Posted on 05/01/2012 9:15:42 AM PDT by ml/nj
I'm just wondering how much FDR chirped about his role in the Normandy Invasion? I don't know.
There's only one name I associate with that operation, and he was a military general.
ML/NJ
Take off your tinfoil hat.
I don't think it was bragging, but I heard him say he would drop the Nuke again if he had it ti do over.
Harry moved to Springfield where he could be seen walking the streets with his umbrella, having refused Secret Service Protection, retired on his monstrous salary.
Probably the last of the honest politicians.
When in office, President Truman made $100,000 a year. When he retired he lived off his pension from the Army. Reserve Colonel Harry Truman, Field Artillery, got retirement pay of $112.56 a month. After it was discovered that former president Harry Truman was living off his Army pension and little more, Congress passed the Former Presidents Act of 1958. The act was implemented to prevent former presidents from having to sell their names and the presidency to live comfortably. Truman believed that he "could never lend himself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency."
I see your point. But from what I’ve read (and I might be wrong, but it’s what I’ve read) is that the person got excited and rushed it. Ruining them all.
I’ll Take Ike for 1000 Alex!
As far as taking out Adm Yamamoto That was soly Gen Curus lemat’s decision agin based onintel and FDR didn’t know about it until the pilot’s of Lemay’sconfirmed it.
In the Truman house, his coat and umbrella still hang where he left them after his last walk.
There is a ten-hour time difference between Washington and Japan. I don't think Truman was on the golf course when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Having a late-night poker game with his buddies, there is an outside chance of that.
Today, of course, the criterion is "does this benefit a Democrat"?
Brain Fart deluxe.
More likely playing Walking Back to Missouri, and griping because the media thought his daughter was ugly, and didn’t play the piano well.(Both true)
Harry did a 10 hour series with a local TV Station, it was very interesting Must have seen it after 65 because I was out of the service and working in Joplin, when I saw it. Didn't care for his defense of firing MacCarthur but I was young what the hey. He refuse to apologize for the Nuke but covered for his decision not to let Mac take the NORKS. Claimed we only had one Nