Deficit Democracy
A 1997 federal appeals court decision condemned the FBI rules of engagement as 'a gross deviation from constitutional principles and a wholly unwarranted return to a lawless and arbitrary wild-west school of law enforcement.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Fukuyama hailed the 'unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism' and proclaimed that 'we in the liberal West occupy the final summit of the historical edifice.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Remarks in West Allis, Wisconsin,'
Public
Papers
afthe
Presidents, September 3, 2004.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Dave Peyton, 'Some
People
Think We're Really Dumb,' Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia), Oc
tober 18, 2004.
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James Hider, 'West Turns Blind Eye as Police Put Saddam's Torturers Back to Work,' The Times (Lou
don/UK), July 7, 2005.
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149-170 Truth, 99-100
Tugwell, Rexford, 149 Turek, Ban, 229 Turkey, 190 Turkmenistan, 72
Ukraine, 64-65, 165
Uniform Code of Military Justice, 125 United Fruit Company, 52-53
United Nations, 19, 67, 81, 82, 83, 121, 215-17, 235
University of Maryland PIPA, 4, 18, 19, 20, 122
University of Pennsylvania, 23 Upper Volta, 73
USA Today 139
U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, 24 Uzbekistan, 72, 235 Uzzell, Larry, 99
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, 92 Venezuela, 62-64
Vietnam, 4415, 53, 54-55, 78-79, 92, 93, 109,
1
5
1-
5
2
,176,193,218-19,239
Voinovich, George, 174-75
VMS,
Jessica, 138-39
Vox Populi, Vox Dei, 15, 102
Waco, 81, 147, 153-54, 156, 157, 169, 272, 278 Wal SMeetjournal, 43, 118, 210-11
War Crimes Act, 112 War on Poverty, 98 War Powers Act, 195-96 Warner, John, 135 Warren Commission, 162 Washington, D.C., 36, 37, 38 Washington, George, 6, 70-71, 100, 199, 202 Washington Port, 13, 23, 24, 37, 44, 45, 66, 87, 89, 92, 93, 94, 110, 112, 119, 121, 135, 139, 143,
144
,146,159,161-62,228,238
Washington press corps, 221-22 Wshington Timer, 86 Wasserman, Edward, 90 Waterboarding (interrogation), 137-38 Waters, Maxine, 173
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), 19-20, 21, 25,94,197,215-16,219,247
Weaver, Randy, 157-58 Weber, Vin, 184 Wedel, Janine, 61
Weekly Standard, 208-11 Weimar Republic, 238 Weinstein,Allen, 56 Welshofer, Lewis, 138-39 Wendland, Pat, 42
West Virginia, 41, 146 Wede, Robert, 36 Wherry Kenneth, 49 White, Henry, 51
White House Iraq Group, 103 Wicker, Tom, 219
Will of the people, 1, 3, 9, 25, 31, 73-74 Wille, Rob, 39
Williams, Brian, 95 Wills, Garry, 157-58 Wilson, Woodrow, 50-51, 78, 190, 192, 200, 231 Wiretaps, 40
Wisconsin, 23 Wolfowitz, Paul, 96, 129 Womack, Anne, 90 Womack, Guy, 130 Wood, Gordon, 77, Wolf ad (2004), 42143 World Trade Center, 34, 43, 48
World War 1, 33, 51, 78, 190, 192, 194, 195, 200, 220-21,243
World War 11, 44, 52-53, 78, 82, 202, 220-21
Yale University, 186 Yalta, 78
Yglesias, Matthew, 39
You, John, 113-14, 134, 166
Yugoslavia, 81-84, 193, 195-96.
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°
The National Inter-University Union, a right-wing French student group, received $575,000 in NED funds.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The grant was justified because the union was a 'counterweight to the propaganda efforts of left-wing organizations and professors active within the university system.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
This was the same tactic that Hillary Clinton used when she appeared on the NBC Today show in late January 1998 and de
nounced the allegations of her husband's fling with an intern as a slander by a 'vast right wing conspiracy.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Hofstadter derided the legitimacy of the modern right-wing move
ment-scorning it as a 'pseudo-conservative revolt.'
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13
At that time, the Federal Communications Commission was striv
ing to torpedo right-wing radio.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Bill Ruder, Kennedy's assistant secretary of commerce, later declared: 'Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doc
trine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope that the chal
lenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide
it
was too expensive to continue.''
Attention Deficit Democracy
The FBI was also running its COINTELPRO program at that time, including thou
sands of covert operations to incite street warfare between violent groups, to wreck marriages, to get people fired, to smear innocent people by portraying them as government informants, to sic the IRS on people, and to cripple or destroy left-wing, black, communist, white racist, and other organizations.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Paul Webster, 'Reagan Fund paid $830,000 to French Right-wing Union,' Guardian (UK), Nmem
her 28, 1985.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Defends Funds to Right-Wing Group,' United Press International, November 28, 1985.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Defends Funds to Right-Wing Group.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
'Agency Suspends Grant To Right-Wing Student Group,' Associated Press, November 27, 1985.
Attention Deficit Democracy
In 2000, a year after Clinton's Senate impeachment trial, Simon & Schus
ter published
A Necessary Evil: A
History
of American Distrust of Government,
by Pulitzer Prize-winning professor Garry Wills, one of the most respected
popular historians in America.
Attention Deficit Democracy
The sheer quantity of govern
ment power insulates an election winner from the citizenry: it is as if he has entered a giant fortress on an impregnable hill after winning.
Attention Deficit Democracy
Attorney General John Ashcroft titled the August 2003 launch speech of his national Patriot Act promotion tour 'Securing Our Liberty: How America is Winning the War on Terror.'
Attention Deficit Democracy
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
'Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies,' Jefferson famously declared, and went on to say:
The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Why should a huge company be bailed out, say critics, while thousands ofsmallerfirms suffer bankruptcy every year? Where should the Government draw the line? GM Chairman Thomas A. Murphy has attacked federal help for Chrysler as 'a basic challenge to the philosophy of America.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
But was Chrysler really a successful bailout after all? Judged on the shortest-term basis of mere survival, we can begrudgingly say yes.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The executives use phrases like '100-year flood' and 'act of God,' and say they 'feel terrible for the employees who dedicated their lives to the firm and now have seen their life savings and pensions wiped out by this perfect storm of unforeseeable events.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The members of Congress say: 'My constituents are outraged!' 'How could you let this happen on your watch?' 'Why were the warning signs ignored?' 'You made how much money last year?' 'Thanks for the campaign donations.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Farmers say you have to 'make hay while the sun is shining.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
That's to say nothing of the impact unregulated derivatives had on AIG.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
As a car guy, I can say without hesitation that General Motors hasn't designed a dashboard that wasn't ugly as shit since the 1950' (the early 1960s Corvettes were the sole exception, but they were a special project).
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Then there were the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs): It's hard to say why Fannie and Freddie were bailed out on September 7, 2008.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Suffice to say a trillion is a big number.
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This was a 185
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polite way to say Bear Stearns didn't hire only WASPs when that was the de rigueur on Wall Street.
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The Fall of Bear Stearns
193
Chapter 16
Dot-Corn Penis Envy
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Even more AIG-related risk was moved to the Federal Reserve (a private institution), and to the Treasury-which is to say you and me.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The move was aimed at avoiding-some say circumventing-a Federal court order that would have blocked the New York-based Citibank from issuing securities backed by residential mortgages originated by the bank.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The firms, of course, say it's different money and bonuses are key to retaining top employees.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
To say he was wholly unsuited to the position is to understate the case.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
It isn't glib to say the financial meltdown was three times as bad as it might have been but for Donaldson's SEC granting this waiver.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
What did federal bank regulators have to say about this paradigm shift? Very little, even though the FBI warned of an 'epidemic' of mortgage fraud in 2004.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Let me ask you, where in the CRA does it say to make loans to people who can't afford to repay? Nowhere.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Of all the flailing criticism and finger-pointing after the collapse, blaming the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was probably the oddest:
On the Republican side of Congress, in the right-wing financial media (which is to say the financial media), and in certain parts of the op-ed-o-sphere, there's a consensus emerging that the whole mess should be laid at the feet of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the failed mortgage giants, and the Community Reinvestment Act, a law passed during the Carter administration.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Louis Uchitelle, 'Greenspan's Authority Curtailed on Interest Rates, Of
ficials Say,'
New York Times,
April 8, 1991,
http://querynytimes.com/gst/
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Sarah Max, 'Appraisal Fraud: Your Home at Risk; Appraisers Say They're Being Pressured by Lenders to Inflate Their Estimates of Home Values,'
CNNMoney,
June 2, 2005,
http://money.enn.com/2005/05/23/real-estate/
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Now that clean-up is at hand, who better to explain what went wrong? Read this book: when Barry Ritholtz speaks, as the saying goes, attention must be paid.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
As the saying goes:
Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Peter S. Goodman and Gretchen Morgenson, 'Saying Yes, WaMu Built Empire on Shaky Loans,'
New York Times,
December 27, 2008, www .nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28wamu.html;
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
'Nonsense,' says the senior, tenured professor.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Forget what the window sticker says; your new car isn't really more expensive-it's
better.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: 'This is the cause!'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Greg Ip, 'Did Greenspan Add to Subprime Woes? Gramlich Says Ex
Colleague Blocked Crackdown on Predatory Lenders Despite Growing Concerns,'
Wall StreetJournal,
June 9, 2007,
http://online.wsj.com/article/
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
FrMeric Bastiat, 'What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen,' in
Selected Es
says on Political Economy,
trans.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Dawn Kopecki, 'Fannie, Freddie `Insolvent' after Losses, Poole Says,'
Bloomberg,
July 10, 2008,
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Yalman Onaran, 'Fed Aided Bear Stearns as Firm Faced Chapter 11, Bernanke Says,'
Bloomberg,
April 2, 2008, ww .bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Mary Williams Walsh, 'Tracking Firm Says Bets Placed on Lehman Have Been Quietly Settled,'
New York Times,
October 22, 2008,
wwwnytimes.com/
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
• While Bear Stearns was rescued by a $29 billion Fed shotgun wed
ding to JPMorgan Chase, former chairman Jimmy Cayne received $60 million when he was replaced.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The differences
between the modern-day cowboy/bankers
2
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and the ranch hands of the old West are many, not the least of which is monetary-today's banker/rustler makes a whole lot more money than the frontiersmen did in the past.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Rail
road and telegraph firms were given easements and rights of passage, facilitating the government's desire for expansion into the West.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
It was operating-quite literally-in the Wild West.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Exactly why did the Fed become in charge of psychol
ogy? The central bank was originally established to bring financial order to the early Wild West days o£ banking.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
It was going on right in the backyards of
West Coast banks like Washington Mutual and IndyMac and Coun
trywide Financial.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
t is a tenet of faith among right-wing supporters that abuses by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were aided and abetted by Democratic mem
bers of Congress, notably Representative Barney Frank.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
The bill almost didn't make it through the Senate; Vice President Spiro Agnew cast the deciding vote, winning passage 49 to 48.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Because of its early success and the pedigrees of its principals-including former Salomon Broth
ers bond chief John Meriwether and Nobel Prize-winning economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton-LTCM was able to use leverage to amplify its bets many times.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Someone would either be winning a Nobel Prize in economics-or going to jail.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman famously declared in 1996:
There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion.
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning professor o£ economics at Columbia University, called it a 'system failure'-not merely one bad decision, but a cascade of many decisions that produced tragic results.'
Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
The Bemanke Fed has been pillared from all sides: some argue it eased policy too much, rewarding risk takers and igniting inflation; others say it has eased policy too little, risking a financial and economic meltdown.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Thus if the unemployment rate were say
6 percent
at the start of the year and GDP grows one percentage point above potential, then typically the unemployment rate would fall to 5.6
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Rather than blame fiscal policy or the normal rhythms of the business cycle, it's easy to say that it is the independent Fed-'the crucial anomaly at the very core of representative democracy'
that is the source of the country's economic problems.
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With the Fed under intense-and often unfair-political pressure, Vol
cker would puff on a cigar while delivering a complicated-some would say, deliberately confusing-testimony to Congress.
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Fellow CEA member Paul MacAvoy recalls, 'To prepare for public appearances, he used to try and say something and make it take the longest possible way to parse it out.'I
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In the science fiction series Star
Trek,
the prime
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directive for a starship captain is that there can be no interference with the internal affairs of other civilizations; it is not an overstate
ment to say the prime directive for Fed officials is to avoid political matters that unnecessarily risk the independence of the Fed.
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percent trend of 1973 to 1995, but how much higher, he did not say.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Putting a new twist on an old expression: when it comes to a potential asset bub
ble, 'If you don't have anything bad to say, don't say anything at all.'
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
All I can say is: SOS.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
In the face of inflation, which is often associated with excessive monetization of govern
ment debt, the virtue of an independent central bank is its ability to say 'no' to the government.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Greenspan concludes, 'I regret to say that Federal Reserve inde
pendence is not set in stone.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Quoted in Edmund L. Andrews, 'Some Critics Say the Fed May Risk Repeating Earlier Mistakes,'
New York
Tames, January 24, 2008.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
When asked what the neutral rate was in Congressional tes
timony, however, then-Chairman Alan Greenspan ducked the ques
tion by saying the neutral funds rate was a moving target and that 'we probably will know it when we are there.'
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
As the saying goes: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
He should take some of the blame for the two big asset bub
bles that emerged during his term: by repeatedly saying bubbles can't be identified in advance he may have actually encouraged the bubbles.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
The response in the mar
ket was: 'If he is saying they may pause it must mean that they are pausing!' After all, that is exactly the way Greenspan would have dropped such a hint.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
At his confirmation hearing in November 2005, he sidestepped questions on fiscal policy, saying, 'That's outside the realm of my authority.'
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The astute reader will ask: if
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Greenspan is saying that there is a 50 percent probability of reces
sion, isn't he suggesting that the Fed is behind the curve and should be cutting interest rates faster to reduce that probability? However, Greenspan's message is a bit more subtle, and a lot more ominous, because he also sees a major risk of inflation.
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4
Adam Posen, a political economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, agreed, saying the Fed's faster rate cuts would provide 'too much rather than too little stimulus,' pushing inflation noticeably higher.
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He concludes by saying that the Fed's forecast of a small rise in the unemployment rate will do little to stop inflation: 'The Fed should insist on its obligation to prevent inflation and sustain growth, not sacrificing inflation to lower unemployment before the election.'
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
In his memoirs, Greenspan says, 'Rubin, Summers and me ...
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Meyer also says Greenspan wanted, but ultimately gave up on, issuing formal speaking guidelines for FOMC members.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Otherwise, as he says, 'Institutions which evolve
and perform well in normal times may become counterproductive during periods when exogenous shocks or policy mistakes drive the economy off course.'
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Why is this important? Because, says Benanke, 'Most impor
tantly, monetary policy makers are public servants whose decisions affect the life of every citizen; consequently, in a democratic soci
ety, they have a responsibility to give the people and their elected representatives a full and compelling rationale for the decisions they make.
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More
over, in the recent publicity tour for his memoirs, Greenspan now says that froth 'was a euphemism for a bubble [and] all the froth bubbles add up to an aggregate bubble.'
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4
Looking further ahead, he says, 'I fear that my successors on the FOMC, as they strive to maintain price stability in the coming quarter century, will run into populist resistance from Congress, if not from the White House.'
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On a similar note, long
time collaborator and NYU professor Mark Gertler says, 'If you read anything he's written, you cannot figure out which political party he's associated with.'
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Ip says members signal a desire to speak out of turn by raising two hands.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Phil Izzo, 'The U.S. Economy Hasn't Hit Bottom, Survey Says,' Wall
Street
Journal, April 10, 2008.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
It seemed like more than a coin
cidence that home price inflation accelerated in all fifty-seven major metro areas in the West from 2003 to 2004.
Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
There were subjects he would
Over the next thirty-four months, I would spend nearly thirty hours in one-on-one interviews with Cheney for this book: on the telephone from my home; on my cell phone from a dingy Wyoming motel; at the vice president's residence in Washington, D.C.; aboard Air Force Two somewhere over the Midwest, and again flying back from Afghanistan, and another time returning from Iraq.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
On December 25, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Despite the frenzied activity of the Soviet military
in the months leading up to its move into Afghanistan, the U.S. intelligence community, with few exceptions, had downplayed the possibility of such an invasion.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And while he followed closely the developments in Afghanistan and Iran, he spent much of his first term on matters relating to the Ethics Committee, fulfilling duties he had accepted as part of the deal struck with Rhodes in November
1978.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was very firm that we had something to get done, which was Afghanistan,' recalls Rice, 'and that any move in any other direction was not-you know, we had to get the country ready for a potential of another attack and we had to win in Afghani
stan and that was enough.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Any realistic plan had to involve American boots on the ground in Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'If you've got a nation out there now that has provided a base, training facilities, a sanctuary, as has been true, for example, in this case, probably with Afghanistan, then they have to understand, and others like them around the world have to understand, that if you provide sanctuary to ter
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rorists, you face the full wrath of the United States of America.
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At one PM eastern daylight time on October 7, President Bush announced that a war in Afghanistan was under way.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against
Al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
These carefully targeted ac
tions are designed to disrupt the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations, and to attack the military capability of the Taliban regime.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He methodi
cally listed things he said 'we know' about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda: they attacked America, they have attacked Ameri
can interests before, they have tried to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and they have trained people in Afghanistan to use
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those materials.
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In Afghanistan, the fighting continued.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Many commentators, particularly con
servatives, were concerned about the lack of ground troops in Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Despite the insistence of President Bush and members of his cabinet that all is well, the war in Afghanistan has gone less smoothly than many had hoped,' Apple contended, later adding, 'Signs of progress are sparse.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
On
Saturday Night Live,
the master impersonator Darrell Hammond, as Dick Cheney, announced that the undisclosed location was, in fact, Kandahar, Afghanistan, and that he would be acting as a 'one
man Afghani wrecking crew.'
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'But he loves deeply
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By early December, one month after Bush and Cheney spoke privately to evaluate progress in Afghanistan, the United States had destroyed Osama bin Laden's training camps and eliminated many Taliban refuges.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Discussion turned to postwar Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In many ways, Cheney thought the long-term consequences for postwar Afghanistan could be equally significant.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In Afghanistan, al Qaeda's camps had been destroyed, the Tal
iban had been removed from power, and Hamid Karzai-a leader committed to Afghan self-government-had been confirmed as
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head of state by the country's loya jirga process.
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Afghanistan's drug trade was flourishing.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
International observers thought that Afghanistan was not yet prepared to hold its promised elections.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Sometimes he meant this literally-the Northern Alliance battling the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
We know that when we went into Afghanistan, that he then migrated to Baghdad.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Dick Cheney: New Democrat?
O
ne month after Bush and Cheney were reelected, the vice president traveled to Afghanistan to represent the U.S. gov
ernment at the inauguration of newly elected President Hamid Karzai.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
His visit was partly ceremonial, of course -a typically vice presidential function-but given America's stake in Afghanistan's fledgling democracy, there would be important business to attend to as well.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In
2004,
a classified assessment by Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, noted a decline in extremist violence and concluded, 'Taliban and other terrorist elements may be on their last legs.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
According to estimates by the CIA, Afghanistan's poppy
crop had increased threefold since
2001
and now accounted for a disquieting percentage of its GDP And al Qaeda's fighters and their Taliban counterparts had escaped to establish pockets of re
sistance in the mountainous northeastern region of the country.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Others hid in plain sight throughout Afghanistan's larger cities and threatened the fragile peace.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Afghanistan's neighbors presented concerns, too.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The new leaders believed that President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan was not doing enough to control extremist elements on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And Iran was moving ag
gressively to assert its influence in an Afghanistan that had posi
tioned itself as a proud U.S. ally.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
According to the memo, Cheney's visit 'provides an opportu
nity to convey the strong and enduring U.S. commitment to a sta
ble and secure Afghanistan, stress the U.S. commitment to aiding in the counternarcotics effort, make clear our interest in a cabinet of integrity and holding firm on parliamentary elections on sched
ule in the spring, and inform Karzai of our readiness to negotiate a long-term partnership agreement with Afghanistan.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney was concerned that public discussion of perma
nent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan could have an unwelcome ripple effect in Iraq, where the first national election was sched
uled in a little more than a month, by making new voters there wary of endorsing candidates sympathetic to American causes.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There are many potential benefits to a long-term U.S. military base in Afghanistan, but [the Department of Defense] is concerned about making a binding treaty commitment.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The trip would be long: fifty-two hours from departure to return, with only seven hours on the ground in Afghanistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The temperature was below freezing when the plane landed in Afghanistan just after sunrise.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Within an hour, Cheney arrived at the heavily fortified com
pound in Kabul that houses Afghanistan's national government and was ushered to the 'presidential palace.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
There, he congratu
lated Karzai on the upcoming inauguration, and the two men settled down to issues: from the drug trade and threats by terror
ists to economic development and Afghanistan's often strained relationship with Pakistan.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Kar
zai, wearing his usual flowing green silk coat and lambskin hat, thanked the United States for its role in liberating Afghanistan:
Whatever we have achieved in Afghanistan-the peace, the election, the reconstruction, the life that the Afghans are living today in peace, the children going to school, the busi
nesses, the fact that Afghanistan is again a respected mem
ber of the international community-is from
the help that the United States of America gave us.
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Without
that help Afghanistan
would be in the bands of terrorists-destroyed, poverty-stricken, and without its children going to school or
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getting an education.
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He accompanied a very frail King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who had ruled Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973 and until recently had lived in exile in Italy.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Elections in Afghanistan had been delayed several times before being held successfully, and many of the loudest voices in Washington-and even some in Iraq-were urging a similar postponement.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
When Cheney answers questions
about the United States' efforts in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq, he almost always uses the word 'obligation.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
We also, as we went into Afghanistan, encountered significant numbers of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan that were either captured or killed.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The trip
would take him first to Iraq, then on to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Oman.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Bush and Cheney were riding high in the polls after re
moving the Taliban in Afghanistan; by 2004, they remained just popular enough to win reelection.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Since Plan
of
Attack was published in October 2004, there had been history-making events in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Douglas MacEachin, 'Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community's Record,' Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
R. W Apple, 'A Military Quagmire Remembered: Afghanistan as Vietnam,' New York Times, October 31, 2001.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
See
college experience accidental shooting, 499-504 Addington, David, xi, 182,218-19, 242,260,264,278-80,298-99, 313-14,317,323-25,333-34, 337, 340, 343, 345-46, 349, 434-35,478-79,488,522 Afghanistan, 145-46,352-53,357, 359-60,367,424-25,466-72 African National Congress (ANC), 287-88
Ahmad, Hashim, 245-46
airplane shoot-down order, 338-40 alcohol consumption, ix, 37-38, 75-76,125
Allbaugh,Joe, 274
Alliance for American Leadership PAC, 259-65
al Qaeda, vii, 295-96, 322, 343, 351, 357,367,386-87,424,439-45, 457-58,466,479-82,491.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
See Afghanistan
INDEX
Tames, George, 118
taxes and tax reform, 131, 165-66, 184-86,294-95,399-408 Teeter, Bob, 79,107,112,115-16, 120,151,153-54
television.
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See also vice presidency, Cheney's
vice presidency, Cheney',, 302-524 accidental shooting incident, 499-504
Asian tour concerning North Korea, 430-33
Cheney's candidacy (see Bush and Cheney election campaign) Cheney's personal style, 400-401 Cheney's influence, ix, 1-9,3 10 Cheney's unpopularity, 504-7 democratic reform in Afghanistan and Iraq, 466-77
Energy Task Force disclosure controversy, 310-18, 323-25 fly-fishing trips, 496-99 Halliburton contracts controversy, 436-38
inaugural, 302-5
intelligence and national security issues, 522-24
Iraq policy, 317-23
Scooter Libby and Valerie Flame Wilson leak case, 433-35, 477-79,519-23
low profile role of, ix, 305-10 Michael McConnell as director of national intelligence (DNI), 517-19
missing weapons of mass destruction controversy (see weapons of mass destruction [WMDs))
reelection campaign
(see
Bush and Cheney r4C[cction
INDEX
577
Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, 514-17
September 11 commemoration, 507-10
September 11 terrorist attacks
(see
September I I terrorist attacks) tax cuts, deficit spending, and Budget Review Board, 399-408 war on terror (see war on terror) Bob Woodward interviews, 510-13 Vietnam War, 40, 43-44, 80, 90-91, 125, 190
Villepin, Dominique de, 387-88 Vincent, Edna, 22-23
Vincent, Lynne.
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war in Afghanistan, 357, 359-60, 424-25,466-71
Warren, Earl, 50
wars.
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See Grenada invasion; Gulf War; Iraq War; Panama invasion; Afghanistan, war in; war on terror
Washington, D.C., 4-5, 47-56, 94-95 Watergate scandal, 69-71, 80, 90 Watson, Jack, 119
Watt, James, 173 Waxman, Henry, 317 weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), 394-422.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney had taken Schwarzkopf; Wolfowitz; Williams; Rob
ert Gates, a former deputy director of the CIA, now working as Scowcroft's deputy at the CIA; and Charles Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who had been back in the United States.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Once inside the gates, as the writers walked up the driveway and past the abandoned bank of television cameras that beam images of White House correspondents around the world, they heard a faint but familiar sound growing louder.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Within a month of Rumsfeld's departure, Bush and that new leader, the former CIA director Robert Gates, had decided on significant changes to the U.S. strategy in Iraq.
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See also
chief of staff, Ford Administration; deputy chief of staff, Ford Administration
foreign policy
Cheney and Gerald Ford's, 90-93, 108-10,113-15
Cheney's
interest
in, 31, 131, 145-46,157-58,166-69,174
-
77, 191-202
Henry Kissinger and, 73-74 Fortas, Abe, 50
Fowler, Wyche, 159 France, 387-88
Frank, Barney, 256-57 Freeman, Charles, 229-30 Freeman, Neal, 124
free
market, 63, 65, 67, 186 Friedman, Milton, 73 Frist, Bill, 400-403
Frost, Martin, 287 From, David, 344
Gadhafi, Muammar, 425, 486-87 Gage, Jack, 127, 137
Gallup polls, 106
Gardner, Bob, 130,132-33 Gates, Robert, 229, 515 gays.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Make the vice president talk about the ideal candidate, I naively thought, and perhaps he'd say some
thing revealing.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Bush's passion for these issues, say those who know him best, comes from his faith.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The less you say, he believes, the more people listen.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney and his friends say they can
not recall the details of that skirmish, but everyone recalls that the 'punishment' was a rematch at the C Club fights later that spring.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Sev
eral friends say that without Lynne's nagging Cheney would not have returned to Yale.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'To those of you who received honors, awards, and distinctions, I say, well done.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And to the C students I say, you too can be president of the United States.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
You don't ever want to hit one of those small towns without stopping by to say hello to the barber.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney would later say that he would have been 'happy to serve' had his number been called.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
So I actually went over and spent a few min
utes with Kennedy so I could say I had.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
STEPHEN F. HAYES
He didn't say: 'Hey, I liked your memo,' or 'Would you like to come to work for me?' or 'I'm sorry I threw you out
of
my office six months ago.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He doesn't hesitate to say `Get me Cheney,' if something comes up and Dick is the one close at hand.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
You didn't have time to sit around and scratch your head and say, `Gee, isn't this significant?' We were busy.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Ford, Rumsfeld, Cheney and I stood there silently, staring at the carpet, alone with our
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thoughts, unable to say anything appropriate.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Because he had been Ford's top congressional aide, he was overly conscious
some would say paranoid-about his status in the West Wing.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Principle is OK up to a certain point,' he would say.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
At the end of the day I'd go down for the wrap-up session and the president would say: 'Here, what
are we going to do with this?'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And I'd say, 'Well, we'll staff it out.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It would go through OMB and it would go to the Treasury and all of the other places that had a say in his Council of Economic Advisers.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And I said to him: 'Now, Mr. President, do you
have it firmly fixed in your mind what
it is you want to say to the press?' And he spun around on his heels and he jabbed me in the chest with his finger and he said: 'Poland is not dominated by the So
viet Union!' I just about died and thought.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Although he would serve as White House chief of staff, secretary of defense, and vice president, Cheney would always
say that he regarded the House of Representatives as his political home.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The first question you ask is, My God, can I keep going with the campaign and everything, having had a heart attack? The policy
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fallout from it-are people going to say, I can't work for him, he's not up to the job? Basic fundamental question of whether or not this means you're going to have to lead some kind of sed
entary lifestyle now and give up your political aspirations.
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'I had to represent the dis
trict, and that was important, but I thought I could be a lot more effective if I could say what I believed and speak my piece....
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
So when you get to the point where you say two-thirds of the members can come together and deny to the voters the right to be represented by this guy they picked, that's a big deal.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Reagan did not appreciate Ford's vacillation, at one point say
ing he hoped Ford would 'hang up his golf clubs' to take him on in the race.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't believe that any Republican or any Re
publican candidate should say that about any other candidate,' Reagan said.'
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There was a major hand in person
nel; he wanted to have a major say over the National Security Council and budgets.
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'It wasn't enough just to build up the military,' Gingrich would later say, in summarizing the group's activities.
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'I'd pick him up, go with him wherever he needed to go, and I'd say, `Hey, there's a creek nearby.
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'I never found in any situation that I dealt with of his trying to push you to do things you didn't believe, try to argue you into saying something that you didn't want to say,' Kerr explained.
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'Having visited Auschwitz, I can say that anyone who doesn't think there was a Holocaust doesn't have two oars in the water.'
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Cheney concluded his remarks with an admission: 'I don't know what Al's going to say.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
You have to say it's a pretty fundamental flaw that would allow
a lieutenant colonel on the White House staff to operate in defi
ance of the law.''
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'He wasn't willing to say that anything resembling capitalism is going to be the answer.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There I am sitting right in front of them and they say it's going to be Bobby Inman.'
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'He didn't say keep him,' Cheney explains.
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Colin didn't say, you know, obviously you can't do this or I won't work for you, like that.
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I do expect them to exercise discretion in what they say.
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'George Bush would say, `Go liberate that country.
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And no matter what he may say today, he knows full well that be lost two-thirds
of
his army, about half
of
his airforce, most
of
his weapons
of
mass destruction, a lot
of
his productive capability.
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'He left me with the distinct impression that he wished that nobody would bring it up to him, because I think he finds himself in a dilemma, to be honest, where politically he's not ready yet to have the president abolish the policy, but intellectually, being an intelligent man, he can't think of anything to say in its defense....
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having addressed this issue twice now in public forums, has yet to say a word in its behalf, really.'
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In these dangerous times, a president must always say what he means and mean what he says.''
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And then turn around and go back someplace say like Algeria where we could operate, did go head to bead, they would use the profits they'd earned in Iran to undercut you financially in a place like Algeria.
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'I'd say, `But Dad, don't you understand? Now I'm part of the industry; you want them to do well.'
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'And the other thing that I suppose affected it to some extent was that I'd been through the process with him, and when he said to me, now, `You're the solution to my problem,' it was harder to argue with because we'd looked at the available-and I don't mean to be negative on the other candidates out there-but as I say, when you go through one of these processes, you nearly always end up in a situation, it's a very short list.''
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'I think if you asked most people in America today that fa
mous question that Ronald Reagan asked-'Are you better off today than you were eight years ago?'-most people would say
yes.
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'We're lucky it didn't happen until after the election was over,' Cheney would say later.
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It's not to say that George W Bush hasn't had experience here, but Dick Cheney knows this town extremely well.
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'Suddenly, the man cam
paign critics once called a drag on the ticket is
everywhere,
creating a cabinet that some say looks more like Cheney's than Bush's.
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The next day, Lundquist returned to his office at the Senate, where, after an hour, Scooter Libby called to say that Cheney wanted to see him at one-thirty PM.
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I don't think you can afford to have a man like Sad
dam Hussein with nuclear weapons, say, in the Middle East.'
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An editorial in the
Washington Post
ten days
before
Clinton left office noted:
'Yemeni
officials say they have developed sub
stantial evidence that the bombing was ordered by the Saudi
born terrorist Osama bin Laden, and financed and coordinated by Muhammad Omar al-Harazi, a bin Laden associate.'
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The director of the CIA, George Tenet, would later say, 'The system was blinking red.'
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Bush and Cheney assessed the situation and discussed what the president would say in his public state
ment.
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'I think every
body was,' he would say later.
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'We were all dividing eighty by five hundred miles an hour to see what the windows were,' Scooter Libby would later say.
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I think a
lot of people emotionally
look at that and say, my gosh, you just shot down a planeload of Americans.
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'I thought, `Where did that come from? What a strange thing to say in the middle of this crisis.'''
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'I think probably it is fair to say that 9/11 was a watershed event.
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'Saddam Hussein, your old friend, his government had this to say: `The American cowboy is reap
ing the fruits of crime against humanity.'
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He was consumed-some would say obsessed-with preventing the next attack.
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Again, we have not completed the investigation and maybe it's coincidence, but I must say I'm a skeptic.''
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'The war is not going well and it is time to say why,' Krauthammer wrote.
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And
it
-I try to think how
to say it succinctly.
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The Iraqi regime was prohibited by United Nations sanctions from pursuing the technology for weapons of mass destruction, to say nothing of purchasing large quantities of uranium.'
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The time Cheney spends as vice president with intelligence officials 'involves getting the analysts to say more than they've written,' says one of Cheney's aides, who sometimes participated
in those briefings.
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Mrs. Wilson would later say she asked her husband, on behalf of the CIA, if he would investigate 'this crazy report' on a uranium deal between Iraq and Niger.'
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But others who accompanied him say that the United States' allies in the region wanted to have it both ways.
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To help mollify their own populations, several Arab allies asked Cheney to say something-anything-that could be used to demonstrate the United States' sympathy with the Palestin
ians.
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In a speech in New York that same evening, he fired back: 'What I want to say to my Democratic friends in the Congress is that they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage
by making incendiary suggestions, as were made by some today, that the White House had advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of
9/11.
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'I don't recall that these sessions were ever particularly contentious,'' McLaughlin would say.
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'It ended up that the WMD thing got emphasized as op
posed to, say, Saddam's ties to terror-I expect in part because it was easier, because there were a lot of resolutions already on the books that dealt with that,' says one senior administration official.
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Cheney would later say that he simply misspoke, and the transcript seems to support him: three other times on the same show he spoke only of the possibility that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program.
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I would say, three out of four lunches that he comes to he doesn't say anything.
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Says McCain: 'It's very good because given the egos of the senators, they can say, `Well, I told Cheney.
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'I've seen a guy come up to him and say, `We've got to reau
thorize the ag bill.
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You've got to get the president to say,
`We need this ag bill.'
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To say that to the senator-well, he took great um
brage.''
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'I'd say: first one's not true, second one is partially true, third one is true.
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If it's a member of the House who says that to them, they'd say, `Go to hell.'
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Grassley would later say that he wanted to teach Thomas about 'the respect he should have for someone of equal rank.
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'Cheney sits there and doesn't say a word,' says Thomas.
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When the former secretary of the treasury Paul O'Neill told a reporter that Cheney had said, 'Deficits don't matter,' Cheney did not deny the comment, though those who know his views say it was an oversimplification.
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'Dick Cheney was the chairman and people knew they were getting a fair hearing, and sometimes there were adjustments, and I would say one out of four or five, anyway.
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Those familiar with Cheney's thinking say that he was strongly opposed to any concession.
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'He did not very often say, `This is what I think we should do.'
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But what can you say.
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I must say my impression of him as a man is that he is very straight.
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I want to be very careful about how I say this.
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I can't say that.
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I can't say that it did.''
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Cheney, asked about critics who say he is the one who is sloppy about making the distinction: 'I try not to be.
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He had been on Cheney's staff for just four months, and having the vice president say nice things about him in front of the reporters he worked with on a daily basis would be helpful.
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He would sometimes spend hours preparing thirty-second briefings for Cheney, rehearsing his lines again and again until he had memorized what he would say.
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'Let me say first that I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter.
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'You saw a man who will do and say any
thing to get elected, and I am not just speaking as a father here, although I am a pretty angry father,' he said during a campaign event in Fort Myers, Florida
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All of the back-and-forth did not help Democrats.
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And I say that for a cou
ple of reasons.
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Nonetheless, several of his colleagues say that Cheney is a cautionary voice on the prospects for democratic reform.
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And one
of
the roles
of
a Dick Cheney, and anybody else, is to say, push harder, or push less hard, as I begin to calibrate.'
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It is a caricature of Cheney's views, say those who have spoken with him at length, including McCain.
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Though Rockefeller introduced his letter by saying that he wanted to 'reiterate' his concerns, those familiar with the briefings say it was the first time he had expressed any misgivings about the program.
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There's a temptation for people to sit around and say, well, gee, (9/111 was just a one-off affair, they didn't really mean it.
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Cheney liked to say that the policies of the Bush adminis
tration were the reason the United States had not been attacked again since the fall of 2001.
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'If I were enter
ing a contest to win a dream date with Dick Cheney, here is what I would say: We would definitely go fishing.
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And it was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life, at that moment,' he recalled in an interview four days later.'
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'That was great of you to say that, Mike,' said Bush, leaning over Pence's shoulder.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And he didn't say, `Oh, yeah, off-the
record' or `This is on background.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Anything you could say on the resigna
tion of your good friend?' Rumsfeld was still at the Pentagon and Cheney at first refused to address the sensitive subject.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And on the personal side, it's enough to say that I have no better friend and ask for none.'
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'All of these current players, Secretary Rumsfeld, Vice Presi
dent Cheney, and the President,' McConnell said in an interview in late November 2006, 'what's come through for me as a citizen
[I'm] no longer [on] active duty so I can say these things-they had first and foremost very strong political convictions.
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Weapons of mass destruction, which the independent group set up by Rumsfeld and the Penta
gon say ...
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And some jurors would later say that they found Russert's testimony, in which he denied Libby's version of events, particu
larly persuasive.
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I don't know that you're going to be involved in Iraq for decades; I don't want to say that.
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and Rice say they remember the conversation with Bush, and Bush described it in his interview with the commissioners.
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Steven Pearlstein, 'Global Recession Near, Some Economists Say; Confidence, Already Damaged by U.S. Slump, Further Dented by Attacks and War Concerns,' Washington Post, September 26, 2001.
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My friends think I'm exaggerating when I say that my job at the
Weekly Standard is
the best job I can imagine.
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A century earlier, Daniel Webster chose to remain in the Senate rather than ascend to the obscurity of the vice presidency, saying, 'I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
When he was running the White House for Presi
dent Gerald R. Ford, Cheney would attend cabinet meetings that stretched on for hours without saying a word.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'If the people believe there's an imaginary river out there, you don't tell them there's no river there,' Cheney remembers Nixon saying.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
One reporter said to Nessen: 'We remember President Nixon saying, `Nobody will tell me anything.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
When a White House fellow asked for a raise, Cheney denied the request, saying, 'If they're in it for the money, they should be doing something else.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Now, as the White House staff scrambled behind the scenes to neutralize the damaging publicity, Cheney shrugged off the stories on
Face the Nation,
saying that were 'irrelevant' and of little concern.
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But Jerry Jones, a special assistant to Richard Nixon and di
rector of scheduling and advance under Gerald Ford, disagreed, saying that Ford's two top aides were the class of an otherwise 'mediocre' staff.
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But at a Lincoln Day dinner in Hudson, Wyoming, on February 15, Cheney declined to endorse any of the Republicans in the race, saying that it would be dis
loyal for him to back anyone other than Ford unless his former boss officially removed himself from consideration.
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'I remember Bob and I talking about it with each other, saying, `This is never going to work.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney was saying the same things in private that he was saying in public, and to a far more receptive audience.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In the tense environment of a job interview, where saying or doing the wrong thing can kill the deal, Steen now had something else to worry about.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We didn't get the whole picture,' Cheney says, 'but we knew something a little shady was going on when they summoned us down to the situation room in the West Wing basement, and we
had the powers that be there in the administration saying, `You guys need to know.'''
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'He was either saying: `You are really stupid' or `You just asked a question you shouldn't have asked.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In the late afternoon of January 16,
1991,
Cheney's military aide walked into his office with a blanket and a pillow, then left without saying a word.
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He defended the decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq, saying again that Saddam was not worth the lives of Ameri
can soldiers.
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'I was saying, in effect, what was being done here wasn't having the desired policy effect on the other end, and it was damaging American companies.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The two men watched the fiery scene without saying a word.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He began by saying that he would be flying back to Washington immediately after his remarks.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Screw pilot discretion,' he would later recall saying, 'Bring 'em all down.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The FBI was called in to investigate and promptly put out a statement saying it had no evidence connecting the anthrax to terrorists.
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Cheney also recalled that in those few moments when he had discussed issues with Bill Clinton on Inauguration Day, the former president had dispar
aged Arafat harshly, saying that the Palestinian leader had ex
tracted numerous compromises from the Israelis at Camp David in 2000 and then walked away.
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And the segment of the briefing that generated so many head
lines and so much speculation came with a seldom-quoted dis
claimer: 'We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [redacted] ser
vice in
1998
saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of `Blind Shaykh' Umar Abd al-Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.
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Ford, polite to a fault, had a difficult time saying no, sometimes leaving his staff in the uncomfortable position of negotiating be
tween an OMB eager to hold the line on budget requests and a president willing to try to accommodate his cabinet secretaries.
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Eric Edelman, deputy national security adviser to the vice president, wanted Cheney to personally correct the record by saying publicly that he had not known Wilson and knew nothing of Wilson's trip until it had been reported in the press.
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'Lately, he's been saying he's proud that he and John Edwards voted no, and he explained his decision was `complicated.'
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'A new CIA assessment undercuts the White House's claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al Qaeda, saying there's no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored Osama bin
Laden associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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The CIA spokesman was quoted in that story as saying they'd not yet reached the bottom line.
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'Are you saying that it would be a dangerous thing to have John Kerry as president?'
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'I'm saying specifically that I don't believe he has the quali
ties we need in a commander in chief,' Cheney replied.
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Bush went first, saying he didn't know.
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On a tense elevator ride down from the suite to a previously scheduled rally, Liz cautioned her mother against saying any
thing she might regret.
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'I remember him specifically saying, `OK, we need your understanding to go forward.
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He offered his guests a beer, but didn't have
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one himself, saying he had lots of work to do on the flight back to Washington.
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Cheney defended the decision in an interview with Brit Hume of Fox News Channel, saying his first concern was for Whittington's health.
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And so-now, what does he do instead of saying, `Well,
OK, I look at it this way, you look at it that way.'
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But Russert contradicted Libby, saying he did not know Plame's identity when he spoke with Libby on July 10, 2003.
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'Members of the Administra
tion (incl the Treasury Secretary) have been saying that tax cuts (a) will increase economic growth and (b) will increase growth so much that it will raise revenues.
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Cheney's own longtime political mentor, President Gerald R. Ford, 'hated the job,' says Cheney.
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His ad
mirers find his demeanor reassuring: it says he is contemplative,
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unshakable, discreet.
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'Wyoming was different than a lot of places partly because it was an ideal place-the physical setting, the openness of it,' Cheney says, his voice softened by a fondness approaching sen
timentality.
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'There's an independence that goes with the West, and a lack of phoni
ness,
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says Norma Fletcher, a longtime Wyoming resident who was a friend of Cheney's parents.
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The more one says, the thinking goes, the more people hear.
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So when Cheney has nothing to contribute, he says nothing.
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Cheney's father 'offered his opinions reluc
tantly,' says Norma Fletcher, 'but people listened when he did.
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'They were fairly religious folks,' says Fletcher.
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'Of course you had to stay like you were skiing on the far right side of the boat all the time because if you got a straight line you were in the dirt,' says Cheney.
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'Her homecoming picture was the single largest object in our house,' says Lynne's younger brother Mark.'
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'The mood was gone,' says Fake.'
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'Edna knew when you went out like that,' he says.
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I remember him doing that to this day,
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says Castle, who has remained a friend of Cheney's.
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After lunch, students would attend lectures on how to succeed in college-'How to
study, how to manage your time, how it'll be different when you go to college than it was in high school, things like that,' says
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Castle-before adjourning for afternoon free time and athletic activities.'
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'These were the days before there were drug problems,' says Cheney.
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Fake says they beat each other up regularly that spring, sparring primarily in Cheney's garage.
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'He and Tom talked about hunting and fishing in a way that none of us understood,' says Jim Lit
tle, a close friend who was a product of public schools in New Jersey.'
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'I was not a diligent student-didn't work very hard at it, was
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not motivated,' says Cheney.
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'They were all smarter, taller, faster, and richer than we were,' says Pete Cressy, a classmate of Cheney's who was also a public school graduate.'
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'We were totally iso
lated as freshmen,' says Rees Jones, a friend of Cheney's who is now a well-known golf course architect.
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'We had no outlet for our social life,' says Jones, 'so we were involved in a lot of shenanigans.
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'The master of the college,' says Jim Little with a roguish grin, 'knew us.''
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'Nobody knew what the hell he was talking about,' says Ma
son.'
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'He blew lunch on the sidelines, wiped his mouth off, and ran back to the huddle,' says Little.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He laughed like hell when he told me,' says Cheney.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He had quite a serious dis
cussion with Lynne,' says Cheney's longtime friend Joe Meyer.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We still drank a lot of beer,' says Joe Meyer, Cheney's roommate in Laramie.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was the head cook for most of that stuff,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't think either one of us thought, cared, or talked about politics,' says Meyer.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I couldn't figure out why in the hell he'd go to the barber
shop,' says Cheney.
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Asked about the comment and the Vietnam War, Cheney says: 'It didn't figure as prominently in my life.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'In Wisconsin, they were an aggravation, if I can put it in those terms,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I thought, gee, I'd be a hell of a lot better professor if I'd actually run a campaign,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I had no idea what he was talking about,' says Tyd
ings.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was,' says Cheney, 'probably the worst interview of my life.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't think Kennedy realizes it to this day,' Cheney says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'At the time I didn't think much about it,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I became a great skeptic about the whole notion of wage
price controls,' says Cheney.
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The entire experience, he says, 'created strong feelings that I have to this day about the government trying to interfere in the economy-moved me pretty radically in the free-market direc
tion, the importance of limited government.''
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Asked about his decision to pass up the job at the Nixon re
election campaign, Cheney says, 'I made the right choice.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The understanding when I took the job was that I would get access to the president and that I would be Rumsfeld's surrogate,' says Cheney.
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Asked if he remembers the incident, Rumsfeld says, 'Do I ever.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The controversies over intelligence during the early 1970s, says Cheney, 'ultimately resulted in the passage of legislation that set up the current committee structure and reporting ar
rangements.
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'I think they undermined our capabilities in some important respects,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I went, in a matter of hours, from being Rumsfeld's under
study and his deputy to the guy who's trying to get him to do what the president wants him to do,' says Cheneyy'
Shortly after Ford fired Colby and Schlesinger, he left for Jacksonville, Florida, for a meeting with President Anwar Sa
dat of Egypt.
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'All of a sudden, I found out he was the White House
chief of staff,' says Joe Meyer, who had shared Cheney's squalid basement apartment at the University of Wyoming.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was the tough
est boss I ever had,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Everybody recognized how smart Cheney was,' says Nessen.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'News secretary Nessen says the staff is quite concerned that this is going to cost him votes.
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'I still believe to this day that if we had been able to put that to
gether we might well have won the
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election,' says Cheney.'
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'They'd started pounding away in Florida as I recall on Henry and on the canal,' says Cheney.
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'The debate was over whether we should fight this
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platform plank that Helms was peddling,' says Cheney, 'which didn't mention Henry by name but did everything but scalp him and draw and quarter him at dawn.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Nobody ever reads the platform anyway,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'You've got to watch vice presidents,' says Cheney some thirty years later.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He threw both of us out,' says Cheney.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Naughton was beside himself, he was so happy,' says Cheney, who instructed Naughton to report to Camp David at eight AM sharp on Saturday for the interview.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Part of it, I suppose, was hooked into the fact that we'd lost the election,' he says.
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environmentalists went after him,' says Cheney.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'If you were in politics in Wyoming, the biggest political plus is if you went to the University of Wyoming,' says Morton's wife, Kathy.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
That's exactly the way we wanted it,' says Cheney.'
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'I wasn't in his car for three blocks, and I realized this is an impressive guy,' says Vandel, who is now the dean of the school of pharmacy at the University of Wyoming.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'She corrected my grammar,' says Gardner.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'When I heard `Dick Cheney's had a heart attack,'' says Cheney's brother-in
law, Mark Vincent, 'I thought it was his father.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'You'll know exactly where you stood if you go do a poll, answer all those questions and find out,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
But he yanks on both ends, the rope unravels, and the narrator says: 'Dick Cheney.
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'I remember we'd be walking along in a parade or something and he'd be on one side of the street and I'd be on the other,' says Bagley.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I figured I wouldn't want to do anything in the campaign that I wouldn't want to live with after
ward,' says Bagley.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'In the fall campaign,' he says, 'there was never any question in my mind who was going to win.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'That was the trade-off,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The Cheneys and the Steigers spent hours around the hotel swimming pool just 'de-stressing from the campaign,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
('I knew how I wanted to run my campaign, and I didn't want to get a lot of advice out of Washington I didn't think I needed,' he says.)'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There was this one kind of huffy guy with crazy hair, who's running around talking to everybody like he knows everybody,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was not a glad-hander,' says Thomas.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Gribbin says the first six months of Cheney's first term were 'chaos, the kind of environ
ment a good management book would never allow.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'A mem
ber of Congress has to have policy views on everything from Nicaragua to the fix for Social Security,' says Gribbin.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We learned quickly that we couldn't send him mush,' says Gribbin.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The philosophy I started with in terms of Congress is I wanted to take that first two years, that first term, and really nail my base,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I didn't want to be a slave to the district,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There's an inherent conflict built into the two provisions in the Constitution,' he says.
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'I finished the
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campaign with a fair degree of respect for Reagan,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was a fairly short meeting,'' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We were clear out in the boonies outside De
troit,' says Cheney, 'halfway to Ann Arbor or something.''
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'So that was it,' says Cheney.
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'Henry saw this-would have seen this as an opportunity for him to reengage in a major way politically,' says Cheney.'^
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Ford 'put down a list of demands which he thought the Rea
gan people would never meet, but were so sweeping that if in fact they did meet them, he'd have a hell of a job,' says Cheney.
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'Casey comes in at one point with a piece of paper and a list of the stuff they were will
ing to do,' says Cheney, 'which was mind-boggling.
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'It was doomed to fail,' says Cheney, who believes that Ford never wanted the job.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Rudd 'wasn't very impres
sive,' says Cheney, and although Holt was a respected conserva
tive, she was heatable.'
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'Frankly, 1 didn't want Marjorie Holt to know that I was bucking her,' says Michel, recalling that he dispatched Kennedy to talk up Cheney to others in the Republican caucus, too.
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'Dick was not subject to knee-jerk arguments,' says Leon Panetta, a Democrat from California who served with Cheney in Congress and went on to become chief of staff in the Clinton White House.
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'It made the House a lot more interesting for me,' he says.'
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It wasn't what they had wanted to hear, says Steen, but 'they grudgingly made it clear that they admired his candor-and not that he completely won them over, but they were clearly taken
aback by plain speaking.'
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'I can under
stand why they did it,' he says.
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'There wasn't a warm and friendly relationship by any means, but we didn't
want the Iranians to win,' he says, recalling that he once met with the Iraqi ambassador to the United States at the Iraqi embassy in Washington.
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Cheney's daughters were 'freaking out,' says Benson, and his wife, remembering her husband's first heart at
tack five years earlier, was 'shaken.
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You can't have any vehicles-you can only go in on foot or horseback,' says Cheney.
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eney acknowledges that 'a lot of my financial support came from people in the energy industry,' but says his views rep
resented a majority of Wyomingites.
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'Most of the people who voted for me in
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were not wilderness advocates,' says Cheney.
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'It's important,' Cheney says.
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'We talked about it all the way to Moorcroft,' says Benson, who drove Cheney to his next event.
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'One of the best books ever written on the Speakers of the House was the book that he and his wife had written,' says a former speaker of the House, Den
nis Hastert.
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'Somebody was making home movies and had it all on film,'
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he says, shaking his head with exaggerated embarrassment.
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'They kept playing right over me,' says Cheneyy'
Back in Washington, the Republican leadership began to consider committee assignments for the next Congress.
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'He thought it very important,' says David Gribbin, Cheney's chief of staff.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was always a low-key operator,' says Lee Hamilton, a Democrat from In
diana who served as chairman of the House Intelligence Com
mittee when Cheney was a member.
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Then we'd see where we could find consensus,' says Hamilton.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I always felt that I could talk to Dick with
out him running to the cameras,' says Hamilton.'
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'That was the only time I could really remember that Dick and I were at odds on a significant vote,' says Michel.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He enjoyed it,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'In Wyoming, there are people who will sit at a town meeting for hours to nail your ass,' says Simpson.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was on a roll,' says Cheney, who remembers that Simpson ended his vituperation by suggesting that the veteran had 'been disabled because he'd fallen off a bar stool.''°
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'Old smoothie stood up,' says Simpson, and said, `Al's not feeling well.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't think I ever had that much nerve,' he says.'
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'I didn't want to see the president and his administration damaged,' he says
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'I thought there were people, certainly on the [minority] staff, who were trying to damage the president, and I took it as my responsibility as the senior Republican on the House side to do everything I could to support and defend him,' he says.'
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'As long as I knew him, he had a deep
seated conviction that the executive branch had suffered erosion since, I don't know, Watergate and that time frame,' says Ham
ilton.
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'He gave you just the sort of standard Marxist line-the only reason they've achieved anything is the exploita
tion of the working class-that kind of standard Marxist BS,' says Cheney.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'They maintained the fiction for a few minutes that they wanted
my advice,' he says, asking him for suggestions of confirmable nominees? Then the conversation got serious.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Jim put the arm on me,' says Cheney, 'basically pitched me hard that I ought to take the job, secretary of defense, if it were offered.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was a fairly easy call,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There was no change in tone,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Evans and Novak had to do a rerun that weekend-could not use that tape,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Boom, your House career is over and you're embarked on this new ad
venture,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It sort of fell off both ends of the desk,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I tied my tie and opened the door and walked out like I knew exactly what I was doing,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He wasn't looking to make an example out of anyone,' says a senior adviser to Cheney at the Pentagon.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The entire building said, `Holy shit,'' says another.
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'In fairness to Welch-I liked Larry Welch,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Jim asked me to intercede with Dick Cheney,' says Murtha.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Those are the kind of things we dealt with all the time,' says Murtha.'
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'Weirdest plane I'd ever seen in my life,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The Air Force, he says, 'was dying to use the darn things.'
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'There's pretty strong resistance in the intel community to taking a risky stance,' says McConnell.
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In an interview, McConnell says he decided to force its hand
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by consulting with Powell.
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'Standard, traditional State Department advice,' says Cheney.^'
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When they were halfway there, he announced they were unarmed,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The first plan we got back from Schwarzkopf was not very attractive,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I thought it was important that the principal military adviser to the president get a hearing,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In the end, says Cheney, 'George Bush wasn't interested in sanctions.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
The tension that resulted resurfaced when Cheney was secretary of defense, says Dugan, and Cheney only reluctantly promoted him to Air Force chief of staff in July
1990.
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The secretary of defense showed no anger, says Dugan, and did not raise his voice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'You talk about forceful decision making,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Nunn and Warner were so outraged by Dugan that they were determined to retire him as a two-star,' says David Grib
bin, Cheney's top legislative liaison at the time.
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'The services watched that very carefully,' says Gribbin.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Check back with me when you're finished,'' says one longtime adviser of Cheney's who worked closely with him at the Penta
gon.
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'We were just getting into the swing of things,' says Merritt Benson, Cheney's former state representative, who had accom
panied him on the trip.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'To give Gorbachev his due, I think he deserves a lot of credit for not calling out the troops when the Berlin Wall came down,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was alone,' he says with pride.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It was a serious look at it, but the answer was pretty unequivocal,' Cheney says.'
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Joe Duggan, the muzzled communications director for Cheney's PAC, says that David Addington informed the staff.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'A lot of the things he was overseeing as secretary of defense would be similar to the things he would be oversee
ing at Halliburton,' says Cruikshank.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'When you're isolated for about a week, fishing and sitting around the dinner table at night, you get to know people a little better,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'One of the things that was clear was he was through with Washington,' says Cruikshank.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He was never approached by Dole's campaign and says he would have turned the offer down if he had been.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Asked what he was doing, Cheney says he doesn't remember, but offers the most likely answer.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney later explained how, exactly, the sanctions affected Halliburton:
Cheney says he advocated lifting sanctions on Iran 'clearly when I was speaking with my business hat on as a chairman and CEO' of Halliburton.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I wasn't arguing a national security issue,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was more focused on the energy,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I didn't know it at the time,' says Cheney, now ten years after those attacks.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I didn't buy a yacht,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was enjoying very much the boards I was on, being chair
man and CEO of Halliburton, and making good money,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Cheney came down to a lot of our policy meetings and he was the kind of guy that-he didn't speak
a lot,' says Bush.
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'It became apparent to me that Cheney was the kind of guy that would be a good fit for a two
term governor from Texas who, while he had a pretty good po
litical pedigree, didn't have a lot of what they call `Washington experience,'' says Bush.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I focused on health, and I focused on the fact that I had ob
ligations at Halliburton, that both the president and I had back
grounds in the oil business,' says Cheney.
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'It was the kind of thing that would take a piece of my time, but then was defin
able,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney says Bush 'had a special feeling for governors,' many of whom he'd gotten to know through the Republican Governors Association.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'What happens when you start looking for vice presidents, frankly, is you start out
with a notion that it's going to be a real plus, that you're going to get somebody that's really going to add a lot to the ticket,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In the end, says Cheney, 'we weeded it down to a very short list.''
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'If the president of the United States asks you to do something, you really have an obligation to try to do it, if you can,' says
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Cheney.
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'I had a very conservative voting record, more conservative than most people realized,' he says.
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'Here we were in the middle of the headquarters and we didn't know what was going on,' says John McConnell, a speechwriter for the campaign who along with Matt Scully had been drafting a vice presidential ac
ceptance speech for an unknown candidate.'
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Looking back, Cheney says he is aware of the conspiracy theories that suggest he and Bush had struck a deal long before he was asked to run the search process.
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'A lot of people don't
believe it,' he says, 'but I really did not enter into the effort with the notion that somehow I was going to get the job.''
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Bush says that Cheney's debate against Joe Lieberman gave the campaign a significant boost.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Rob was very good because he could get under my skin oc
casionally,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'A lot of the preparation takes place when you're not sitting at the table, maybe nobody else is around,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Not good,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The Panhandle was still out,' says Cheney, 'which really fried us.
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'It didn't feel right,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was like a roller-coaster,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Then Gore calls and says, `No, I take it back.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I thought about it and decided I'd give it a try,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'For a period of time there, the
transition was an occasional press conference,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We got in the cars and we had to wait,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We got over there and made nice-nice and so forth,' he says, 'waiting to go up to the Hill.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It had to be tough what they went through,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It's a very different situation,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was a less-is-more strategy,' says a senior communications official at the White House.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He's very quiet in his advice,' Bush says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He is the E. F. Hutton of the Bush administration,' says one of Bush's confidants.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was persuaded that the only way it would work is if it was clear there was only one agenda in the White House and that was his,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'That simply wasn't an acceptable proposition,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I'm not going to sit through 100 meetings with
environmentalists to hear the same thing that just ain't going to work,' says Lundquist.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Had he proposed what environmental
ists had recommended, Lundquist says, 'the president and vice president would have fired me.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
So reworking the policy toward Iraq-in many ways start
ing over-was 'a top priority,' says one of Cheney's advisers on foreign policy.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The agency was working it hard, but they were told, I've heard, in
'96,
the operation they were trying to set up in the northern part of Iraq had been penetrated by Saddam and that they were about to get nabbed-and they did,' says an administration of
ficial.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't recall spending a lot of time on the USS
Cole
issue,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
But although Cheney says that 'al Qaeda was clearly known as a threat,' he doesn't remember being particularly alarmed by ei
ther the nature or the volume of the
intelligence.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I wanted them to put it out there, and I had the most in jeopardy because I ran those meetings,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
When he broached the subject with the vice president, he says Cheney responded sternly: Don't ever suggest that to me again.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'There wasn't any kind of alarm,' says McConnell.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Moments after the second plane hit, Cheney 'popped out of his chair,' says McConnell, and walked across the hallway to the office he had occupied as chief of staff in the Ford administration.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He put his hand on my shoulder and grabbed me by the back of my belt,' says Cheney, 'and propelled me out the door.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney says there was one reason for this call to Bush: to tell the president about reports that the White House had been tar
geted and to urge Bush not to return to Washington, D.C.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We heard Cheney was trying to get a hold of me,' says Has
tert.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was very steady, very calm,' says josh Bolten, then dep
uty White House chief of staff, who was standing at Cheney's
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Cheney says there wasn't time to consider the gravity of the order he had just communicated.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It was 'just bang, bang, bang,' says Cheney, one life-or-death decision after another.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Everyone had the same question, says Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We couldn't get an answer from the Pentagon,' says Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We talked, but it wasn't a long conversation,' says Hastert.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I wasn't focused on who as much as how much more,' says one of Cheney's advisers.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'That was a very emotional moment,' says McConnell.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We'd both had these important gov
ernment jobs over our career and part of the job was paying attention to doomsday scenarios,' says Addington.'°
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
And it was the kind of thing that was so significant, such a dramatic change from what had gone before, nineteen guys with boxcutters can kill 3,000 Americans, that it forced all of us to go back and look fresh at what had transpired, at what had led up to that point,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'They'd seen a lot together before,' Rice says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Anything that anybody told you you could do legally, you do it, because the thought that something else was coming was just ever-present,' says Rice.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He read every intelligence report,' says Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'What suddenly became really obvious was that we weren't prepared for a major biological event of any kind,' says Condo
leezza Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He became really one of the leading-probably the leading-the kind of tip of the spear in terms of homeland protection,' says Rice, 'especially after the anthrax attack.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
As the owner, Paul Nelson, says, 'We're for people who love a great hunt, but don't really want to rough it.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was as if he was taking a Sunday drive,' says Bohrer.ze
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Still, Bush says that he doesn't talk about the events of the day with Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'You don't need to,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He says it provides a helpful counterbalance to his own demeanor.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
I Cry, I go to see the fallen and spend hours with them weeping, laughing, hugging,' says Bush.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He's not one of those guys who makes long-term alliances,' says one senior administration official.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He didn't ask much on the WMD side, because the agency's position was clear,' says one official.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It wasn't the first time that I missed and others missed how it would be read,' she says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We should go back to the United Nations, get a tough resolu
tion that says, okay, Saddam Hussein says he'll allow unfettered inspections, he will go along with the will of the international community to totally disarm his chemical and biological and nuclear capacity.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'They were not presenting qualifi
ers,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney says that their case reflected the intelligence they were given.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The doubts were not what was being reported,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Tenet was fairly firm in his opinions,' says a senior administration official involved in the debate.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I thought he was at times cautious,' Bush says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was a good signal
to send to go after Saddam Hussein at the outset,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He wouldn't take my call,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney usually comes without a specific goal and says little.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He's very quiet,' says Senator John McCain.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I've seen him listen to some tirades from senators that would try anyone's patience,' says McCain.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He smiles,' says McCain, continuing as Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'What I try to do is maintain those relationships when you don't need them so that they're there when you do need them,' he says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Especially in the first term, he had a sporadic role as an emis
sary of the president in a particularly tough spot or where there were particularly difficult personalities to deal with,' says one senior administration official.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'When I'd get a phone call from the vice president, that was bad news, because he wanted me to do something,' says former speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
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'Cheney would call me and ask for the rundown,' says
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Thomas.
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Says Thomas: 'If he said, `I'm with Thomas,' it was over.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Nobody would have ever bet then that he would have ended up chairman of Ways and Means and I would have ended up vice president,' says Cheney.z'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'You knew it,' says the former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Mitch Daniels, 'but as with so many things about the vice president, he goes about his business quietly.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'If the vice president thought someone's appeal had merit, it was probably going to happen,' says Daniels, the former OMB director.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We were given the contents of what the report had said,' says one White House official.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The guy goes over there and comes back and says Iraq was looking for uranium.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
First, they ignored what was arguably the most important question: were the sixteen words accurate? Had Iraq in fact sought uranium in Af
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rica? 'I don't remember us ever having a debate about the truth of the allegation,' says one White House official who was involved in the discussions.
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'It was a process issue,' says Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was a disaster trying to deal with reporters on this,' says one Cheney adviser.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He was nervous from the very first day about Wilson,' says Kellems.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He'd go through an article about Wilson and freak out about specific sentences,' says Kellems.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Cheney's style, at least insofar as I saw it in those meetings, was to ask questions and not-he didn't really reveal his hand,' says Bremer, the head of the CPA.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
I don't know-there's all kinds of stories around all the time about how the people on his staff were working with the neocons at the Pentagon,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'My view, and thinking, is that there were milestones along the way that I would have expected would have moved things more in our direction, such as capturing Saddam Hussein,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It sounded like Char
lie Brown talking,' says one.
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'Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV says in a new book
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that he believes the White House official behind the disclosure of his wife's identity as an undercover C.I.A. officer was `quite possibly' 1.
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Kellems says that Addington told him to refuse Libby's orders.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney, he says, withstood one unfair accusa
tion after another without so much as raising an eyebrow.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I wasn't surprised that he told Leahy to shove off,' says Ron Lewis, a friend from high school.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
In retrospect, he says, the mechanism for U.S. governance in postwar Iraq was a failure.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I always felt that he was an ally,' says Bremer.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Says it, articulates it better than any
body else-than Powell or Rumsfeld or Rice.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'That came directly out of the agency,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The
Washington Post
says that the CIA has always doubted that it took place.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
On the broad question of the connection between Iraq and al Qaeda, Bremer says, 'I don't think there's any question about that.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'This idea that there was no relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam is just wrong,' he says with an incredulous laugh.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was mortified,' DeCleene says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The streetlights are little aliens, and they have the alien museum,' says Senator John McCain, who joined Cheney for the event.
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'Ev-
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erybody's enthusiastic,' McCain says, lifting his hand in front of his mouth as he makes a crowd-goes-wild sound effect.
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'I mean, we've got to be very honest,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He's very competitive about it,' says Portman.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We went fishing,' says Cheney.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'They brought his daughter up for political purposes,' Bush says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I don't know if I want to lay this one out there or not,' he says, but presses on.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The difference between the two was almost a sad thing for me,' says one of Bush's senior advisers, who worked closely with Cheney on the campaigns.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Now, if somebody is bearing the bur
den of responsibility heavily, I would have seen a change,' Bush says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He told us, `I saw peo
ple coming out of the jungles to vote,'' says one Republican who attended one of the sessions.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
It's not enough to go in and take down or harass those who sponsor terror,' he Says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It's not a romantic or idealistic notion,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Condoleezza Rice says that he is 'clear-eyed about how hard it is.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
John McCain says that the comments made Cheney look
.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
McCain says: 'I puzzled over that, too, because [Cheney]'s so smart.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'If you look at what the dic
tionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution,' he said on CNN's
Wolf Blitzer Reports.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Nearly two years later, Cheney says the political and histori
cal context is important.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He feels strongly about the need to have these kinds of tech
niques allowed in interrogation,' says McCain.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
McCain says that while their negotiations were intense, they were always professional.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He's straightforward, says he disagrees with you, he tells you why he disagrees with you, and you tell him why you dis
agree with him.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He says that the NSA's lawyers and its inspector general back him up.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'So,' McConnell says, 'I went from a one-star to a three
star.'z
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The debate recently about spying on Ameri
cans' was nothing new, he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It was their unanimous recommendation that we continue with the program and that we not seek legislative authorization,' says another participant in the meeting.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'She knew about it,' says the official.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It may be that part of the difficulty of having people accept what's going on in Iraq is that they don't perceive that it is an ef
fort to do anything positive or affirmatively in terms of dealing with the war on terror that they don't believe exists,' he says?
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We float out there and he's firing a fly at these largemouth bass,' says Bush.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Probably the big
gest steelhead I've caught-a few in the twenty-pound class,' he says, then clarifies, 'twenty-pounds-plus.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We got over there, a bird flushed, a single bird,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
('Sorry' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Lots of folks waved,' says O'Keefe, 'and most of them used all of their fingers.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It never goes away,' he says, shaking his head ruefully.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We're pretty much a seen-and-not-heard operation,' says one of Cheney's senior staffers.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It's not my job to go spin the press,' Cheney says.
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Bush says it's a quality he appreciates.
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'One thing about Dick Cheney is, you don't have to worry about him taking a politi
cal opinion poll and then trying to fashion his policy to make
him popular,' says Bush.
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Bob Michel, Cheney's congressional mentor and longtime friend, says he is not sure whether Vice President Dick Cheney is the same man he had handpicked to succeed him as Repub
lican leader more than a decade earlier.
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'I'd worked with Bob before and enjoyed working with him,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I was happy to do that,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
But, Cheney says, his cooperation was conditional.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'It's not true,' Cheney says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
But these are on-the-record interviews,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Woodward says he can understand why Cheney would be upset, but says he never thought about leaving it out.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Cheney thought such an adjustment was overdue: as Bush says, 'He was a more-troops man.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I agree with that,' says Bush, 'because there was a personal relationship.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'He listened very carefully, and
he listened very carefully,' says Bush.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
They had plenty of differences over policy-'They don't always see eye to eye on things, not by any means,' says Condo
leezza Rice-but they remained close'
In order to defend his old friend, Cheney would have to violate one of his cardinal rules.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'I called General Powell and we had a long discussion about it,' says McConnell.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'The re
lationship clearly soured in the current administration,' he says .
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'Frankly, I'm gun-shy now,' he says.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
Judy Keen, 'Cheney Says It's Too Soon to Tell on Iraqi Arms,' USA
Today,
January 19, 2004.
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Richard L. Madden, 'Ford Says Indochina War Is Finished for America,' New York Times, April 24, 1975, pp. 1, 19.
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Envoy Says Hostage Accord Sets `Very Dangerous Precedent,'' Washington Post, January 22, 1981, p. A21.
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'Iranian Situation -Cheney Says-'Let Dust Settle,'' Associated Press/
Sheridan
Press, January 27, 1981.
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Stephen Ohlemacher, 'Cheney Blasts Clinton Administration, Says U.S. Military Readiness Has Slipped,'
Cleveland
Plain
Dealer,
October 13, 2000, p. 2A.
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Ran Hutcheson, 'Bush Says Election Is Choice between Energy Costs, Energy Security,' Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, October 14, 2000.
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Ed Anderson, 'Tax Relief Still a Priority, Cheney Says';
New Orleans
Times-Picayune, September 11, 2001, p. 3.
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Anderson, 'Tax Relief Still a Priority, Cheney Says.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
He says that he suggested Cheney call Bush not because the vice president had overstepped his authority, but as a reminder that they should notify the president.
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Mark Schlueb, 'Terror Campaign Was Meant to Last Days, Senator Says; Comments Made after CIA Briefing,' Chicago Tribune, September 18, 2001.
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Richard Gephardt (D-MO), press conference, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2002; see David E. Sanger and Elisabeth Bumiller, 'No Hint of Sept. 11 in Report in August, White House Says, but Congress Seeks Inquiry,' New York Times, May 17, 2002, p. Al.
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Gromer Jeffers Jr., 'Cheney: I Will Be on Ticket; VP Speaks at SMU, Says Health Fine Despite Laryngitis,' Dallas Morning News, May 8, 2003, p. 1B.
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David Sanger, 'Bush Claim on Iraq Had Flawed Origin, White House Says,' New York Times, July 8, 2003, p. 1.
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The indictment says that the investigation began 'on or about September 26, 2003.'
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
David Sanger, 'Pakistani Says He Saw North Korean Nuclear Devices,' New York Times, April 13 2004.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'She knew what filling station we'd been to.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We'd never seen so many trees in our life.''
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'And we'd whip up a big batch of chili and leave it on the back of the stove.
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'And we told headquarters that we made the switch,
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but we'd never made the switch.
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And we'd bad a great rally the night before in Grand Rapids-brought the local boy home, his presidential campaign.
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'And he'd walk over and we'd visit a bit.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
'We'd inherited a mess in Panama,' Cheney recalls.
Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
We stopped our military operations when we'd achieved our objective-when we'd liberated Kuwait and we'd destroyed most
of
his offensive capability-his capacity to threaten his neighbors.
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Now, as you think about watching him operate over there every day, it's tempting to think it would be nice if he weren't there, and clearly we'd prefer to have some
body else in power in Baghdad.
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If we'd gone on to Baghdad, we would have wanted to send a lot
of
force.
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I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today, we'd be running the country.
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So I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the presi
dent made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the prob
lems
of
trying to take over and govern Iraq.
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We'd been through this exercise a couple of years before, where I'd thought about running myself and decided not to-partly be
cause I wanted to protect our privacy and didn't want to have to go through all the aggravation that goes with mounting a cam
paign.
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'We were laughing,' Cheney re
calls, 'because Gore was explaining the reason we'd been delayed and they hadn't been ready to receive us on time was Clinton had been upstairs pardoning people.
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'We'd see him on the screen,' remembers Rice.
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'If we'd have adopted a policy of letting sanctions work to get him out of Kuwait, we clearly would have faced a nuclear threat well before those sanctions had any chance of biting to the degree that was necessary to get him out.''
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The vice presi
dent is coming, they thought; we'd better get it done.
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Then we'd go in there and lay it out.''
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'My only ask was that if his daughter doubted my tolerance to her orientation that I would hope that he would help make it clear to Mary that this is a-I was just worried about-the reason I'd federalized the issue is because I was worried about the courts' defining the issue and that we'd end up with de facto marriage that was not traditionally defined, I guess is the best way to put it.
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We are vulnerable as a society to these people who wish us ill and are willing to die in the effort, and so we're all going to have to make some changes
and possibly accept some limitations we'd rather not accept, but it's necessary unfortunately in the time we live in.
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Remember, I did the game plan that said if we went without a game plan we'd end up with a mess, that's years and years and years ago, and then here we are and it's played out that way.
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The West 11 2.
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All this changes when Cheney talks about growing up in the West.
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Sitting in his home at the base of the spectacular Grand Teton mountain in Jackson, Wyoming, wearing old New Balance sneakers, jeans, a denim shirt, and a green fleece vest, Cheney relaxes his shoulders as he waxes philosophical about growing up in the West.
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CHAPTER ONE
The West
O
n January
30, 1945,
Yeoman Richard Herbert Cheney was scheduled to return home to Sumner, Nebraska, on leave.
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Cheney had grown up in Sumner, a rural, speck-on-the-map town 200 miles west of Lincoln, the state capital.
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DICK CHENEY LIVED
his first thirteen years in Nebraska before moving farther west to Wyoming.
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The family history of Richard Bruce Cheney, the forty-sixth vice president of the United States, is intertwined with the west
ward expansion of America.
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In the 1880s, he joined a growing number of pioneer families moving west in search of land and a new life.
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Millions of pioneering Americans preceded the Cheneys in the migration west, and millions more would follow, pouring into the lands opened by the growth of the transcontinental rail
road.
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Its mission was to promote soil conser
vation and combat soil erosion, both tasks crucial to the devel
opment of farmland throughout the country, particularly in the West.
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He was offered the choice of two towns farther west: Great Falls, Idaho; or Casper, Wyoming.
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Frontier Airlines touted Casper
as the 'Gateway to All the West,' and began direct flights from other western cities including Denver, Salt Lake City, San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
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As a young woman in the 1930s, she played on the Syracuse Bluebirds, a na
tionally ranked women's softball team that traveled in the region and beyond, playing top women's teams from across the West and Midwest.
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Two of Cheney's football teammates-Dale and Dave Wight-lived on a ranch ninety miles west of town.
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Students at Natrona spent hours cruising in their cars between the A&W restaurant on the east of town and the A&W restaurant on the west side of town.
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One frequent destination was Alcova Lake, a giant reservoir thirty miles west of Casper.
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The trip would take them from the open spaces of the North Platte River valley, over the plains of the west and the cornfields of the Midwest, to New Haven, Connecticut, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Casper was a young town growing from the arid and mountainous ter
rain of the new west.
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When Dick Cheney arrived at Yale he brought the west with him.
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Every Sunday night, a large group gathered to watch
Maverick,
a popular television show set in the old West.
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To his friends, it was obvious that Cheney missed the West.
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Cheney roman
ticized his return to the West, telling himself that he preferred
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Wyoming to Yale, that this job was a step toward fulfilling his dreams of traveling throughout the West.
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When they were, Solzhenitsyn's writings revealed to the West the full horror and depravity of Soviet-style communism.
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When
The Gulag Archi
pelago,
Solzhenitsyn's gripping account of Soviet prisons, was published in the West in
1973,
he became a symbol of the struggle against totalitarianism.
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His fights with oth
ers in the West Wing-particularly with Ford's longtime adviser Bob Hartmann and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller-were well known.
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In 1974, Congress ended the tradition of U.S. vice presidents living in their own homes by providing living
quarters on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory in north
west Washington, D.C. Nelson Rockefeller never moved into the residence, because, as Cheney puts it, 'he had a bigger house up on Foxhall Road.'
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Not long before Cheney left his West Wing office, his staff threw an early birthday party for him at one of the government
owned row houses across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
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Just days after he had cleaned out his West Wing office, Cheney and his wife had installed themselves in a beachfront house on the remote island of Eleuthera, in the Baha
mas.
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In the weeks after he left the West Wing, he fielded sev
eral potentially lucrative offers from firms in Washington, D.C., and New York.
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A disproportionate number of those VIPs came from a small state in the frontier West.
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'That is a concept which our Founding Fathers never forgot and an idea that we in the West have always valued.
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Four years later, as Baker was preparing to take over Cheney's old West Wing office as Ronald Reagan's chief of staff, he reached out to his former boss for advice.
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The Reagan administration and its allies believed that the communist government in Managua, backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union, posed a threat to peace and stability in the West
ern Hemisphere.
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In the West, the reforms were greeted with great optimism and, in Cheney's view, hyped beyond their real significance.
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'Along Highway 8, the east-west route that ran from An Na
siriyah to Basra, the American soldiers could tell that Saddam Hussein was mercilessly putting down the rebellion,' wrote Mi
chael Gordon and Bernard Trainor in
The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf.
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'I think he deserves some credit, but I think he discovered that the place was coming apart, that they couldn't compete with the West economically, and they couldn't even keep up militarily.
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He gave a talk to the New Hampshire Federa
tion of Republican Women; an address to the Young Republicans' national convention in Charleston, West Virginia; a corporate speech at a dude ranch in Colorado; a lecture in New Mexico.
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At one filling station along a highway in the West, a man at the next pump studied him intently and then wandered over to inquire about the familiar face.
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And the campaign was happy to put on display his plainspoken west
ern conservatism.
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On the west front of the Capitol the bitterness of the previ
ous three months was, if not forgotten, at least mostly set aside
304
for the day.
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A renovation of the White House was under way, with paint
ers and carpet layers at work in the hallways and in many West Wing offices.
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Cheney met briefly in his West Wing office with Scooter Libby.
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The office-longer than it is wide, with high ceilings-is quite spacious, particularly for the cramped West Wing.
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Libby hurried back across West Executive Avenue-the al
leyway between the White House and the Old Executive Office Building-to rejoin his boss.
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As word of the attacks spread throughout the West Wing, many White House officials migrated to Cheney's office: Sean O'Keefe; Condoleezza Rice; Josh Bolten; and the director of counterterrorism, Richard Clarke, among others.
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In reality, Bush flew west to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Just as they reached the front doors of the West Wing, the whirr of the heli
copter blades was at its loudest.
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The staff ate and drank alongside the pool on the west side of the large house.
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The group decided that a quick 'hypocrisy pop' would be more effective than a lengthy discourse about the na
ture of terrorism against the West.
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On April 5, 1986, when Cheney was in his fourth term as a representative from Wyoming, a bomb tore through a disco
theque in West Berlin, killing an American soldier.
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Cheney presided over the briefings, usually held in his office in the West Wing, but said very little.
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For years, these trips took the men to remote rivers in west
ern Canada, usually the Dean or the Babine, for some of the best fly-fishing in North America.
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'I was on the right, out to the west.
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Shortly before noon on March 6, 2007, the vice president took calls from his wife and elder daughter in his office in the West Wing.
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CHAPTER ONE: THE WEST
1.
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Adam Clymer, 'How to Keep Winning the West Is a Challenge,' New
York
Times, March 7, 1982, p. 2.
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William Chapman, 'West's Docile Conservatives Rebel against Big Oil in Wilderness,'
Washington Post,
February 7, 1982, p. A21.
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'GOP Veepstakes: Early List Includes Most of RGA,' National Journal's
Hotline,
March 13, 2000; Paul West, 'As Gore, Bush Sit Pretty, Aspirants Vie to Be No. 2,' Baltimore Sun, March 11, 2000, p. 1A.
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Michel's sense of Cheney's role on the new team-'giving a voice of moderation to what was really a right-wing conserva
tive leadership group''-was echoed in the media.
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'Right-wing Republicans may be on the resurgence just about everywhere else on the national political scene,' noted the
Christian Science Monitor,
'but they fared poorly in this week's
GOP leadership elections in the US House of Representatives,' as evidenced by the victory of 'the more moderate Richard Cheney.''
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'The greatest danger of the Reagan administration is that conservatives will decide they can trust imperial presidents as long as they are right-wing when they are imperial.'
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Increasingly, the war on terror was be
coming the 'so-called war on terror,' a derisive description that migrated from Europe and left-wing American websites to main
stream news outlets and best-selling books.
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Injuries were common, but playing hurt was a point of pride, and winning the championship meant bragging rights for an entire year.
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On February
24, 1976,
Ford scraped out a victory over Rea
gan in the New Hampshire primary, winning by a mere
1,587
votes out of more than 100,000 cast.
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He was alone in making such a bold prediction-Ford winning 371 electoral votes and thirty-six states-and it didn't take long for journal
ists traveling with the campaign to learn about the pool and to begin asking questions about the sources of Teeter's confidence.
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Naughton's superiors at the
Times
were so excited that they asked George Tames, the paper's Pulitzer prize-winning photog
rapher, to fly back from Florida to take pictures of Ford as he poured his heart out to their ace reporter.
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After sev
eral strong performances by Reagan in Republican primaries in the spring of 1976, the Ford campaign began to fashion a defen
sive strategy designed to prevent Reagan from winning the GOP nomination at the convention in Kansas City.
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In
Cheyenne and Casper, with populations of less than 50,000, re
cruiting a few top Republican Party activists could mean the dif
ference between winning and losing.
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With the primaries well under
way, Ford's prospect of winning the nomination was not good, thought Cheney, and his candidacy might fatally split the Re
publican Party, just as Reagan's had in
1976.
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In the congressional race, Cheney outpolled even Reagan,
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55
winning
69
percent of the vote.
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Many hawks opposed
36o
this plan, and now they worried that Rumsfeld was more con
cerned with field-testing his ideas than with winning the war.
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What's more, proliferators of weapons and state sponsors of terrorism throughout the world understood that the United States was deadly serious about fighting and winning the global
war on terror.
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Before the war, he had worried that invading Iraq would be a distraction from the broader war on terror, and afterward he felt that Donald Rumsfeld was more concerned with transforming the military than with winning the occupation.
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The winning days are quite memorable, judging from Cheney's vivid recollection of beating his friend Dick Scarlett
for the 'money fish' one day last summer.
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In 1979,
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Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, the first large Soviet deployment outside its accepted zone of influence since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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So weak is the assimilationist ideal that the two most visible American Muslim groups felt emboldened to condemn the Afghanistan war barely six weeks after the 9/rt attacks.
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By the end of 2005, only 59 percent of Democrats
(as
opposed to 94 percent of Republicans) still approved of the Afghanistan war.
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The Council on American Is
lamic Relations condemned the war in Afghanistan in October toot.
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And though Qaradawi did condemn the
9/11
attacks, he condemned with equal vigor any American response against Afghanistan and any Arab govern
ment that offered any aid to the United States against bin Laden: 'A
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GOAL FIVE: Win the War on Terror
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Muslim is forbidden from entering into an alliance with a non
Muslim against another Muslim....
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Qaradawi urged a jihad against any Amer
ican forces to enter Afghanistan, just as was waged 'during the Rus
sian occupation of Afghanistan.''°
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An estimated 3,ooo British-passport holders are believed to have undergone terrorist training in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
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American voters and America's friends around the world have come to see 'democratization' as a euphemism for ceaseless war: Afghanistan, Iraq, who knows what next-Iran, Syria, Somalia.
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It's a reasonable guess that had George Bush opted not to invade Iraq, but instead to focus on 'finishing the job in Afghanistan' and pro
ceeding with his domestic agenda, he would have lost the 2004 election.
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September
2009
Abortion, 93
-
94,99
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106,113,171 Abramoff Jack, 7, 168
Acid rain, 135 Adanu,John,178 Affirmative action programs, 74, 75, 81-85
Afghanistan, 17
Afghanistan war, 25, 26,143-44 African-Americans,
see
Blacks AIDS, 149
-
50
Ahto, Samuel, 102, 172-73 Al Qaeda,145 Alternative-energy technologies, 123
Alternative minimum tax (AMT), 64
-
65,90
Annan, Kofi, 24 Anti-Americanism, 142-43 Army Corps of Engineers, 72 Asian Americans, 74
Baby boomer generation, 62 Barnes, Fred, 5
Barone, Michael, 13 Bartlett, Bruch, 65-66 Bauer, Gary, 171 Beinart, Peter, 26
Bin Laden, Osama, 6, 143 Birth rates, 89 Bismarck, Otto von, 154 Blacks
education of, 74,75 incarceration of, 114 in law schools, 84 Blankenhorn, David, 109 Bloomberg, Michael, 56,57 Boortz, Neal, 66
Brown, Smart, 161 Bradford, David, 67-68 Brooks, David, 22 Brown, Sherrod, 60
222
Brownback, Sam, rt5 Buckley,William E, 167,177 Burke, Edmund, 29
Bush, George W, 1-8
on affirmative action programs, 82-83
after 9/ it terrorist attacks, 27 Clinton compared with, 32 on democratic values, 163 economic policies of, 70, 73 in election of 2000,
10,
31 in election of 2004, 38
energy policies of, 128-29, 132 environmental movement and, u9
environmental policies of, 122-23 health care policies of, 42-43, 48 on health insurance, 45 immigration
policy of,
77, 85
-
87, 175
Iraq war and, 137-39
Miers nominated to Supreme Court
by,
169-74
on nuclear proliferation, 146-47 Optimism of, 17
on outsourcing, 158
Social Security plan of, 54 on stem-cell research, 96,98 tax cuts under, 64, 89
on terrorism in India and Pakistan, 157
on war on terror, 142 Bush, Jeb, 82, 99
California, 13
affirmative action programs in, 81
electricity crisis in (2001), 121-22
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illegal immigrants in, 77 stem-cell research in, 96 surrogacy contracts in, 97 Cameron, David, 124
Campaign financing reforms, I5, 56 Campbell, Alister, 23
Canada, 46
health care expenses in, 43 immigration
policy
of, 8o, 88 oil production in, 128 Cancer, 46
Capital gains tax, 63, 65 Capitalism, 23
Carbon tax, 67, 129-32 Carter, Jimmy, 70 Casey, Bob, Jr., 60 Central Americans, 75
-
76 China, 152-53,158,159 economy of, compared with U.S.S, 61-62
education in, 80
military capabilities
of,
161 Churchill, Sir Winston, 138 Civil unions, uo
Clinton, Bill, 81,178 on abortion, toz
on AIDS funding, 150 Bush as heir of, 3-4 Bush compared with, 32 after election of 1994, 31 environmentalism of, n9-2
,
o on nation-states, z1
Social Security plan of, 54
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55 Clinton, Hillary, 102
Coal, 130
Colson, Charles, 114 Competition, in health care, 49 Computers, electricity used by, 122
INDEX
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223
Connerly,Ward, 81-82,85 Conservation, 130 Conservative Party (United
Kingdom), 124 Consumption taxes, 67
-
68 Corporate income taxes, 63-64 Corzine, Jon, 56 Coyne,Andrew, 134 Crime, it, 11q-15 Cunningham, Duke, 7
David, Laurie, 124 Davis, Gray, 121, rzz Democratic Party education as issue for, 39 in election of zoo4, 5 environmentalism and, tc9 on health care, 42 historical base of, 25-26 Iraq war and, 137.
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But we can say this: In zooo, Bush won a victory that probably no other Republican could have won.
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It is hard to say for sure, but there does seem to have been a slight pickup in volunteering after 9/11
.9
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America's leading glossy magazine, Vanity Fair, respectfully profiled two college students who had produced an Internet documentary accusing the U.S. government of destroying the World Trade Center, inviting readers to view the documentary and 'decide for themselves,''
On their domestic policy records, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush rank as middle-of-the-road presidents, far less radical than, say, Ronald Reagan or Harry Truman.
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And what will Republicans do? On past experience, we will say no, no, no' as long as we can, but in the end we will give way
and allow the system to continue its long grinding slide toward ever
greater state control.
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Did I say 'little'? My mis
take: It cost the federal government some $188 billion in forgone revenues in zoos, or about two-thirds of the entire federal deficit.
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He did not say 'American democracy.'
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The first, say, $ts,ooo of spending-the money a family needs to spend to cover its most basic needs could go entirely untaxed.
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These are men who serve at the highest councils of government and can walk in the Oval Office any time they feel like it and say, 'Mr.
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Statement A: Those OPPOSED to this type of research say that it crosses an ethical line by using cells from poten
tially viable human embryos, when this research can be done on animals or by using other types of cells.
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Statement B: Those IN FAVOR of this research say that it could lead to breakthrough cures for many diseases, such as cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and spinal cord injuries, and this research uses only embryos that otherwise would be discarded.
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They say all politics is local, but that's not always the case.
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Those hopes, think it is fair to say, have been disappointed.
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But the level of deference these candidates offered in zoo8 would have been rejected as utterly inadequate in, say, 1988.
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One thing we can say: If we are going to incarcerate nearly t American out of every roo-and more than t in ro young black men-we ought at least to insist that American prisons meet the stan
dards of basic decency.
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GOAL FOUR: Green Conservatism
What voters say about the environment is not necessarily what voters want.
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Call this the Tinkerbell approach to policy: Clap your hands and say, 'I believe in alternative technologies, I do, I do, I do.'
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Or, as an economist would say, the marginal util
!'ity
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The prob
lem, they say, is that America imports 'too much': close to 6o per
cent of America's 2o-plus-million-barrels-per-day usage.
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Eighty percent of British Muslims say they feel more Muslim than British.
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As Republicans and conservatives, we should say: We will not accept defeat.
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The monopolization of power by authoritarian rulers deeply and systematically threatens American interests, and we as conservatives and Republicans must recover our voices to say so.
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It is interesting, to say the least, that France-the European country that does the least to accommodate Islam-has the best-integrated, least radical Mus
lim population in Europe.
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But Indians do notice the wide disparity in global at
tention and sympathy received by, say, Spain after the attack on the Madrid train station in
2004
and the sympathy rendered to them.
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The next Re
publican president should take care to say no more about democracy than he means to do.
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Dobson described that conver
sation on his radio program on October
11, 2005:
What did Karl Rove say to me ...
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But intellectually, we are (as they say in retail indus
try) selling out of inventory.
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But as Ronald Reagan liked to say, quoting John Adams, 'Facts are stubborn things.'
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Why were the McCain campaign's tactics so bad? The fundamental flaw of the McCain campaign was that it had almost nothing to say about the economic troubles faced by the typical American family.
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Wrong Lesson
#2:
Just
say
it
louder.
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If it's not working, say it louder.'
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Latinos have been hit dis
proportionately hard by the housing collapse-for many, an experience that will be remembered longer than anything that any Republican has to say about immigration.
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Ross Douthat similarly wrote:
If you follow the Douthat-Salam model, which Reihan has dubbed 'lower-middle reformism,' you're going to be crafting a message aimed at the place where the non-college educated and college-educated cate
gories bleed into one another-one pitched to the exurb-living college graduate who picked up a degree from a regional public university (or jumped from school to school and didn't finish in four years, like Sarah Palm), and who probably has more in common, culturally and econom
ically, with a lot of grads of community colleges and technical schools than he does with someone who went to, say, Swarthmore.
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That year, Republicans were much more likely than Demo
crats to say that their economic situation had improved-almost regardless of what had actually happened to them.
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Steve Farkas, Ann Duffett, and Jean Johnson with Leslie Moye and Jackie Vine, 'Now That I'm Here: What America's Immigrants Have to Say About Life in the U.S. Today,'
PublicAgenda,
January 2003.
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For their patience with a father whose work interfered with too many weekends and vacations, I say a fervent 'thanks.'
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Why did he appoint such consistently mediocre people to such importantjobs? Where was he in the summer of 2003, as Iraq began to go wrong? Why did he keep saying one thing and then doing the opposite on issues from
.
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Kroft asked: 'Are you saying, at security screening desks, that a seventy-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Flor
ida, would receive the same level of scrutiny as a Muslim young man from Jersey City?' Mineta answered: 'Basically, I would hope so.'
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According to the notes of the call, Mr. Dobson introduced them by saying, 'Karl Rove suggested that we talk with
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these gentlemen because they can confirm specific reasons why Harriet Miers might be a better candidate than some of us think.'
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But as President Bush himself has said: 'There's an old saying ...
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We need a strategy of 'second best' for Iraq
a strategy that says that even if we cannot achieve everything we wanted in Iraq, we can achieve enough to enhance our security and advance the fight against terrorism.
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Mr. Dobson says he' spoke with Mr. Rove on Sunday, Oct.
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Mr. Dobson says he was surprised the next day to learn that justice Hecht and Judge Kinkeade were joining the Arlington Group call.
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25 Will Lester, 'In a Surprising Shift, Gore Says He Favors Single-Payer Health System,' Associated Press, Nov. 15, 2002.
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n Jonathan Finer, 'Kerry Says He Believes Life Starts at Conception,'
Washington Post,
July 5, 2004, p. Ao6.
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The Soviet nuclear ar
senal equaled and exceeded that of the United States, and Soviet
supported terrorist movements waged war against the governments of Italy, West Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
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The urban part of Gephardt's old district ranks among the very most inegalitarian places in all Missouri: It takes in the gentrifying neighborhoods of University City and the Central West End, where live St. Louis's highly educated, its very rich, its wine drinkers, and its gays.
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Meanwhile, overgenerous social security systems (like those prevailing in West
ern Europe) have been shown to discourage childbearing, probably
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because the payroll taxes used in most countries to finance social security systems fall most heavily on people in their peak childbear
ing years.+°
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Many environmentalists are motivated not by the love of nature but by fierce antipathy to the technological and rational society of the West; not by reverence but by revulsion.
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Our problem is more than big enough: We are fighting a violent political movement, rooted in the extremist version of Islam propa
gated by Saudi money, that strongly appeals to second-generation Muslim immigrants in the West.
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Memories o£ colonialism still sting, and resent
ment of the West runs strong.
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He was calling on the nations of the West to advance their values
through
peaceful advocacy.
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It surely did not hurt business to accept assignments from Karl Rove-or to occupy a temporary office in the West Wing.
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In a world of intensifying economic competition, the self
destructive follies proposed by the new pseudopopulist wing of the Democratic Party threaten not just American prosperity, but Amer
ica's standing in the world.
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In three presidential elections in a row-1992, 1996, 2ooo-the winning candidate failed to win a majority of the popular vote.
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Meanwhile, it is the Republicans who are winning the hearts and minds of Middle America.''3
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Political success created a positive cycle: Winning elec
tions enhanced conservative political power, and conservative po
litical power opened enticing economic incentives for individual conservatives.
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The trouble with a campaign based on biography is that it can stay positive only so long as the candidate is winning.
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'There's a blueprint for winning it, 1980, there's a blueprint.
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Among the many things for which he is famous is his signature assurance: 'We are winning.'
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Exit polls in
the
latter year showed Bush winning an impressive 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.
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The zoc4 exit polls purported to show Bush winning an impressive 44 percent of the Hispanic vote.
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State-by-state exit polls showed Bush winning between 25 percent and 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in almost every state of the Union, doing especially badly among Mexican-American voters in Califor
nia.
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Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Some of my col
leagues were calling me a 'traitor,' which I found amusing since these were the kinds of liberals who wouldn't call a real traitor a traitor (like those 'idealistic' Americans who leave their comfy homes in the suburbs, move to Afghanistan, and join the Taliban).
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Not when we have troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.'
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And they believe the very same thing as that caller to Rush's radio show: that the United States attacked itself on September 11, 2001, as part of a giant White House conspiracy to smooth the way for war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
What about America's invasion of Afghanistan right after we were attacked on 9/11? Was it justified? Eighty-one percent of the Muslim-Americans polled said it was not justified.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Another showed him at the gates of heaven telling suicide bombers, 'Stop, stop, we have run out of vir
gins.'
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* Church, State, and Taxicabs in Minneapolis
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All the News That Fits
* Polifica/Science
88
Their Ideology (Part t)
Being Liberal Means Never
* My Read Wants to Explode
Having to Say You're Sorry
*
And Then There's the News
* The Passion of the Left
95
That's Unfit to Print...
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Back then, the Yankees' many critics (most of them sore losers from Brooklyn) would say that rooting for the Yanks was like root
ing for General Motors.
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And I can honestly say that during my entire childhood in the
BERNARD GOLDBERG
Bronx, I never met even one Republican there.
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And before you could say 'Jim Crow,' we were back on the highway heading south.
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It wasn't enough to say, 'Sure, women should have all the same opportunities that men have.'
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Throughout the '80s, I was, as they say, in transi
tion.
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These are not people who want debate, no matter how much they say they do.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.'
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They say 'them' as if it were a disease.
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'Come on,' they say, 'you're not
really
a conservative.'
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They're not bigots, despite what liberals say.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I part with a lot of conservatives who say there's no proof marijuana provides any medicinal benefits.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I say, so what? If someone suffering from cancer even
thinks
it will help, what's the big deal? The world isn't going to come to an end if he smokes a joint.
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Wimps to the Right
and weren't afraid to say so.
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And he goes out of his way to convey the impression that he's a tough guy who isn't afraid to say what's on his mind, no matter who might not like it.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But, you see, intelligent white people like Don Imus say monu
mentally dumb things like this mainly because it makes them feel good.
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He might as well have said, 'You see, Charles, I'll say any
thing, no matter how stupid, just so I can show you my racial sen
sitivity-because that makes me feel like a decent human being.'
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There's always the fear that if you say the 'wrong' thing, you'll be seen as a bigot.
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It's easier simply to say something dumb than run that risk.
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Let's say he isn't as egregiously ignorant as he sounds.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Let's say he really knows better but was simply being dishonest to show off his 'racial man
ners.'
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But there comes a point when you have to say enough is enough.'
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Imus, as
'just a white man,'
didn't have the guts to say any of that, even though he surely must have known that Barkley was speaking a sad truth.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
At least when Democrats pander on racial issues, you get the impression they actually believe what they say.
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But how can real conservatives favor racial preferences? How can they back an affirmative action program that gives some black kid from a well-to-do suburb of Chicago 'bonus admission points' for college at the expense of some blue-collar white kid whose father works in a steel mill in Pennsylvania or West Virginia? Yet, Repub
licans, by and large, either proudly support racial preferences, or, like President Bush at the NAACP convention, are afraid to even say the words out loud.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'If you don't trust me because I'm white and Republican, then listen to what Bob Herbert has to say,' Bush could have said.
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It is ironic, to say the least, that now, nearly a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation, much of the most devastating damage to black families, and especially black children, is self-inflicted.''
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I've spoken to people who detest Rush Limbaugh, and when I ask how often they listen to him, they say, 'Well ...
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
(Look it up, as Bill might say.)
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But nothing you say about Fox News to someone suffering from FDS ever makes even a tiny dent.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'No,' I would say, 'I'm not.
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We got along fine, mostly, as I say, because I usually agree with her and because she makes me laugh, especially when she says things like 'Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
She gives lib
erals, who don't need any excuse to hate conservatives, the golden opportunity to say, 'See, that's how they
all
are.'
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She understands that what you say is important, but in the United States of Entertain
ment, how you say it is even more important.
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After the vote to keep the
USS Iowa
out of San Francisco, City Supervisor Chris Daly said, 'I am sad to say I am not proud of the history of the United States of America since the 1940s.'
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
When you have contempt for America, you say such things-and you become a hero to the crazies on the Left.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I would say, `Please don't let me wake up.
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It's also that a lot of what the entertain
ment geniuses say just isn't very smart.
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You may not agree with the politics of fundamentalist Christians on gay marriage or a number of other things, but to compare them to terrorists is shameful and, as I say, not very smart.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Real Men say, 'Kill every last one of those bastard terrorists, and I don't care how you do it.'
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But why? I didn't say the Earth is flat.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I didn't say Mickey Mantle assassinated JFK.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
The Holocaust
did
hap
pen, no matter how many fools say it didn't.
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• Hurricane frequency and strength have varied over long periods of time
* The temperature of the ocean surface-which affects hur
ricanes-also varies over long periods of time
* The general global temperature itself has gotten both warmer and cooler over time
,t
Malaria, which liberals claim is a by-product of global warming, is common in Siberia, a place not exactly known for its heat
In other words, it's not such a conclusive certainty, after all (no matter what A1 Gore and the mainstream media say), that thanks to man's unconscionable recklessness-and make no mistake,
that's
why they hate global warming so much-we're all perched on the brink of destruction.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
If Bush says up, they say down.
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If he says white, they feel compelled to say black.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But don't ever say those words anywhere near anyone with Bush derangement syndrome.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But you also see Bush derangement syndrome in more respect
able places than Air America, like, say, the Mecca of liberal sen
sibilities, the op-ed page of the
New York
Times-which twice a week runs columns by Paul Krugman.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
At least the old guy believed in something and wasn't afraid to say it, which is more than we can say for a lot of his progeny in the Republican Party today.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But here's where things get
really
strange: It's not just liberals who say Goldwater became one of them.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Let's just say the feelings are mutual.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Now a lot of conservatives say the movement has strayed from the man who gave it its start in politics, and from his 'get government off my back' conservative values.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
And why they say, as a conservative Christian friend of mine said to me: Goldwater could have been a libertarian
and
pro
life; that when it comes to something as fundamental as protecting a human life, there's no contradiction in being both.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
So if the drivers see you with one of those transparent duty-free shopping bags with wine inside, or if you say,
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'Please be careful with my luggage, there's a bottle of scotch in there,' a lot of them won't pick you up.
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I even like the fact that on the rare occasion when he misses an easy shot, he says, 'Gosh darn it,' instead of what the rest of us say.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
No, it's the politicians who are too weak to stand up to them and say, 'Please keep your religion in your church, in your home, in your life.
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Being Liberal Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
The Passion of the Left
Mel Gibson says he's not a bigot.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Or at least you say the things you believe are honest.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'In vino
veritas,'
the Romans used to say-in wine [is the] truth.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I don't think you say stuff like that, even if you're drunk, unless it's inside of you, someplace.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But I can't say for sure what's in Mel Gibson's head, or in his heart.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
So let's be generous and say that he's a recovering anti-Semite, at least.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I say 'recovering,' because so far he's apologized about 42 mil
lion times.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Isn't that what we want from people who say bigoted things: remorse? Don't we want bigots-if that's what he is-to say, 'I'm sorry'? But the Left just won't let go.
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Change the Channel
Whenever 1 complain to my liberal friends
about the raunchiness on network television, they roll their eyes and say, 'Hey, if you don't like it, change the channel.'
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'We're supposed to care about the environment,' I say.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'So what about the cultural environment? Doesn't that matter?' 'No,' they say.
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'That's interesting,' you say, 'what's new on the fall lineup?' 'We've got a great comedy to anchor Monday night,' he tells you.
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Which is why we're calling the show Homo
Say What?
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If some dopey conservative has the gall to say we should strive for a color-blind America, liberals say 'color-blind' is code for 'racism.'
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Survivor's
producers say (with a straight face) they're not separating whites and blacks and Asians and Hispanics just to gin up the ratings.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
They say they're doing it for 'diversity.'
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W's Catch-22
Being liberal means never having to say
you're sorry.
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It means you can slander Ronald Reagan as the kind of crazy cowboy who would drag us into World War III, then never say a word when he ends the Cold War and helps liberate millions of Europeans who had been under the Soviet Union's thumb.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
It means you can fight welfare reform tooth and nail, then say nothing when it gives millions of poor Americans dignity by taking them off the dole and putting them into the workforce.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But let's say it anyway: If there is another terrorist attack on Americans, lots more reasonable Democrats will move to the right and enthusiastically support George Bush and his war on terror.
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And this is the stuff they say in public!
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People at the top-respected people with important jobs, actually-say nasty things about Jews and before you know it, lots of ordinary people feel comfortable spouting off about good Jews and bad Jews, and about that Jew who ran with Al Gore, and telling Jews who spent their whole lives in Israel to pack their bags and move to Australia.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
But anti-Semitism, they say, has nothing to do with it.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
I used to say these intellectuals aren't anti-Semites; they're
Crazies to the Left of Me.
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They say they're arguing about policy, but then they call Israelis the new Nazis.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
And just in case any
one missed his point, Professor Paulin went on to say, 'I can under
stand how suicide bombers feel....
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This, as you might imagine, enraged more than a few 'free speech' liberals on campus, and before you could say 'McCarthyism is back,' Paulin was invited to speak at Harvard yet again.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
At Oxford, some of Professor Paulin's colleagues used to say, 'Well, that's just Tom being Tom.'
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
As I say, reasonable debate over Israeli policies is absolutely legitimate.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
Novak has never had a good word to say about the Israelis.
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Pigs to the Right
His Brother Was Worse
There's an oid joke about a minister conduct
ing a funeral service, who requests that members of his congre
gation come up and say a few nice words about the deceased-a man widely known to have been a miserable human being.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
So the minister tries again, 'Will someone
please
come up and say something nice about our dearly departed?' Again, no one moves.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'Surely there must be at least
one
person in church today who will say a few kind words as a final good-bye.'
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This is not to say that there aren't a few profiles in courage in Washington.
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And for us to say, `Well, you know, we just can't think about that, we'll just put that aside, because, call it political correctness, call it anything, we just won't think about it because it makes us feel uncomfortable,' is an appalling malfeasance.'
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'Dumbo,' I say, 'this is insane.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'Islam is not a religion like most of the others,' I say.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
'They don't say, `We're a religion of peace and if you don't believe us we'll kill you.'
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We all know about the radical Muslims, but too many 'good Muslims' just sit there silently while the radicals com
mit horrendous acts of violence, and then say that while they may not actually condone the violence, they understand it.
Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve
He knows his audience so well, we're told, that some say he has the 'Disney touch.'
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The people who have told us about the sheikh's 'Disney touch' appar
ently have nothing to say about this.
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'We were doing just fine down here,' they would say with a straight face, 'until those outsiders came in and riled up our Negroes.'
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No one wants to say it out loud, but a lot of Americans (like my friend) don't trust the Muslims in our midst today, either; because except for a few brave ones, they haven't spoken up against their fellow Muslims with anything like a loud, clear, unified voice.
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We can say, 'These slime merchants are destroying political discourse in the country and we refuse to pretend that they're the kind of people who should be taken seriously.'
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And President Bush has the gall to look the American people in the eye and say we're not torturing these poor people.
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I say this not only as a journalist but also as someone who appre
ciates disingenuousness as much as the next guy: Bull! The cartoons should have been published, so readers would know exactly what touched off the widespread violence in the first place.
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The
Times,
as much as I hate to say it, has enormous impact on our lives.'
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Sure they acknowledge the obvious-that it's good that the tyrant is no longer around and in power-but they sound bored when they say it.
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Democrats say Iraq is the ghost of Vietnam.
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And while most Muslims say they feel loyalty to Britain, nearly one in five British Muslims-18 percent-claimed to feel little or no loyalty to their country at all.
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only going to defeat it if you say: `You're actually wrong if you
feel
those things.''
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and not merely say `You are wrong to kill people through terror
ism, you are wrong to incite terrorism or extremism'-but actually, `You are wrong about your view about the West, you are wrong about your sense of grievance.'
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Now my view is that until you challenge that at its root, fundamentally, then you're always going to be left with a situation where people kind of say .
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He has guts to say out loud what the wimps and cowards on the Right and the Left are too afraid to say: that Muslims have it good in England.
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As a former colleague of mine, a Cuban-American cameraman at the CBS News bureau in Miami, used to say, 'If you don't like it here, you can move.'
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Wimps to the Right
say the dumbest things.
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I know, I know it's just what they say because they hate him.
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I never quite understood what that meant, but I knew it wasn't the kind of thing you say to a president of the United States, even one as smarmy as Nixon.
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But Dan didn't say that.
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Some of us at CBS used to say that being on television was like being on crack.
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But as they say: That was then and this is now.
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But Ahmadinejad never really did, except to finally say, as he has before, that Israel should be somewhere else, like Germany.
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Nor were there any historians, people who would have been able to say that Ahmadinejad is not the first leader of an undemocratic country to speak in platitudes about how much he longs for peace, justice, and fairness.
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The media have a responsibil
ity 'to go to those people [making the accusations of racism] and say, `put up or shut up.'
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Of course, you'd have to be smoking something illegal to think the publisher of the
New York Times
would actually say anything like that.
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So the editorial went on to say, 'It should have come as no surprise that conservatives, protective of Mr. Reagan's image at all times, would launch one of the fierce assaults that have become so familiar whenever the right wants to scare the media on an ideo
logical question.'
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It's good to see that the
New York
Times is troubled by Soviet-style chills now that the Soviet Union has crumbled and it's safe to say such things, especially about conservatives in America.
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Why didn't I think of that? Never mind that the gov
ernment
didn't say you can't bring books on board; that an airline executive did-and a foreign one at that.
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'But if we do it your way,' I told each of them in separate con
versations, 'it will take years and years to achieve the kind of racial equality you say you're looking for.
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But what about merit, you say.
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So if the white male candidate were to 'win' the vote by, say, nine percentage points-he would in fact lose the election, because of the ten bonus points.
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'Senator Ted Stevens,' he would say, for example.
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Then Bob Barker would spin the other revolving drum, reach in, and this time come up with, say, 'Wyoming'-which means that Robert C. Byrd, who used to represent West Virginia, would now be the U.S. senator from the great state of Wyoming, serving people who didn't vote for him and can't reelect him no matter how many Institutes for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing he builds with tax
payer money in Wyoming.
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Let me also say a few words about my friends at the William Morris Agency Jim Griffin and Mel Berger-who when I once
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publicly thanked them 'for sticking with me through thick' .
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What we really were saying was that we not only knew better but that we
were
better.
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I started out by saying, 'There are lots of reasons fewer and fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us.
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A professor at my old alma mater, Rut
gers, sent an e-mail to her students, saying, 'We should be aware
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Coulter was saying, screw that! If you enter the political fray, if you take sides, then you open yourself up to criticism-even if your husband was killed on 9/11 or your son was killed in a war.
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I'm not saying he can single-handedly put an end to the ugliness that emanates from the beautiful people, but I think he, of all people out there, might be able to get them to tone down the rhetoric.
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All of this reminds me of those folks you see from time to time on the side of the road with posters saying war is bad.
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In a very calm and gentle tone one might use when speaking to a moron, he asks me, 'Are you convinced that gravity is real?' That was a nice way, I guess, of saying,
'You're a crackpot!'
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They put together a montage of conservative voices saying the words 'World War III' over and over and over again.
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They live like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans, as the old saying goes.
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Still, I certainly am not saying it's wrong for religious organiza
tions to ever get involved in important political issues.
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Instead of simply saying 'As a matter of fact I do,' I probed further, mostly because I knew how much this was knnoying my liberal friends.
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President Bush has even weighed in on the great debate, saying that public schools should present the concept of Intelligent Design along with evolution when teach
ing about the origins of life.
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Neither homo understands what the other one is saying.
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A conservative, don't forget, is a liberal who's been mugged by reality, as the saying goes.
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Indeed they are, Lanny-certainly nicer than what a lot of your liberal friends have been saying about conservatives for many, many years now.
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Can you imagine if Met Gibson, instead of saying 'the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,' had substituted 'Israe
lis' for 'Jews'? A simple, one-word edit in his drunken tirade and he 'would have [been] a darling of right-thinking progressives the world over,' as Bret Stephens put it in the
Wall Street Journal.
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But that's not saying much these days.
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'I know it from talking to police, I know it from talking to people in the community, I know it from a mosque in my own dis
trict [some of whose members] for months after 9/11 were saying
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that the Jews could have attacked the World Trade Center and it wasn't bin Laden.
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But now, he went on, 'I'm sick of saying the truth only in private-that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large.'
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The reporters are saying that Israeli rockets have hit an apart
ment building in a Lebanese village called Qana and that many civilians-more than fifty, they think-have been killed; half of them children, the youngest only ten months old.
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And no one is saying the other stuff was a walk in the park.
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I thought it was nothing more than another pathetic, goofy, liberal Democrat simply doing what comes naturally: saying whatever it takes just to score a few cheap political points.
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I began by saying I now have second thoughts about Senator Dick Durbin.
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'Not our kind of people, or our readers' kind of people,' you can practically hear the elitists saying at the
New York Times.
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Wimps to the Right
don't need no stinking conservative principles,'
he might as well be saying.
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In Multicultural America, anyone who gets angry at the sight of half a million protesters in the streets of Los Angeles-many of them illegal immigrants waving Mexican flags and saying 'We have a right to be here'-is a bigot.
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Stop the illegal flow first, a lot of us are saying.
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'She's the Jackie Robinson of network news,' Maureen Dowd of the
New York Times
quotes him as saying.
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Just how tough do you really have to be to support liberal causes inside the liberal bubble where just about everyone you know holds the exact same position as you do? Standing in the middle of the newsroom at the New York Times and
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saying, 'You know, I really like Bill O'Reilly and think he makes a lot of sense' would take courage.
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There was smiling, laughing, and finally Mike saying: 'Let me assure you, you look your best.'
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But, you may be saying, aren't those news executives who work at major media news organizations ideologues? Yes, some are.
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'It is not difficult,' the editorial said, 'to see why people close to Mr. Reagan would be upset that the script quoted him, for example, on the subject of AIDS suffer
ers as saying, in an invented quotation, `They that live in sin shall die in sin.''
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If you vote for the 'incompetent' and 'arro
gant' winner why shouldn't you have to apologize to all the 'smart' people who voted for the loser? Makes sense to me, though I'm not sure exactly how you would go about saying 'I'm sorry' to 50 mil
lion people or so.
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A conservative friend says too many Democrats seem to think that if we only raise the minimum wage and sign the Kyoto Accords, the terrorists will like us and go away.
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There's a phrase in today's world of sports, which says it all: 'Man Up!'
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'White guilt,' Steele says, 'does not depend on the goodwill or the genuine decency of people.
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Ward Connerly says he's seen it happen.
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I agree with a lot of what she says, and besides, she makes me laugh.'
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Then, after
100 People
came out, I did lots of interviews pro
moting the book, and more than a few times I was asked, 'If you're so concerned about civility, why isn't Ann Coulter in your book?' 'Yes, Ann says outrageous things,' I would concede.
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'But she says them with a twinkle in her eye.'
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'If we are in a battle for the hearts and minds of people around the world, as the administration says we are,' Schieffer said, 'I won't feel very secure if the people around the world believcf we are no different than our enemies.'
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It says: 'You see, I'm on the moral high ground.
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John Wayne, Cirly Men, and the Democratic Party
So I'm listening to Rush Limbaugh, and this
guy named Bill comes on and says he's had it with SNAGS.
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Finding some idiot who says it doesn't would indeed be irresponsible.
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As for Mr. Doomsday: 'A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach,' the professor says, 'is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing.
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And just how do you adapt? Well, instead of imbibing hot tod
dies when the weather is balmy in the middle of winter, the
Times
says you might want to consider downing a few cold toddies!
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Ms. Vowell says she attended President Bush's inauguration in 2001 and when he took the oath of office-ready for this?
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'In short,' Sager says, 'the agenda of the social Right changed from keeping the government away from our nation's morality (opposing a ban on prayer in schools, opposing forced busing, opposing sex education) to insisting that the federal government be our moral arbiter (demanding money for faith-based-initiatives, demanding abstinence education, demanding that a ban on gay marriage be written into the Constitution).'
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Yet right there in the letter it says, 'our Reform Jewish Movement has had a voice in Washington that speaks truth to power.'
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So, the Muslim American Society's Minnesota chapter sent a fatwa-a religious edict-to the people who run the Minneapolis airport, which says 'Islamic jurisprudence' prohibits taxi drivers from car
rying passengers with alcohol, 'because it involves cooperating in sin according to Islam.'
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But who are we kidding? As a politician, he figures he can get points from conservative Christians when he says things like that, no matter how bogus and devoid of actual
science
they may be.
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He says he's
not an anti-Semite.
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'The gay Mus
lim, in a very swishy high-pitched voice, says: `If you don't let me out of here I'll blow up the police station-or paint it a really ugly color.'
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l
'Then the Muslim guy says, `I know my rights: Get me a law
yer.
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One day she says to them, `Is it because I'm vertically challenged?' It takes her ten min
utes to get the word 'vertically' out of her mouth, because she's stuttering so much.
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'Oh yeah, the Muslim homo is a little hard of hearing and every time the nymphomaniac midget asks him if he wants to do it, `or what,' the Muslim says
`What?'
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'The show has the potential to set back our nation's race relations by fifty years,' he says.
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A professor at Northwestern University, Lawrence Lichty says it's 'a step backward'-one that 'sure sounds dangerous to me.'
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It's the same with trickle-down bigotry, he says.
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Ruth Wisse, who teaches at Harvard, says that some of our fin
est universities, including her own, 'have gone out of their way to invite speakers best known for their defamation of Israel and the Jews.'
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But when the hard Left continually bashes Israel, using
the
most inflammatory language-and says far, far less about other countries, whose human rights records are far, far worse-then you have to wonder if this is simply legitimate debate or just old-fashioned Jew-bashing dressed up to look respectable.
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BERNARD GOLDBERG
I think Mort Zuckerman, the media mogul, is on to something when he says, 'Israel has become the Jew among nations.
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This assortment of leftists, she says, 'have one standard for Israel: an impossibly high one.
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'Today,' she says, 'anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism.'
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In 2005, the libertarian Cato Institute issued a report called 'Grand Old Spending Party,' which says, 'When a Republican
controlled Congress was facing the big-spending tendencies of
a Democratic White House, they were more apt to fight to keep spending under control.
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'The GOP was once effective at controlling non-defense spend
ing,' the Cato report says.
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As the Cato report says, 'Throughout the past 40 years, most presidents have cut or restrained lower-priority spending to make room for higher-priority spending.
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Here's how it works: Members of Congress, who too often are nothing more than glorified errand boys and girls, get a call from some local political hack back in the home district, who says, 'You know, we sure could use some money for that tomato museum we've been wanting to build.
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In its 2006 'Pig Book Summary,' Citizens Against Govern
ment Waste says, 'The guilty pleas of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep.
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'Arab Free Airlines,' he says without a hint of humor.
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'Fine,' he says, without missing a beat.
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'Gone are the empty threats made by President Gamal Abdel Nasser's official radio station during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to push the Jews into the sea even as Israel seized Jerusalem,
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the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula,' the
Times
story says.
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Instead, the Arab world now has a real man, the story says, 'a 46-year-old Lebanese militia chieftain hiding in a bunker, combin
ing the scripted logic of a clergyman with the steely resolve of a general to completely re-write the Arab-Israeli land feud.'
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At the end of the
Times
piece, we hear from a few Arabs who don't like the sheikh, including a secretary who says that Nasrallah 'is solely responsible for all the destruction.'
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'It's part of the culture,' he says.
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Yet even Bill, who understands the war on terror better than most who make a living in television, says it doesn't matter what the facts turn out to be-it won't make a bit of difference in the Arab world.
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It makes him angry, he says, and starts his day off all wrong.
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He used to read the
Times
religiously, but it's just gotten too ideological, he says-and not just on the editorial page.
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No editor wants to needlessly offend people of faith-especially, as the
Times
says, when it's so easy to describe the cartoons in words.
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So despite what the
Times
says, this isn't about respect.
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Because focusing on America's faults fits the template, the pre
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conceived storyline, the one that says, 'Yes, the terrorists are bad, but so are we.'
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How can you feel a part of something when you literally don't understand what's going on?' Assimilation matters, he says.
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But, as my pal Burt Prelutsky, who lives in southern California, says, 'Gussy it up any which way you like, it's still amnesty.'
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'Imam,' Mike said, 'President Sadat of Egypt says what you are doing is, quote, `a disgrace to Islam.'
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We established a 'study group' to find out what went wrong in Iraq, he says, and we should do the same with Katrina.
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So when President Bush arrives to tour the devastation, puts his arm around FEMA director Michael Brown, and says, 'Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job,' you have to wonder what in the
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world he's thinking.
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Only 8 percent of people who do this, he says, wind up poor, while 79 percent who
fail
to do it end up in poverty.
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Bill Keller is absolutely correct when he says there is a large wall that separates his domain at the Times-the supposedly objective news side of the paper-from his boss's domain-the opinion side.
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So what does David think we should do about all those morons who voted for W the sec
ond time around? They 'should be apologizing,' he says, 'to those who knew better when it mattered most'-that
is, before
George W. Bush won reelection.
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If the kids whose lives were being destroyed in New Orleans and a hundred other American cities were white, I'm pretty sure we'd be getting a lot more than platitudes and finger
pointing.
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We'd be asking the hard questions and demanding real answers.
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If Ameri
cans were so dumb that they actually would elect this conservative from out West, then it was time for us to go.
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They were the new media elite-big, powerful, and hopelessly out of touch with most of the people who live between the Upper West Side of Manhattan and Beverly Hills.
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some of the bigger names, like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, but if you live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan or in one of the tonier parts of Los Angeles or in sections of Miami where I live, you've got a better chance of bumping into a redhead from Helsinki than running into a conservative.
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Let's leave the small stuff to smaller minds and get to what is truly important: Why, indeed, do liberals detest Fox News with such a burning passion? Why do they hate Bill O'Reilly more than Osama bin Laden and almost as much as Dick Cheney? Why, in places like the Upper West Side of Manhattan, do their eyes roll reflexively at the mere mention of the words 'Fox News,' in much the same way as your leg jerks when the doctor hits your knee with a rubber hammer?
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San Francisco liberals not only think America is a country that shoots first and asks questions later (at least when a Republican is in the White House), you get the impression they don't think much of Americans, either, specifically the ones who live east of their city and west of Manhattan.
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It was about a reading she had done in a bookstore on the West Coast, 'where at least five people will hiss like snakes and radiators if an author even men
tions the names of certain senior administration officials.'
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But to the end he remained what he always was: an individualist,
a man of the old rugged West, a freethinking libertarian, the kind of conservative who wanted an intrusive government off his and all of our backs.
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Never mind that earlier that same year, the good professor Paulin had told an Egyptian newspaper that Jewish settlers from New York who were living on the West Bank 'should be `shot dead.''
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That they are not oppressed there or anyplace else in the West.
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And one more little secret that they don't want you to know about at the Times: They're in the Pulitzer business over there on West Forty-third Street, just as the Hollywood crowd is in the Oscar business.
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We admire the courage over there on West Forty-third Street, belated and meaningless as it may be.
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You see, everything in West Virginia is named after Robert Byrd.
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Senator Byrd, who was first elected to the Senate in 1958, has said that 'West Virginia has always had four friends: God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter's Liver Pills, and Robert C. Byrd.'
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Wimps to the Right
from 'the Taliban wing of American politics' and that the Republi
can Party wants 'to write bigotry back into the Constitution.'
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There's always some left-wing civil liberties lawyer on, complaining about how bad conservatives are.
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Read the left-wing blogs some time if you want to see sheer, unadulterated hate up close and personal.
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Then in 2006, just when you thought they had shown all the contempt they possibly could, the left-wing crazies in San Fran
cisco did it again.
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A left-wing politician in London writes in the
Guardian
newspaper about the 'so-called' war on terror in a piece that runs under the headline 'This War on Terrorism Is Bogus: The 9/11 Attacks Gave the US an Ideal Pretext to Use Force to Secure its Global Domination.'
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They think that 'World War 111' is just a Republican talking point; that all the conservative stooges who go on the Fox News channel and talk about World War III are part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to help George W. Bush turn America into Nazi Germany and kill innocent civilians in misbegotten foreign wars.
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'I think [President Bush] should remember that it was the devil who tempted Jesus with unparalleled wealth and power' is how the late William Sloane Coffin, the Protestant minister and longtime left-wing political activist once put it in his denunciation of the president's 'tax cuts for the rich.'
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'This kind of scary hatred,' he writes, 'my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing-in his day from people such as the late Sen.
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comes only from the right wing.'
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Wasn't he troubled when left-wing pundit Julianne Malveaux said she hoped Clarence Thomas's wife 'feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease,' because he was 'an absolutely reprehensible person'?
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Once, the right wing in this country had a monopoly on Jew
bashing.
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This time it's coming not from the right wing, but from the left wing-from left-wing intellectuals, of all people, on some of our finest American college campuses.
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For example, world-class Israel-basher Noam Chomsky, the left-wing scholar from MIT-a man of Jewish heritage himself
combined his revulsion for Israel and his contempt for American Jews who support Israel in one simple sentence.
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Of course, Americans of left-wing intellectual persuasion aren't alone when it comes to Israel-bashing.
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Thanks to left-wing intel
lectuals, anti-Semitism is no longer the sole domain of the right
wing fringe.
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Fur
thermore, I would not put it past the right wing to flood the liberal blogs with hateful criticisms of Israel to advance a perception that
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Yes! Exactly! It's the right wing and their evil mastermind Karl Rove, who are behind it all.
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And it would be nice to think that these Muslim-Americans represent only a small percentage of Muslims living in this country; that they speak only for the delusional wing of Islam.
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And thanks to those alleged conservatives in the White House, our tax money is also going to the Dolores Huerta Preparatory High School in Pueblo, Colorado-a school named after the left-wing labor leader who in April 2006 told an assembly of high school kids in Tucson, Arizona, that 'Republicans hate Latinos' and that 'We didn't cross the borders, the borders crossed us.'
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It gives them energy to fight those dreaded conservatives, those right-wing bastards who run everything in our country into the ground and are so powerful and so evil that they even got rid of Dan Rather, a man whose only crime was reporting the news fairly and honestly.
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After that, Dan Rather was on borrowed time-time that ran out when CBS News finally caved in to right-wing pressure and sent poor Dan packing.
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Inside their comfy liberal-elite bubble-at universities, in newsrooms, in publishing houses, at women's magazines, and at a whole bunch of other liberal enclaves-they endlessly reassure one another that they have more character, that they're
better
than those right-wing yahoos who are too stupid to think the way they do.
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The deception may work on them, but it no longer works on the rest of us who understand all too well that they're just left-wing ideologues, as orthodox and doctrinaire in their views as any right-wing ideologue is in his.
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Or they can move to Death Valley in the United States, though this is problem
atic, since the newly formed coalition of right-wing anti
Semites and left-wing anti-Semites probably would not approve of so many new Jews living in America.
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It's called Bush derangement syndrome (BDS), so designated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Kraut
hammer, who, might I add, trained at Harvard to be a psychiatrist (he knows derangement when he sees it!).
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Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz calls 'the so-called war on ter
rorism ...
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Norman Mailer,jthe Pulitzer Prize-winning author told the parole board what a wonderful writer Jack Henry Abbott was, and with the help of some of Mailer's liberal friends, they got him released from prison.
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Just like Democrats, these gutless politicians are willing to pander, all in the good name of winning Hispanic voters.
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Awestruck Good
Morning America
anchor Robin Roberts of ABC News echoed the conventional wisdom: 'Some would say it's a team of rivals,
a
la President Lincoln, or is a better compar
ison a team of geniuses as FDR did?''
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'I think that when people look back and see the entire slate, what they will say is, not only in terms of my Cabinet but in terms of, but in terms of my White House staff, I think, people are going to say, this is one of the most diverse Cabinets and White House staffs of all time.
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But more importantly they're going to say, these are all people of outstanding qualifications and excellence.'
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'Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact,' he told NBC News.
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Mother Jones
writer James Ridgeway's comment on the day of Richard
son's withdrawal proved quite prescient: 'It may be premature to say that Obama and his team have too high a tolerance for cor
ruption.
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Support
ers portrayed him as a victim of guilt-by-associations' 'I appre
ciate your interest in this,' Cannon told
The Hook,
a Charlottesville weekly newspaper, 'but I said what I wanted to say in the statement I released, and I want to leave it at that.''
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'I can count on someone like Valerie to take my hand and say, `You need to think about these three things,'' she told the
New York Times.
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'Don't go into corporate America?' Easy for you to say, sister.
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I shouldn't say hustler, but he's a bumper in terms of work.'
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Instead of acknowledging her husband's rank hypocrisy, Mrs. Obama turned it into another moment of hero worship: 'Barack is gonna say what needs to be said, and it's not going to, you know, necessarily matter ...
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Another declined to say anything.
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You
go out, Lynn, and bundle
$250,000
for me-all legal-and then you call me after I'm elected and say, 'Joe I'd like to come
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and talk to you about something.'
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I'm going to say, 'sure, Lynn, come on in.'
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Vetting the Veep: The Myth of 'Average Joe' Biden
JOSEPH BIDEN, Vice President of the United States: Because of the rules, the president and
I
can't stop you from doing some things, but IT show up in your city and say, 'This was a stupid idea.'
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He didn't have to say a word.
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He also refused to say whether he was a U.S. citizen, explaining that his 'English [was] not so good.
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One wonders what the Obamas would say about Holder's lucrative work for Chiquita Brands International if it had been performed by, say, John McCain's top lawyer? As chief counsel for the global company, Holder won a 'slap-on-the-wrist plea deal to charges that it had paid off' Colombian paramilitary death squads .4'
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Solis acted more like a Supreme Court nominee than a Cabinet appointee, bobbing and weaving as if direct answers would jeop
ardize a future court case:
'Senator, I would just say to you that that is an item of great interest to me.
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''
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But some of her own scientists and the EPA's own inspector general say Jackson did not practice in New Jersey what she now preaches.
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Their voices echoed from the hills of New Hampshire to the deserts of Nevada, where teachers and cooks and kitchen work
ers stood up to say that maybe Washington doesn't have to be run by lobbyists anymore.
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You don't say.
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What major private company could escape scrutiny or criticism for forcing all of its employees to subsidize its political activities, whether they agreed with them or not?' And what does it say about Obama's credibility as a reformer that the massive infusion of union dues into his campaign treasury didn't trouble him in the least?
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Like the Obama White House, SEIU's brass embraces a policy of self-exemption on ethics, transparency, and fiscal responsibil
ity: Do as they say, not as they do.
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On November 12, 2008, ROD BLAGOJEVICH talked with Advisor B. ROD BLAGOJEVICH told Advisor B that he told SEIU Official, 'I said go back to [Senate Candidate 1], and, and say hey, look, if you still want to be a Senator don't rule this out and then broach the idea of this 501(c)(4) with her.'
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At no time did Balanoff say anything to her about offering Blagojevich a union position.'
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Q And did she at that point or did anyone else in the course of their communications with, you know, folks perceived to be communicating for Blagojevich raise a red flag and say, 'Hey, you know, guess what.
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Kingsley's internal review found inextricable links between ACORN and Project Vote:
Project Vote hires Acorn to do voter registration work on its behalf, and the two groups say they have registered 1.3
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'It talks about Amer
ica Votes and some notes from a meeting that took place I would say.
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That's where-let's say the D.C. office where I was.
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Besides, she pooh-poohed: 'I say a lot of things-millions of words a day-so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.''
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You
are working so hard for me that I just don't know what to say any more.
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EPILOGUE
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
I
can't say it any clearer: I will be helping Chris Dodd because he deserves the help,' President Obama told the
Boston Globe.
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American College of Emergency Physicians, 'University of Chicago Medical Center Is Failing Emergency Patients, Nations Emer
gency Physicians Say; Urge Congress to Hold Hearings on the State of Emergency Care,' February 19, 2009; available online at:
http://www.
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labor leader used charity's employees for pol
itics, workers say,' Los
Angeles
Times, October 20, 2008; available online at:
http://www.latimes.com/newsAocal/la-me-union20-2008oct2O,
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Libby Copeland, 'What Makes Hillary Tick? Her Schedule Doesn't Say,'
Washington Post,
March 20, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/19/
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'I said, `You can stick that with whatever other offers,'' Zinni recalled, saying he had used more colorful language with Jones.
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'I'm frustrated with myself, with our team,' he added, 'and I'm here on television saying I screwed up and that's part of the era of responsibility, is not never making mistakes; it's owning up to them and trying to make sure you never repeat them and that's what we intend to do.'
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He maliciously lied when repeatedly saying that the (now-deceased) driver was drinking.'
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Who led the charge against such over
sight? 'The nation's leading financial officials-[Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur] Levitt, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, and his deputy Lawrence Summers-pummeled the pro
posal, saying it was dangerous to even discuss the idea.''
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In the understatement of the year, left-leaning government watchdog Melanie Sloan of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington responded: 'It makes it appear that they are saying one thing and doing another.'
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At trial, jurors heard a gushing voice message from Senator Clinton in praise of Hsu's fundraising prowess:
The once-smitten Senator Clinton agreed to return $850,000 in bundled contributions gathered by Hsu-but her campaign asserted an option to re-purpose the dirty donations 'by saying that it would take back the money if it clearly came from the donor's bank account.''
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'Obama caught saying ACORN and friends will shape his presi
dential agenda,' YouTube.com,
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Mark Halperin, 'obama Camp Memo on Clinton Saying She `Misspoke,''
The Page;
available online at:
http://thepage.time.com/
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obama-camp-memo-on-Clnton-saying-she-misspoke/ [accessed April 15, 2009].
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Mark Halperin, 'obama Camp Memo on Clinton Saying She `Misspoke,'' op cit.
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The screed says less about Freeman than it does about the Obama administration's AWOL vetting system.
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Mr. Rogers also served as a campaign
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My belief is that we don't always get everything accomplished over a meeting table,' Rogers says.
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'The salaries don't keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you're in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,' she says.
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The statement says $210,000 of that was to make up for a loss Cochran suffered on the sale of his Maryland home.
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The White House says that Holder will formally recuse himself from charging decisions and prosecutions affecting any of Covington &
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Burling's clients, but he will have unfettered oversight over Obama's order to close the facility within a year.
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EPA CHIEF LISA JACKSON: CLEAN AS SHE SAYS, NOT AS SHE CLEANS
President Obama's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, racked up a controversial record as chief eco-regulator for the state of New Jersey.
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GIBBS:
Well,
I
think-again,
I
think the quote says, that when the work is complete, that the bill will be paid, and cer
tainly that would be the expectation
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Fortunately, the Obama administration's apathy did not infect the Bronx District Attorney's office.
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It also has claimed on its website to have a 'strong relationship' with the prominent California Community Foundation, which says it has no such rela
tionship.
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'This says `Peregruzka,' which means `overcharged.''
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Clinton, she says, was being used by Pinchuk 'to clean up and legitimize Kuchma's legacy.'
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'They were aware of it because they were notified and when they went to the closing they would see it,' Mr. Feinberg says, adding that he 'always let people in the program know that
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Months passed.
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Feinberg explained to the
Wall Street Journal:
As to Mr. Dodd, Mr. Feinberg says he spoke to the Senator once or twice and mostly to his wife and that like other FOAs Mr. Dodd got 'a float down,' which means that even after he had a preferred rate, when the prevailing rate dropped just before the closing, his rate was reduced again.
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Dodd, who says he contributed $12,000 to the purchase price, owned one-third of the house, Kessinger two-thirds.
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Eric Schmitt and Mark Landler, 'General Says His Iraq Envoy Job Was Rescinded,'
New
York Times, February 5,2009; available online at: httpJ/
www
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Michelle Levi, 'Obama Says Sorry.
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Heath Haussamen, 'Bingaman says he wasn't involved in Rattner deal,'
New Mexico Independent,
April 22, 2009; available online at:
http://newmexicoindependent.com/25618/bingaman-says-he
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Heath Haussamen, 'Bingaman says he wasn't involved in Rattner deal,' op cit.
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Sharona Courts and Jake Bernstein, 'Former Clinton Official Says Democrats, Obama Advisers Share Blame for Market Meltdown,'
Prop
ublica,
October 9, 2008; available online at:
http://www.propublica.org/
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feature/former-Clnton-official-says-democrats-obama-advisers-share
blame-for-marke[accessed
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Phil Mattingly, 'AIG Chief Goes Off Script, Says Employees Will Return Some of Bonus Money,' CQ Politics, March 18, 2009; available online at:
http://www.cgpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?doclD=news
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Fred Lucas, 'SEIU PAC Spent $27 Million Supporting Obama's Election, FEC Filing Says,' CNSNews.com,
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Patrick Healy and Katharine Q. Seelye, 'Clinton Says She `Mis
spoke'About Dodging Sniper Fire,'
New York Times,
March 25, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/politics/
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Jill Lawrence and Eugene Kiely, 'Clinton says she `misspoke' about sniper fire, calls misstatement a `minor blip,'' USA
Today,
March
25, 2008; available online at:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/
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Mary Bruce, 'Questions Linger Over Bill Clinton's International Work, Lugar Says,' abcnews.com,
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'BREAKING: I was responsible for bonus loophole, says Dodd,' CNN.com,
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CHAPTER 1
ONWS
OBAMA NOMINEE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
As America thrilled to the inauguration o f its 44th president and a new First Lady, the West Wing was filling with a kalei
doscopic army of policy aces, whiz kids, and veteran advis
ers, all focused on the long-haul, no-drama work to which Barack has called them...'
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On January 25, 2009, word had already leaked that Daschle had 'scored a ground floor office in the West Wing.
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m Forging a massive settlement for Purdue Pharma, man
ufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, with
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the state of West Virginia in 2004.
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The firm's marketing prac
tices, the state maintained, led to West Virginia users becoming addicted to the drug.
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Working in the judge's chambers in West Virginia, he forged an agreement under which the firm would have to pay $10 million over four years into drug abuse and education pro
grams in West Virginia.
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And today, on this Tuesday in February, in states north and south, east and west, what began as a whisper in Springfield has swelled to a chorus of millions calling for change.
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This tactic has been used against a number of organi
zations to include Wal-Mart, Kaiser Permanente, Advocate Health Care, Catholic Healthcare West, and Sutter Health.
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The D.C. headquarters (knee deep in ethical mud) accused the local-known as SEW United Healthcare Work
ers West (UHW West)-of financial malpractice and misconduct.
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The UHW West president, Sal Rosselli, quit the SEIU Executive Board and formed a new union in February 2009, which declared:
We're tired of SHU's hostile tactics, threatening phone calls, their collusion with employers and governors like Blagojovich, and the corruption of Stern's appointees like Local 6434 head Tyrone Freeman in Los Angeles, disgraced SEIU Executive Vice President Annelle Grajada, and the appointees who have just taken over what had been our local.
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Jonathan Martin, 'West Wing on steroids in Obama WH.,'
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Like Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama intends to play a hands-on role as a policy advocate the next four years
and she has filled her staff with seasoned Chicago operatives like herself with longtime big business ties and left-wing agendas.
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According to left-wing watchdog Public Citizen, Rogers bundled more than $200,000 for Obama and con
tributed $28,500 to committees supporting her good friend
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Jarrett swept the young lawyers under her wing, introduced them to a wealthier and better-connected Chicago than their own, and eventually secured contacts and money essential to Mr. Obama's long-shot Senate victory.'
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In November 2006, he told the left-wing 'Wake Up
Walmart.com'
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The project provides training for the next generation of left-wing community organizers and 'social justice activists.'
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Left
wing consumer groups blasted him for providing cover to other Democrats doing the credit industry's bidding.
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Left-wing consumer groups lam
basted the proposal.
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Browner exploited her office to orchestrate a political campaign by left-wing groups, who turned around and attacked Republican lawmakers for supporting regulatory reform.
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And his effusive shout-outs went to SEIU's heaviest hitters:
'Andy' is militant left-wing social worker-turned-union heavy Andy Stern, who broke off SEIU from the old guard AFL-CIO to consolidate low-skill service workers and create a twenty-first cen
tury labor empire.
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During the 2004 election cycle, he had led the radical, left-wing, George Soros-funded group, America Coming Together (ACT) as national field director.
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Stern also boasted via Twitter (the micro-blogging social net
work) that he was a special guest at one of the first White House Wednesday cocktail parties 2
4
The social gathering of union lead
ers and other left-wing groups was organized by Obama crony and chief adviser Valerie Jarrett' to coordinate the message on 'progressive' legislation such as card-check.
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But the mainstream media, continuing a decades-old pattern of whitewashing the radical left-wing outfit's activities, failed to report the unvarnished truth about ACORN's racketeers in Balti
more.
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Obama also sat on the boards of the left-wing Woods Fund (with Weather Underground terror
ist Bill Ayers) and Joyce Foundation, both of which poured money into ACORN'' coffers.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development funds hundreds, if not thou
sands, of left-wing 'anti-poverty' groups across the country with ACORN as a leading recipient of the agency's subsidies.
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His do-gooder image is a far cry from the ugly reality exposed not by right-wing radio or Republican Party operatives as might be expected, but by internal ACORN whistle
blowers themselves, disgusted with the corrupt organization.
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A month later, the
New York
Times (in a rare bit of investigative journalism against a left-wing sacred cow) exposed ACORN's dirty laundry, prolonged cover
up, and complicated network of pass-through organizations.
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This same ACORN offshoot was the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going on between CSI, ACORN, and yet another left-wing tax-exempt political advocacy group, Commu
nities Voting Together (CVT).
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The scheme has all the appearances of another left-wing slush fund for Democrat satellites exploiting non-profit status and skirting campaign finance laws.
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Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded by left
wing lawyer Sandy Newman to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.
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Defying fellow Democrats crying `right-wing smear job,' Conyers pushed for further investigation into Heidelbaugh and MonCrief's alle
gations.'
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And on May 29, 2009, constitutional lawyer and former Bush administration offi
cial Kris Kobach entered the race for Kansas Secretary of State, citing Obama's favorite radical left-wing racket as his primary
motivation.
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Two years later, at an 'historic' and 'unprecedented' record pace, Barack Obama presided over a heap of botched nomina
tions, crony appointments, lobbyist paybacks, union and left
wing activist payoffs, and abandoned promises to make government more transparent and accountable to ordinary Americans.
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Warm and humble thanks to my favorite right-wing Marks
Levin and Steyn-for their support.
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Michelle Malkin, 'The left-wing mortgage counseling racket,' michellemalkin.com,
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Hunter Biden first con
tacted the small Roman Catholic institution in 2005 with the promise of winning federal earmark funding.
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Born in Los Angeles, Solis served in the state legisla
ture for eight years before winning a congressional seat against a fellow Democrat, 71-year-old, nine-term incumbent Matthew Martinez, in 2000.
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According to a staff announcement from the international Union in Washington, D.C.: 'With more than two decades of service, Annelle has played a critical role in winning strong con
tracts for tens of thousands of union members, preserving trauma centers in Los Angeles County, fighting for health care reform, defeating ballot initiatives in 2005 that challenged working families' livelihoods and uniting more than 80,000 workers into SEIU 721 for greater strength and a stronger voice for public service providers.
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Kaiser employee Karen Mayhew also staved off the deceptive takeover, winning an NLRB settlement that forced SEIU Local 49 officials to 'renounce their illegally obtained monopoly bargaining power over Kaiser employees' and to 'issue notices to employ
ees alerting them of their legal rights (including the right to refrain from formal union membership)' and to 'inform work
ers that the company will not bargain with union officials unless the employees chose to do so through the less-abusive NLRB secret-ballot election process.''°
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On his website, Rathke bills himself as a lifelong progressive who has been 'dedicated to winning social justice, workers rights, and a democracy over the last 40 years, where the people shall rule.'
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See also: 'Award Winning Actor and Activist Ed Asner; SEIU President Andy Stern to Meet with Striking janitors as National Focus on Shalala Intensifies,' PR Newswire, April 21, 2006; available online at:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/
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With the war in Iraq persisting, with fresh fighting in Afghanistan, with missiles raining down on even Nazareth, the home
town of Jesus Christ, the world's most powerful governments and the United Nations appear unable or unwilling to stop a chain of events that may be spinning out of earthly control.'
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When U.S. and coalition forces invaded Afghanistan in
2001
and Iraq in
2003
and vowed to build the first democracies in the region aside from Israel, the Associated Press called such developments a 'political earthquake' that 'shook the political foundations of the Middle East,' an assessment echoed around the globe.'
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And these do not even begin to include coverage of the first Palestinian uprising (intifada) in
1987-88,
the Iran-Iraq War in the
1980s,
the overthrow of the shah of Iran and the Soviet invasion o£ Afghanistan in
1979,
the Arab oil embargoes of the
1970s,
the Yom Kippur War in
1973,
the Six Days' War in
1967,
the rebirth of the State of Israel in
1948,
or any of the terrorist attacks or peace talks that have occurred over the past several decades.
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It was why Moscow had invaded Afghanistan in
1979,
amid the chaos engulfing revolutionary Iran at the time.
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This was not a secret conspiracy plotted in the shadowy caves of Afghanistan: To the contrary, Saddam had broadcast his ambitions and his intentions to the whole world.
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And Putin has done some things right; he has, for example, been supportive of U.S. efforts in the war on terror; has permitted U.S. and NATO planes to fly over Russian territory to support war efforts in Afghanistan; op
posed but didn't directly attempt to block the U.S.-led war against Iraq; and his 13% flat tax plan, among other pro-market economic reforms, has, in fact, helped the Russian economy grow significantly in recent years and attract U.S. and Western foreign investment and companies.
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What's more, after the Soviets invaded neighboring Afghanistan in December
1979,
Khomeini feared the Kremlin was coming to take over Iran next.
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So Khomeini and the mullahs turned to Moscow instead, figuring that if Mikhail Gorbachev was pulling troops out of Afghanistan, he was not about to send them into Iran.
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They were using one of the traditional routes to the oil fields, coming through Afghanistan, and trying to seal not only their bases but their supply routes.
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This division was located in Afghanistan, and the number of individuals who have arrived is 750.
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It was the first visit ofsuch a high
ranking Saudi leader since 1932, and given that the Saudis had chan
neled billions of dollars to the
mujahedin
of Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets after their 1979 invasion-and that the U.S. still had military bases in the Saudi kingdom at the time-the meetings were historic.
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'Russia must control four countries in order to have quiet hor
ders-Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan.'
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Before September
11,
2001, there were only seventeen known fol
lowers of Christ in all of Afghanistan.
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But persecution of believers in Afghanistan has hardly diminished.
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'God is moving so fast in Afghanistan, we're just trying to keep up,' one Afghani believer told me.
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Afghanistan is not alone.
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and I have strongly supported the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq in light of the 9/ 11 attacks.
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Those who already want American forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan are not likely to support a new war.
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They feel like they are winning because they believe they defeated the Soviet Union and they are responsible for the Soviet Union collapse as a result of the war in Afghanistan.
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Steve Forbes wrote in his 'Fact and Comment' column in Forbes magazine on March 28, 2005, 'Our overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the resultant elections in Iraq have set off a political earthquake: elections in Afghanistan that extended the vote to women; free elections in Iraq; a free presidential election among the Palestinians, with the winner pleading for an end to violence and negotiating deals with Israel; a popular uprising in Lebanon; and Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak suddenly calling for a free presidential election when his term expires.'
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I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living with
out walls and having no bars or gates, to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.'
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'Israel 8s like part of Silicon Valley,' Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on his first trip to the country in October
2005.
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Yet at the same time, these experiences helped me understand in a small, personal way what President Reagan was talking about when he described the Soviet Union as the focus of evil in the modern world whose last chapters were even then being written and what Jesus Christ was talking about when he promised that 'I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it' (Matthew 16:18,
Kiv).
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Nevertheless, evangelical leaders inside Iran say they are seeingJe
sus' words in Matthew
16:18
come true before their very eyes: 'I will build my church; and the gates ofhell shall not prevail against it'
(KJV).
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I will go against those who are at rest, that five securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates, 'to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the na
tions, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.'
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I am not exaggerating when I say they did not blink; it's not an ex
aggeration, because I was looking.
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Experts say the blast from a single ten-kiloton nuclear bomb in Wash
ington, DC, for example, would destroy everything within a half mile o£ ground zero, contaminate
3,000
to 5,000 square miles with toxic lev
els of radiation, and kill
300,000
people within a matter of minutes.'
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What's more, even if the American president was to do so, Iranian leaders say 'any invader will find Iran to be a burning Hell for them.''
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The article went on to say that 'speculation has been rife that Putin would seek to stay in power beyond 2008' and noted that 'during his time in power, Putin has placed national television under effective state control, abolished the direct election of regional governors to make them virtual Kremlin appointees, and eliminated the right of independent lawmakers to run for parliament.''
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But the parallels between our two novels were curious, to say the least.
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For another thing, what tidbits were known
were
dis
turbing, to say the least.
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And by the grace of God, my family didn't get out of czarist, anti-Semitic Rus
sia only to say, 'Phew! Let's settle in Germany or Poland or Austria.'
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The damage either country could do to U.S. national security either directly or through surrogate terrorist networks-to say nothing of the damage that could be done to Israel-with nuclear weapons would be catastrophic.
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I could not help but be curious about the notion that the Scriptures spoke of Russia at all, to say nothing of the idea that Russia would attack Israel, perhaps in my lifetime.
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Suffice it to say that Israel has been an island of a few million immigrants in a sea of
300
million enemies yet has proven victorious in the
1948
War of independence, the
1956
Suez Crisis, the
1967
war, the War of Attrition
(1968-1970),
the Yom Kippur War of
1973,
and the Lebanon war of
1982,
while also saving the world from an Iraqi nuclear bomb when Israeli pilots took out the Osirik reactor in June of
1981.
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He couldn't say enough good about the flat tax, Steve's passion for free-market reform, and the jubilee Business Summit they had cochaired together in October
1998.
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The strategist looked at me for a moment as if to say, Do you
think you would havegotten within a hundred miles ofthe former prime minister of Israel ifwe didn't already know everything about you?
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If I was
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going to write a novel that had any hope of seeing the light of day
much less breaking out and truly capturing people's imagination-it would have to be unique, to say the least.
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It is a list
I will describe in more detail in later chapters, but suffice it to say here that two countries struck me as conspicuously absent.
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And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, `It will be a hot day,' and it turns out that way.
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'When you see a cloud ris
ing in the west, immediately you say, `A shower is coming,' and so it turns out.
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Just because tens of millions of Americans say they believe that Bible prophecy is coming true before their eyes or that they are living in the last days does not, of course, mean they are aware of the specific events the Bible says are right around the corner.
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Sheba and Dedan [ancient names for modem-day Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states] and the merchants of Tarshish [historically southern Spain, though it could refer more generally to Europe or the Mediterranean states] with all its villages will say to you [the Russian dictator], 'Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?' (Ezekiel
38:8,11-13, NASB)
It's important to note that this passage comes
after
the rebirth of the modem State of Israel prophesied in chapter
36
yet
before
the Russian
Iranian attack.
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And you will say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages.
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Industry experts, including those on this giant platform, say the Palestinians and Israelis will both profit if they can work together in a high-stakes partnership.''
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For
legal reasons, I can't say more right now.
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But let's just say it's possible that your novels have vastly understated how much oil is out there.'
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'I wish I could say more, but right now I can't,' he demurred.
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In talking to other oil experts in Israel and the U.S. over the next few months, I was able to confirm that there is, in fact, both oil and nat
ural gas under the region known in the Bible as Armageddon, where the Scriptures say the final cataclysmic conflict of history will occur.
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It's no exaggeration to say that the kind of inno
vation going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business.
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That is not to say Israel does not still struggle with poverty, un
employment, and underemployment.
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But Israel has made extraordinary-some would say miraculous
economic gains since
1948
and has become dramatically wealthier than any of its immediate neighbors.
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Note that the Hebrew prophet does not go so far as to say there will be a comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and all ofher neighbors, or that all-or even most-hostilities in the Middle East will have ceased.
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Some might say this is a bit of a conundrum.
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'And when I talk to those who worry about Israel's security,' Amid
ror-an observantly religious Jew-told me, 'I pull out a copy of the Bi
ble and say, `Ultimately, we have security in God.''
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BREACHING A TABOO, KUWAITIS TALK IF SOFTER STAND IN ISRAEL
International Herald Tribune, OCTOBER
6,
zoos
KUWAIT PAPERS PROPOSE NORMAL TIES WITH ISRAEL
REUTERS, OCTOBER S,
2005
ISRAEL, JORDAN MARK 11 YEARS OF PEACE TWO-WAY TRADE REACHED $185 MILLION LAST YEAR, UP 41% OVER YOBS
ASSOCIATED PRESS, OCTOBER
26, 2005
ISRAEL, ARAB WORLD ENGAGE IN NIGGEN YOAIE EXPERTS SAY CAMOUFLAGED TRADE BETWEEN ISRAEL, ARAB COUNTRIES GAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS
ASSOCIATED PRESS, DECEMBER
26, 2005
On September 10, 2005 just a day before the fourth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington-I posted an item on my weblog noting the historic news that Pakistan had begun to
TREATIES AND TRICES LEAVE ISRAELIS MORE DESIRE THAN EVER BEFORE
move publicly toward diplomatic ties with Israel, a previously un
thinkable development.
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'I would say that Israel's secu
rity was globalized,' he explained in his distinctive, gravelly voice, sug
gesting that with the U.S. as a strong ally, the fall of Saddam, and peace
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treaties in place with Egypt and Jordan, the threat Israel faces today is 'the problem of terror, rather than a classical attack' by a conventional Arab army or air force!
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But when I say this line on behalf of my president, I know what I'm talking about....
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But despite the assessment by many that the Hamas victory nullified any prospects for a peace deal, several impor
tant voices in the region say that is not necessarily the case.
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In Ezekiel
38:2-4,
God says to Ezekiel, 'Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD,
'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.
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Ezekiel
39:1
then restates the central actors in the prophecy so we do not miss them: 'Son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, 'Thus says the Lord
GOD,
'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal''
(NASB).
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'You and your colleagues say you have no god,' we once told a KGB officer interrogating us.
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But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who per
secute you'
(NASB).
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Asked if they would vote for the Soviet dictator if he were alive and running for president, a remarkable one in four Russians now say they would.
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Once the mullahs have all the chefs and ingredients they need to cook up their thermonuclear poison, these sources say that perfect
ing an actual bomb could happen very quickly.
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Others say sometime between
2008
and
2011
is more likely.
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Other sources say the Gomerites and their relatives migrated northward to Germany.
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He believes we should say to the Muslim world, 'We have the power, the land, and the nuclear weapons.
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He didn't say any
thing then; nor did I. But we were thinking the same thing.
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In the message, Brezhnev accused Israel of refusing to abide by a ceasefire called by the UN Security Council and then issued a chilling threat: 'I will say it straight: that if you find it impossible to act jointly with us in this matter, we should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps unilaterally.
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'Judgment Day shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, where the Jews will hide behind trees and stones, and the tree and stone will speak and say, 'Muslim, behind me is a Jew.
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THE AFTERMATH
The devastation will be so immense that Ezekiel
39:12
tells us it will take seven full months for Israel to bury all the bodies of the enemies in her midst, to say nothing of the dead and wounded in the coalition countries.
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'Say to them: Gather together for my great sacrifi
cial feast.
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U.S. officials say they expect birds in North America to be hit with the deadly disease soon and are work
ing feverishly to produce and stockpile vaccines for human con
sumption.
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I must say I don't fully understand what is coming, and much of me wishes that God in his providence would find some other way to protect Israel and chasten the nations who oppose him.
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Jesus said in Mat
thew
5:44, 'I
say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who per
secute you'
(NASB).
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It is all inter
esting and important material, but when I interviewed Sada, one of the fast things I wanted to know was what it was like to stand before Saddam Hussein and actually hear him say, 'Georges, I've decided that the air force will attack Israel and wipe her out with chemical weapons.'
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Ariel and his team are conducting meticulous historical research to understand the look and size and function of the sacred vessels and im
plements the Scriptures say were once used in the Temple.
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We have no definitive prophecies that say the Ark will be found in the last days.
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'He has never claimed publicly to be the messiah, but crit
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ics say he has been slow to deny the claim when made by his followers.
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Today conservative estimates say there are at least 100,000 Jewish believers, while some put the number at over
300,000.°
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Jesus once spoke to the Jews of Israel, saying, 'For I say to you, from now on you will not see Me un
til you say, `Blessed is He who comes in the name of the
LORD''
(Mat
thew
23:39, NASB).
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In Iraq, the hunger for Christ is also at an all-time high, say Iraqi pastors and other Arab Christian leaders who have been inside the country.
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More are being printed inside the country, and pastors say they cannot keep up with the demand.
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He doesn't just say he be
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lieves in a God who can 'open doors' to the most closed countries and the most dosed hearts on earth.
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The audience howled, as did my wife and 1, and though his re
marks were not reported in the major news media, I thought Hall's point was one worth passing on to my readers: those who say they are followers of Jesus Christ should never be ashamed of speaking his name.
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As Sada ex
plains, 'It means, if you have important information that may help someone in a difficult situation, say something.
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Don't be a devil and keep silent when you can say something to help.''
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Observers say the move is typical of Putin's muscle-flexing as he tries to increase Russian power.''
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Said Putin in a Kremlin
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press conference: 'It is horrible to say and even horrible to think that, in response to the deployment of such facilities in Ukrainian territory, which cannot theoretically be ruled out, Russia could target its missile systems at Ukraine.
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I can say that the title of the talk was 'How Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Eschatology Is Driving Iranian Foreign Policy: An Evangelical Christian Perspective.'
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Maybe a false prophet known as the Mahdi will appear in Mecca and Medina and try to perform the duties that Shia scholars say would befit the Twelfth Imam.
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I have said it before, but I will say it again: it remains too early to draw definitive conclusions about whether we will witness the ful
fillment of Ezekiel
38-39
in our lifetime, much less in the next few years.
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Keep in mind that the Bible doesn't specifically say that Iran must acquire nuclear weapons for Ezekiel's prophecy to be fulfilled.
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I'm already beginning to pick this up anecdotally on radio inter
views in which a surprising number of callers say things like, 'Why
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should we spend a dime to save Israel?' and 'Let the Jews fight their own battles' and 'The only reason we as Americans are getting attacked by Muslims is because we support Israel-the sooner we stop, the sooner there will be peace.'
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The truth is we simply do not know the answer for certain,
A
a
because Ezekiel does not say.
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Ezekiel38:16 does say these events will happen in the `last days' (NASB), but this term is not necessarily limited to the period of the Tribulation.
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No other generation in history has been able to say that, but we now can.
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As I write this, I would say the board is almost set, and God is putting the pieces in place for the final drama to begin.
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'We're having a cozy chat about Armageddon,' I say.
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For the LORD of Heaven's Armies will say, 'Blessed be Egypt, my people.
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After all, my sources inside the Moroccan government say the king is seeking to play a 'bridge builder' role between the Israelis and Palestinians and can do so with consider
able authority since Morocco has proven that Jews and Muslims can live and work together in peace and harmony.
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And by God's grace, my family didn't suc
ceed in escaping the vicious anti-Semitism of Russia only to say, 'Phew, let's settle in Poland.
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Just before his crucifixion, Jesus told his Jewish followers, 'For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord'' (Matthew
23:39,
rnv).
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52%
of all Americans agree Only
22%
disagree
26%
say they don't know
Israel Prophecy-Gender
• 54%
of women agree;
18%
disagree;
28%
don't know
• 49%
of men agree;
27%
disagree;
24%
don't know
Israel Prophecy-Religion
• 70%
of evangelical/born-again Christians agree;
12%
disagree
• 59%
of all Protestant Christian affiliations agree;
16%
disagree
• 52%
of Catholics agree;
24%
disagree
• 56%
of Jewish Americans agree;
22%
disagree
Israel Prophecy-Ideology/Party Affiliation
• 44%
of liberal Democrats agree;
21%
disagree
• 50%
of self-described moderates agree;
28%
disagree
• 65%
of conservative Republicans agree;
18%
disagree
Israel Prophecy-Party Affiliation
• 47%
of Democrats agree;
24%
disagree
• 61%
of Republicans agree;
19%
disagree
Israel Prophecy-Race
• 60%
of African-Americans agree;
17%
disagree
• 52%
of whites agree;
22%
disagree
• 46%
of Hispanics agree;
41%
disagree
• 29%
of Asians agree;
29%
disagree;
42%
don't know
Israel Prophecy-Income
• 62%
of Americans earning under
$20,000
per year agree;
15%
disagree
AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARD BIBLE PROPHECY
• 55%
of Americans earning between
$60,000
and
$75,000
a year agree;
22%
disagree
a 37%
of Americans earning $100,000 or more per year agree;
37%
disagree;
26%
don't know
Israel Prophecy-Region
• 45%
of Americans living in the East agree;
29%
disagree
• 52%
of Americans living in the Midwest agree;
23%
disagree
• 58%
of Americans living in the South agree;
15%
disagree
• 48%
of Americans living in the West agree;
29%
disagree
• 47%
of New Englanders agree;
20%
disagree
Israel Prophecy-Age
• 61%
of Americans age
18-25
agree; only
7%
disagree;
32%
don't know
• 37%
of Gen Xers age
26-40
agree;
33%
disagree;
30%
don't know
• 53%
of Americans age
41-55
agree;
19%
disagree
• 56%
of Americans age
56-65
agree;
22%
disagree
• 59%
of Americans over age
65
agree;
21%
disagree
ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?
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42%
of all Americans agree
44%
disagree
14%
say they don't know
Last Days---Gender
• 50%
of women agree;
37%
disagree;
13%
don't know
• 34%
of men agree;
52%
disagree;
14%
don't know
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Last Days-Religion
• 58%
of evangelical/born-again Christians agree;
30%
disagree
• 50%
of all Protestant Christians agree;
35%
disagree
• 38%
of Catholics agree;
52%
disagree
• 31%
of Jewish Americans agree;
56%
disagree
Last Days-Ideology/Party Affiliation
• 30%
of liberal Democrats agree;
57%
disagree
• 39%
of self-described moderates agree;
47%
disagree
• 51%
of conservative Republicans agree;
39%
disagree
Last Days-Party Affiliation
• 39%
of Democrats agree;
47%
disagree
• 48%
of Republicans agree;
39%
disagree
Last Days-Race
• 75%
of African-Americans agree;
16%
disagree
• 39%
of whites agree;
47%
disagree
• 33%
of Hispanics agree;
56%
disagree
• 14%
of Asians agree;
86%
disagree
Last Days-Income
• 60%
of Americans earning under
$20,000
per year agree;
26%
disagree
• 43%
of Americans earning between
$60,000
and
$75,000
per year agree;
49%
disagree
• 16%
of Americans earning $100,000 or more per year agree;
77%
disagree
Last Days-Region
• 37%
of Americans living in the East agree;
49%
disagree
• 39%
of Americans living in the Midwest agree;
48%
disagree
• 51%
of Americans living in the South agree;
35%
disagree
• 35%
of Americans living in the West agree;
50%
disagree
• 35%
of New Englanders agree;
51%
disagree
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Last Days-Age
• 57%
of Americans age
18-25
agree;
39%
disagree
• 32%
of Gen Xers age
26-40
agree;
49%
disagree
• 43%
of Americans age
41-55
agree;
47%
disagree
• 42%
of Americans age
56-65
agree;
44%
disagree
• 46%
of Americans over age
65
agree;
39%
disagree
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APPENDIX 3
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL AND EPICENTER ISSUES
Exclusive National Survey For Joel C. Rosenberg Conducted by McLaughlin & Associates 1,000 randomly selected American Christians March
16-18, 2008
On May
14, 2008,
Jews and Christians the world over celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the dramatic and prophetic rebirth of the State of Israel.
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82% of American Christians agree Only 10% disagree 8% say they don't know
Historically, American Protestants and Catholics have been divided on a host of social and political issues.
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AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL AND EPICENTER ISSUES
say they want to care for the poor, and this conviction turned out to be widely held among all Christians.
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75%
of American Christians agree
16%
disagree
9%
say they don't know
INON
IEVAN.IEVAN.
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A full
76%
of Christians who say they are not 'born again' also
49%
of all American Christians said yes
58%
of Evangelical Christians said yes
52%
of Catholics said yes
We probed deeper to determine how many had a 'strong inter
est' in touring Israel and how many simply had 'some interest.'
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Evangelical Protestants say a Palestinian state would be a terrorist state by a twenty-point margin but non-evangelical Protestants lean toward saying it would be a peace
ful, moderate democracy.
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50%
say Jerusalem should remain the united capital of Israel Only
17%
thinkJerusalem should be divided
33%
say they don't know
While by a
3
to 1 ratio
(50%
to
17%)
American Christians be
lieve that Jerusalem should remain the united capital of Israel, curi
ously, Protestants and Catholics are somewhat divided.
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Among evangeli
cal Protestants, a stunning
85%
say Jerusalem should stay united
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under Jewish control, while only
15%
say it should be divided with Muslims.
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That said, fully one in three American Christians say they don't know enough to take a position one way or the other, suggest
ing that there is still quite a bit of education to be done by those who advocate keeping Jerusalem the united capital of the Jewish state.
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The polling firm also asked, Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for a candidate for president of the United States if you knew that candidate would strongly advocate policies to protect America from radical Islamic terrorism; protect Israel from a nuclear attack by Iran; protect the capital of Israel, Jerusalem, from being divided with Palestinian Muslims; and refuse to pressure Israel to make diplomatic concessions that could endanger Israel's national security? If it would make no difference, just say so.
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• Democrat Christian women are even more open to persua
sion
(37%
say they are more likely, while only
11%
say they are less likely).
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A full
44%
of Christian Independent men say they are more likely, while only
6%
say less likely.
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APPENDIX 4 EZEKIEL 38-38 (NABS)
CHAPTER 38
And the word of the LORD came to me saying ,''Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him'and say, 'Thus says the Lord GoD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal.
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''Thus says the Lord GOD, 'It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan, 'and you will say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages.
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''Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, 'On that day when My people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? 'You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army; 'band you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land.
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CHAPTER 39
'And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; land I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
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They say openly that they intend to remove Israel, the first position of the West, really 'little Satan,' but remember that their goal is to get the United States, the 'big Satan.'
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ROSENBERG:
We took a survey, we
used
[McLaughlin & Associates] as our pollster [to survey] American attitudes toward Israel, toward Bible prophecy [and]
52% of
American [Christians] say that they
believe
the rebirth
of
Israel in the
modern
era is a result
of
Bible prophecy...
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So obvi
ously you can't just discount it and say, 'Well, it's just a blanket political process.'
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You have to understand, I don't want to say that in
2007
Iran can
try
to use nuclear weapons against Israel, America, or whatever.
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INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS
ROSENBERG:
Can't we just say Ahmadinejad has got hot rhetoric but who really cares; he can't possibly accomplish these objectives
of
wiping Israel out? Actually, let me back up and ask you, does Ahmadinejad represent a threat only to Israel?
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ROSENBERG:
What's the furthest city let's say in Europe right now, that can be hit by an Iranian missile?
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John Zogby, 'Zogby: 66% Say Iran A Threat To U.S.' (e-mad alert from Zogby.
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See articles and studies by Joel C. Rosenberg: 'Land of Promise: Restoring Israel's Economic Mirade,' Policy Review (Fail 1991; Joel C. Rosenberg with Edward L. Hudgins, 'Economic Reform, Not Loan Guarantees, Israel's Only Path to Prosperity,' Heritage Backgrounder #881, The Heritage Foundation, February 13,1992; 'Still Time to Say No,
-
Jerusalem Post, August 10, 1992; 'Why Economic Growth Is Critical to Arab Israeli Peace,' Heritage Backgrounder #920, The Heritage Foundation, November 5, 1992; 'Economics and the Middle East,' Journal
of
Commerce, November 25, 1992.
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On page 87 of the 1999 nonfiction book Are We Living in the End Times? (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1999), LaHaye and coauthor Jerry Jenkins say Comer is 'thought to be Turkey.'
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We say to this West, which does not act reasonably, and does not learn its lessons: By Allah, you will be defeated.
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I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it' See Joel C. Rosenberg, 'Hamas Threatens America, Putin Invites Them to Moscow;' joelrosenberg.blogspot.com,
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Blair told leaders of a European summit that he felt a 'real sense of revulsion' from Ahmadinejad's rhetoric and said, 'I have never come across a situation of the president of a country saying they want to wipe out-not that they've got a problem with, or an issue with, but want to wipe out another country...
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Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been more specific, saying Ahmadinejad 'talks like Hitler' and is °a psychopath of the worst kind.'
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Olmert and his advisors are believed to be drawing up plans for a pos
sible preemptive strike against Iran, saying, 'God forbid that this man ever gets his hands on nuclear weapons.''
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Israeli vice premier Shimon Peres, winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, has ratcheted up the rhetoric even further, saying that not only does Iran represent 'the greatest danger' to world peace and security since the Nazis, but that 'Ahmadinejad represents Satan' himself.'
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Now Putin seemed to be saying that Russia was a different kind of country and that he was a dif
&rent kind of spy chief.
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Yet Ezekiel was saying that modern Israel would be wealthier still.
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And then he stunned me and much of the audience by saying that he and Abbas believed the end of the conflict with Israel was not only in sight but within reach.
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Erekat went on to clarify that neither Abbas nor he was saying that a final deal would be wrapped up six months from
then,
November 2005.
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But they were saying that once Palestinians and Israelis held elec
tions, put their governments in place, and finally came back to the ne
gotiating table ready to get serious, enough of the diplomatic work had already been done that both sides were now truly within striking dis
tance of a historic deal.
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As the Palestinians' chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat is another voice saying the Hamas victory is not a deal killer.
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On page
333
of Option's hardcover edition, my fictional Iranian leader calls for the annihilation of Israel, saying, 'The world must un
derstand-the Zionists must be humbled.
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He has written numerous accounts of Shiite leaders in Iran claiming to have witnessed physical sightings of the Twelfth Imam and saying that he will reveal
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himself to the world soon.
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I just stared at him, trying to process what he was saying and why he was being so open about his party's ambitions.
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As historian Michael B. Oren noted in his highly praised book Six
Days ofWar: June
1967
and the Making of the Modern Middle East,
Johnson sent a secret message to Eskhol, saying, 'It is essential that Israel not take any preemptive military action and thereby make itself responsi
ble for the initiation of hostilities.
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He had a favorite saying by which he lived and by which multitudes ofJewish people died, notes Soviet expert Arnold Beichman: 'Est chelovek, est problema, net cheloveka-net problemy.
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Only a few days before the pastor's murder, Ahmadinejad met with thirty provincial governors and vowed to shut down the country's growing house-church movement, reportedly saying, 'I will stop Christianity in this country.''
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in my mind, I was saying, 'I'm not going to take this out, it sounds valid.
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Am I saying that Putin is Gog, the Russian dictator described by the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel who will form an alliance with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries and attack Israel in 'the last days'? I am not.
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It would, after all, be wonderful to know that Iran is not the steadily, increasingly worrisome nuclear threat that U.S. and other intelligence agencies had been saying it was right up to the release of the NEE.
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For example, Protestants lean toward saying a Palestinian state would be a terror
ist state, but Catholics are virtually split.
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I find it hard saying this, because I said in the early nineties that the radical Muslims would bring down the World Trade Center and the response was no response at all.
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And I am saying here, now, in the beginning of the first decade of the twenty-first century, that the world faces an enormous danger, should Ahmadinejad's Iran acquire atomic weapons.
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[The writer] Mark Twain visited the Holy Land and wrote rather realistically of the forlorn state of the country, saying that it'll only come back to life when the Jews come back here.
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But I am saying that if this problem will not be solved in
2007,
the chances for success later will be far less, and the scope or efforts which have to be undertaken will be simply incomparable.
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We were saying ...
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Putin again and again was saying that he understands-that was my second message-that he understands that [in] the long run, Iranian power in [the] Muslim world can be very dangerous for Russia....
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They are saying and doing many things which are popular.
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After a few minutes of speaking by translation, I concluded by saying, 'You will soon forget who I am, what organization I represent, and what I've said here tonight.
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Were a similar bomb detonated in the heart of Times Square in New York City, a leading expert on nuclear terrorism says, 'The blast would generate temperatures reaching into the tens of millions of degrees Fahrenheit.
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This appears to be just what Ahmadinejad has in mind when he says that Israel is 'heading toward annihilation' and 'one day will vanish.''
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British prime minister Tony Blair says he has been both stunned and sickened by the unprecedented nature of the threats emanating from Tehran.
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If Iran gets the bomb, he says, 'I think we could have Armageddon.''
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:And this prophecy says that in the end times, Russia and Iran will ck Israel?'
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The article went on to describe the blessing Moses gave to Ephraim and Manasseh, two tribes descended from Joseph: 'Their land, says Moses, will yield the `precious fruits' of `the deep lying beneath,' of the
,
ancient mountains' and of the `everlasting hills.''
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He says that he will wait for a while to see if Hamas will renounce violence and accept Israel's right to ex
ist.
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Shaul Mofaz, a top military advisor to the prime minister, confirms that Olmert prefers to negotiate the final agreement with the Palestin
ians based on the Road Map drafted by the Bush administration, but he says, 'Ifwe see that we do not have a partner, then I think we will need to take our fate into our own hands and make a decision where it is right to be and where it is not right to be.''
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'We urge Mr. Olmert to resume permanent status negotiations with us,' says Erekat, though he adds that 'the road to peace and security in the region is not through unilateralism, the building of walls and settlements.''
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'All sides would benefit from such a relationship' between the Pal
estinians and Jordan, says Youssef.
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'This idea could really be the light at the end of the tunnel' of the Arab-Israeli conflict, says Majali.
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He has conquered death and says to all who will lis
ten, `I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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Consider for a moment what such a speech says about the lenses through which the leader of Russia views his country and the world.
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• On his style: 'Everyone says I'm harsh, even brutal,' Putin acknowledged, without ever disputing such observations.
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On De
cember
14, 2001,
the Iran Press Service ran a story entitled 'Rafsanjani Says Muslims Should Use Nuclear Weapon against Israel.''
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OCTOBER
26, 2oo5
WIPE ISRAEL 'OFF TIE MAP' SAYS IRANIAN
New York Times,
OCTOBER
27, 2005
ISRAEL 5111LI BE WIPED OFF MAP, SAYS IRAN'S PRESIDENT
The (U.K.)
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'I am sometimes asked if Iran wants to create such [nuclear] weapons or is thinking about the possibility, and I always reply that it does and is,' says Viktor Mikhailov, director of the Institute of Strategic Stability of Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy and widely considered one of the fathers of the Iranian nuclear industry.
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Finally, Ezekiel
38:8
says this coalition will be gathered from many nations 'to the mountains of Israel.'
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Ezekiel
39:2
also says the coalition will drive 'toward the mountains of Israel.'
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Ezekiel
39:4
says these forces will 'die on the mountains.'
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PARTNERS IN TRADE, TURKEY All RUSSIA EYE CLOSER DEFENSE COOPERATION
Turkish Daily News,
DECEMBER 8, 2004
ETRIOPIA OAS SAVED UP MONEY FOR RUSSIAN ARMS
Kommersattt,
JANUARY 13, 2005
RUSSIA SAYS IT'S READY TO ARM RADA ARAIIA
Moscow Times,
FEBRUARY 10, 2005
RUSSIANS TO SELL MISSILES TO SYRIA
London Telegraph,
FEBRUARY
17,
2005
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In March 2006, Putin became the first Russian leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union to visit Algeria.
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Ezekiel 38:8 says that in the latter years Russia 'will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel'
(NASB).
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Ezekiel 38:12 says Russia will target Israel, the epicenter, the people who live 'at the center of the world'
(NASB).
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Ezekiel 38:14 says Russia will target 'My people Israel'
(NASB).
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Ezekiel38:18 says Russia 'comes against the land of Israel'
(NASB).
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Ezekiel 39:2 says Russia will come 'against the mountains of Israel'
(NASB).
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'I will bless those who bless you,' God says, 'and the one who curses you I will curse'
(NASB).
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Ezekiel
38:18-20
indicates that 'on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,' the Lord God says, 'My fury will mount up in My anger.
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In Ezekiel
39:6,
the Lord says, 'I will rain down fire on Magog and on all your allies who live safely on the coasts.
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Ezekiel
38:22
says that one of the weapons God will use against the enemies of Israel is disease.
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The Lord says to Gog, 'I will turn thee back, and leave but
the sixth part of thee,
and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel' (emphasis added).
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In Ezekiel
38:23,
for example, the Lord God says, 'T will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the
LORD' (NASB).
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Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democrat, says America may have won the war in Iraq but warns 'we may lose the peace.''
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,
Senator Robert Byrd, the Democrat from West Virginia, says 'the cost of the war has spiraled,' yet 'the situation in Iraq has gone from bad to worse' and 'the level of violence only keeps growing, week af
ter week, month after month.
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Democratic senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says that 'invad
ing Iraq has created a crisis of historic proportions, and, if we do not change course, there is the prospect of a war with no end in sight.'
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Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican, says, 'Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse' and warns point blank:
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'The reality is, we're losing in Iraq.''
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Now he says, 'I am embarrassed that I supported the war in Iraq.''
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A NATIONAL CONVERSATION
'I am a man who is very, very optimistic about the future of Iraq,' Sada says with a sense of passion that is at once believable and contagious.
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million barrels a day, says Finance Minister Allawi.'
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The key, he says, is getting the new Iraqi military recruited,
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trained, equipped, and combat ready.
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'Twelve divisions are already functioning,' Sada says.
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As this increasingly battle-hardened force matures, Sada says Iraqis will be able to take charge of their own security and allow American and coalition forces to go home.
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He also says the new Iraqi military is being trained solely for defense purposes and will have no territorial or ideological designs on neighboring countries as in the past, even vis-a
vis Israel.
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They are working assiduously to restore Babylon, home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and turn it into a cultural center and possibly even an Iraqi theme park' The mayor ofthe area says that, 'God willing,' they will even build a Holiday Inn.'
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We are convinced that the Temple will be built because the Bible says it will.
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`Yes, this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says about the precious things still in the Temple and in the palace of Judah's king: `They will all be carried away to Babylon and will stay there until I send for them,' says the LORD.
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One re
spected international Christian research agency says there are
132,000
Jewish believers connected to messianic congregations and
200,000
Jewish believers in Jesus attending Gentile churches worldwide.'
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These numbers are overstated, church leaders in the country tell me, but the fact that they are being published and widely discussed says a lot about the dynamic that is at work and how rapidly the church is growing there.'
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'The growth of the church is really tremendous,' says Daniel Bul, bishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan.
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Iraqi general Georges Sada, who in addition to serving as a senior advisor to Iraq's president has served as president of the National Pres
byterian Church in Baghdad and chairman of the Assembly of Iraqi Evangelical Presbyterian Churches, says that at least 5,000 Iraqis have publicly identified themselves as new followers of Christ just since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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In Acts 2:17-20 Peter, quoting Joe12:28-31, says, ''In the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.
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In 'the last days,' Jeremiah says, God will scatter the people of Elam-ancient Iran-to 'the four winds' and 'there will be no nation to which the outcasts of Elam will not go'
(NASB).
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Next, the prophecy says God will bring his 'fierce anger' against Elam 'and de
stroy out of it king and princes' (Jeremiah
49:37, 38, NASB).
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As I headed to the podium, I kept chewing over those last few sen
tences, and I found myselfreminded that Ezekiel38:9 says that the War of Gog and Magog will 'come like a storm' upon Israel and the world
(NASB).
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I am simply trying to explain what the Bible says will happen, why it matters, and how it will change your world.
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At one point, he came across Ezekiel 38:4-8, where God says to the dictator of Russia, 'I will turn you around and put hooks in your jaws to lead you out ...
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GETTING READY
In his book
Saddam's Secrets,
Iraqi general Georges Sada cites an Arab proverb that says, quite bluntly, 'Don't be a mute Satan.'
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The good news is that the Bible says we can know for certain that we are going to heaven if we put our faith in Jesus Christ.
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Jesus died on the cross in Jerusalem-the epicenter of the epicenter-in our place, and the Bible says that 'God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners' (Romans 5:8).
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The Bible says, 'To all
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who believed him [Christ] and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God' (John
1:12).
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And it gives us the comfort
ing promise that God really does have a wonderful plan for our lives, no matter what lies ahead: '`For I know the plans I have for you,' says the LORD.
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Second, the war was consistent with the overall arc of Bible prophecy, which says that Israel will increasingly be the focal point
of
world atten
tion in the last days.
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Consider this headline:
IN RUM ISRAEL SAYS NEZIILLAN'S ARSENAL INCLIDES 81,111 RICKETS
ASSOCIATED PRESS, MARCH 4, 2008
'Israel says Hezbollah is rearming and has an arsenal including 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council in
a report,' noted the AP 'While Ban's report did not confirm Israel's claim, the U.N. chief reiterated his concern about Hezbollah's public statements and persistent reports pointing to breaches of a U.N. arms embargo, which bans weapons transfers to the militant Shiite Islamic militia.
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On March 21, 2008, as I was finishing this update for
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a new headline popped up in Haaretz, one of Israel's lead
ing daily newspapers: '[Israeli] PM Says Worried Russian Arms Will Reach Hezbollah.'
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'He is emerging as an elected emperor, whom many people compare to Peter the Great,' says Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center and a well-connected ex
pert on contemporary Russia....
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Stalin says, 'Round up and shoot
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all the democrats, and then paint the inside of the Kremlin blue...
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'Ha!' says Stalin.
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The article continued:
Iran is continuing to produce enriched uranium, the report says, a program that the Tehran government has said is designed for civilian purposes.
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The new estimate says that the enrichment program could still provide Iran with enough raw material to produce a nuclear weapon sometime by the middle of next decade, a timetable essentially unchanged from previous esti
mates.
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But the new estimate declares with 'high confidence' that a military-run Iranian program intended to transform that raw material into a nuclear weapon has been shut down since
2003,
and also says with high confidence that the halt 'was directed primarily in response to increasing international scru
tiny and pressure.''
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The new NIE says Iran abandoned its nuclear program in
2003
'in response to increasing international scrutiny.'
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The reason has everything to do with the growing fear people around the world have regarding the future of the Middle East, the growing fascination people have with what the Bible says about the future of their lives and their world, and the growing curios
ity people have over whether there is really a correlation between the two.
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In Matthew 24:14, Jesus says, 'This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come' (NASB).
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Q
Ezekiel
says the War of Gog and Magog will happen in the last days.
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As events unfold and the clouds of war are brewing, Gandalf says, 'The board is set.
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'In the thirty-eighth chapter of Ezekiel it says God will take the children of Israel from among the heathen [where] they'd been scat
tered and will gather them again in the promised land,' Reagan told Mills.
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'Ezekiel says that ...
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Indeed, the prophet Isaiah says that one day God will shower his grace upon the Egyptians and the Assyrians (including the people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and northern Iraq) and draw them to himself and to peace with Israel in a way few can currently imagine.
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Iraqi general Georges Sada told me the only place Al-Qaeda could have gotten 20 tons of chemical weapons for that attack was from Syria, which he says now possesses Iraq's weapons of mass destruc
tion.
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''Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through My servants the prophets of Israel, who proph
esied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? 'It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,' declares the Lord GOD, 'that My fury will mount up in My anger.
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for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD, `Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, `Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
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'Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Now I will restore the for
tunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.
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Right after he says Israel will be reborn in the future, he also talks about Russia and Iran forming an alliance.
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Ahmadinejad says what he means and means what he says.
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See Reuters, ''Iran Says It Joins Nuclear Club,'April 12, 2006.
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See also Amos Harel, 'MI Chief Warns That Iran Will Produce Nuclear Bombs by 2010,' Haaretz, May 10, 2006; Agence France-Presse, 'Iran 2-3 Years from Nuclear Bomb,' April 11, 2006; Con Coughlin, 'Iran'Could Go Nuclear within Three Years,'' Daily Telegraph (London), January 16, 2006; Bloomberg News, 'Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says,' April 12, 2006.
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Glenn Kessler, 'Bush Says U.S. Would Defend Israel Militarily,' Washington Post, February 2, 2006.
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Says Bush Was Surprised by the Iraqi Strike,' New York Times, August 5, 1990.
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Tom Farfitt, 'Putin's Reforms Are Undemocratic Says Governor,' Daily Telegraph, September 19, 2004.
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Iran Press Service, 'Rafsanjani Says Muslhns Should Use Nuclear Weapon against Israel,' December 14, 2001, www.iran-press-service.com.
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On page 59 of Islamic Invasion, Hitchcock identifies Beth-togarmah as 'southern 'Rirkey
-
On page 330 of Things to Come, Pentecost says Beth-togarmah is 'generally identified as Turkey or Armenia, although it is extended by some to include Central Asia,' and cites several sources reaffirming this conclusion.
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See also Joel C. Rosenberg, 'Patin Says Hamas Not a Terrorist Organization,' joelrosenberg.blogspot.com,
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Associated Press, 'UN report: Israel Says Hezbollah's Arsenal includes 30,000 Rockets,' March 4, 2008.
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Report Says Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003,' International Herald Tribune, December 3, 2007.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, of course, vowed to 'wipe Israel off the map' and says Israel's destruction will happen 'soon.'
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The Bible says God loves the whole world and cares for all who suffer, Jews and Gentiles
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alike (John
3:16).
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Matthew
4:24-25
says the news about Jesus 'spread throughout all Syria' and 'large crowds fol
lowed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan' (NASB).
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The text says that they reached out to 'Merles and Elamites' (Kurds and Iranians), 'residents of Mesopotamia' (Iraqis), 'Egypt and the districts of Libya,' and 'both Jews ...
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Teach a Bible study or Sunday School class about the history of the Jewish people, including Scriptures such as Genesis
12:1-3,
in which God says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.
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And as evil as that was, this was no crank we'd met at the Moscow circus.
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Special thanks, too, to Mark Taylor, Ron Beers, Becky Nesbitt, Jan Stob, Jeremy Taylor, Cheryl Kerwin, Andrea Martin, Beverly Rykerd, and the entire Tyndale team; Peter Robbio and the Creative Response Concepts team; Wes Yoder and the Ambassador Agency team; and my agent, Scott Miller, at Trident Media Group.
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So was Ariel Sharon's stroke and sudden fall from power, together with the rapid rise of Hamas to power in the West Bank and Gaza shortly thereafter.
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They have also authorized the sale of nuclear technology to Iran, permitted the training of more than
1,000
Iranian nuclear scientists, and approved a billion-dollar arms deal to provide Ahmadinejad and the mullahs with the latest high-tech weaponry and air-defense systems, making the prospects for a preemp
tive attack by the West far more difficult.'
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He has also strongly hinted that the West may eventually have to resort to the use of military force against Iran if diplomacy fails.
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• What is the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the post
Arafat world? What should we make of recent Israeli efforts to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank? What effect will the rise of Hamas have on the peace process? Is there any hope for real peace and reconciliation between Israel and her neighbors in our lifetime?
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• What is the future of Iraq in the post-Saddam world? Will the violence there simply go from bad to worse? Will our troops be bogged down there forever? Will Americans continue to sacrifice their lives there? Will regional instabi
lities continue to drive up the price of oil, threatening both the health and vitality of our own economy as well as the global economy? Or is there any real hope for peace and prosperity in Iraq, where the West has invested so much blood, sweat, and financial resources?
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Rumors (which later proved to be true) were flying that Barak was poised to give away all of Gaza, 90 percent or more of the West Bank, and half the Old City of Jerusalem-inducing the Temple Mount-to the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat for the creation of a Palestinian state.
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Using the pretext that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount on Sep
tember
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(a visit I have made several times and which is and should be perfectly legal) had somehow violated a Muslim holy site (though Sharon never entered the Dome of the Rock or the Al-Aksa Mosque), Palestinians began rioting on the Temple Mount, throughout East Jerusalem, and all over the West Bank and Gaza.'
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In Ramallah, Arafat's capital on the West Bank, Palestinian mobs had lynched and butchered two Israeli reserve soldiers-a thirty-eight-year-old father of three and a thirty-three-year-old
newlywed-on worldwide television.
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I thought about the warnings Netanyahu had given over the past several months-and over the past several decades-that state
sponsored Middle Eastern terrorists were not content to simply target Israel but would target the West as well, and particularly the United States, known throughout the Muslim world as the Great Satan.
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In his
1995
book Fighting
Terrorism,
for example, Netanyahu wrote, 'It can only be a matter of time before this terror is turned inward against the United States, the leader of the hated West and the country responsible in the eyes of militant Muslims for having created Israel and for main
taining the supposedly heretical Arab regimes.''
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But he also warned that conven
tionally armed suicide bombers and kamikazes were not the most serious threat facing the West.
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In his
1993
book A Place among
the
Nations, `° Netanyahu warned against the West's 'tendency to see the end of the Cold War as the `end of history.''
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Before long, Israel would be able independently to solve its economic woes, finance the resettlement of the Palestinians, and sup
ply housing for Jews and Arabs in the West Bank, East Bank, or any
where else they might choose to live.
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• Through better intelligence, targeted assassinations of Palestinian terrorist leaders and operatives, the security fence around Gaza, and the partially completed security fence in the West Bank, Israel has become increasingly successful at stopping suicide bombings and other attacks.
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His plans call for Israel's withdrawing from roughly 80 to 90 per
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cent ofJudea and Samaria (commonly known as the West Bank) while annexing major Jewish settlement blocs around jerusalem and retain
ing the strategic Jordan Valley as a buffer zone against any future ground-force attacks from the east.
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Majah, who first floated the idea of such a West Bank Jordanian alliance in
1988,
suggests the new entity be called the 'United Arab States' or the 'United Hashemite States' and be patterned after the Eu
ropean Union or the 'Benelux' countries of Belgium, the Netherlands,
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and Luxembourg.
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It will give Jordanians assurance that the West Bank wont become a breeding ground for radicals and militants.
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We were curious about this apparent Scythian heritage of Russia, since this concept is not commonly spoken
of in the West.
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And the West seemed unwilling or unable to do anything about it or to see its prophetic implications.
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But Putin publicly opposed a runoff, summarily declared Yanukovych the winner, and demanded that the West not interfere.
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To each one, I tossed out a possible scenario: a fascist, ultra-nationalist coup in Moscow leads to the assassination of the democratically elected leader of Russia and leaves a nuclear-armed dictator in power itching for a dangerous new confrontation with the West.
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But that last line troubled me, for when one looks at Russia through not only the political and economic lenses but also through the third lens of Scripture, one sees that Russia is, in fact, destined to become an enemy of the West, and particularly of Israel, in part because of its alliance with Iran.
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A top advisor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently said, 'A dash be
tween Islam and the West is inevitable, and we must be prepared.'
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KREMLIN JOINS 'AXIS Of EVIL,
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FORMS MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH IRAN
The Iranian leadership has certainly been preparing for a dash be
tween Islam and the West as they feverishly try to build, buy, or steal nuclear weapons, as well as the missiles to deliver such weapons to their intended targets.
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'A growing number of observers in the West are concerned that Vladimir Putin is becoming a new Russian dictator.
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I think you have in Russia an angry loser [and] I think it's wrong and immature for anybody to believe that Russia has joined the West
ern camp....
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Ahmadinejad 'boasts that the Imam gave him the presidency for a single task: pro
voking a 'clash of civilizations' in which the Muslim world, led by Iran, takes on the `infidel' West, led by the United States, and defeats it.'
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Israel was again surrounded by hostile Arab t and Islamic forces and once again won a tremendous victory, in this case winning back the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), the ancient Philistine territory of the Gaza Strip, and the strate
gically critical 'mountains of Israel' to the north (the Golan Heights).
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In the West Bank town of Ramallah, Putin met with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.
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Top U.S. officials in the White House and National Security Coun
cil were stunned as Brezhnev threatened to turn an already dangerous regional confrontation into an overt global showdown between East and West.
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Sure enough, as the Israelis demolished the forces of the Arab coali
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Lion over the next three days and captured the Sinai, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights, reunified the holy city ofJeru
salem, and began an offensive against Damascus, Moscow saw itself staring into the face of a geopolitical disaster.
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He immediately ordered the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean to turn around-it was then heading west toward the Strait of Gibraltar-and steam toward Israel as a show of solidarity and to warn the Soviets not to get directly involved.'
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WHY THE WEST IS LOSING THE WAR ON TERROR
BY
MICHAELSCHEUER
IRAQ EMERGES FROM CRABS AS REGION'S INEALTNIEST COUNTRY
ing about a season of stability and prosperity are making the mistake of viewing current events through only political and economic lenses.
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They have come so far so fast from the dark days of Saddam that, un
like the naysayers in the West, they have no doubt even more dra
matic and positive changes are coming.
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[In the past] the West has tried to force Chris
tianity on us-its the feeling of force that is the real tension.
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'We need our people to know the real West, to un
derstand that the West ain't no angel, but it ain't no demon either.'
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The `big one' Californians and particularly San Fran
ciscans have feared for so long could be triggered, bringing unspeakable devastation, though it would by no means be isolated to the American West Coast.
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One month later, the assassination in London o£ Alexander Litvinenko-an ex-KGB operative turned critic of Putin and a man who was investigating the murder of Anna Politkovskaya-stunned the West and raised chilling new questions about who Putin is, what he wants, and how far he is willing to go to get it.
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The Associated Press notes that the move 'threatened to further aggravate Moscow's already tense relations with the West.''
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In an address to the 'International Seminar on the Doctrine of Mahdism' in Tehran in August of that year, Ahmadinejad warned that the West's day was almost finished and that the preparations for the Twelfth Imam 'will soon be complete.'
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Even setting aside a prophetic war for the moment, either the West will launch an attack to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear-armed nightmare or some combination of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al-Qaeda will launch a cataclysmic war against the Jewish state, and possibly against U.S. targets and/or inter
ests.
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Q
a
Are you really certain that the West, particularly the U.S., will not come to Israel's
defense during
the War of Gog and Magog?
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He sided with the West against Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein after the
9 / 11
attacks.
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Some 70 percent of Jordanian citizens are Palestinians, and Hamas would love to radicalize them and use them to help over
throw the king and unify Jordan, the West Bank, and Gaza into one jihadist state poised at Israel's throat.
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presidents have pushed hard diplomatically for a final status peace deal between Israel and her neighbors, American Christians are deeply conflicted about the goal of creating a sovereign
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Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
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But sig
nificantly, they also want to demonstrate biblical love and compassion to Israel's neighbors, such as the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza and the people of Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and the rest of the Middle East.
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CHRISTIAN CONCERNS ABOUT A PALESTINIAN STATE
The polling firm asked, If a Palestinian state were established in the West Bank and Gaza, do you believe it would more likely be a peaceful, moderate democracy or a terrorist state?
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: I
think the West misunderstood, and still misun
derstands, the threat of radical Islam.
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It is a fanatic messianic ideology that seeks to have an apocalyptic battle for world supremacy with the West.
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It seeks to correct what it sees-its disciples see-as an accident of history, where the West has risen and Islam has declined.
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And that is what is not yet understood in the West, and certainly, if it's understood, its not acted upon.
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And to have such a regime that believes in apocalyptic Armageddon with the West-in which millions will die on both sides, but the Muslim mll
lions go to a Muslim heaven with all the trappings-to have that crazy ideology in charge of a country that is developing atomic weapons is
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unbelievably dangerous, and it should stop.
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ROSENBERG:
How much time
does the West have
to make a decision to act decisively to stop Iran?
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So had the West preempted against Germany in the 1930s, there would have been a lot of controversy and a lot of argument against excessive violence.
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In the West you'd be criticized, but you'd be saving the world, and probably saving mil
lions and millions of lives.
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They want to concentrate on completing their nuclear program, because once they have that, then they could threaten the West in ways that are
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unimaginable today.
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ROSENBERG:
So is it your
assessment
that it's very possible that the next war, if it's not
launched
by
the
West to stop Iran, will be Iran trying to
eradicate
Israel?
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It's not so much that they hate the West because of Israel; it's that they hate Israel because of the West.
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And of course they hated the West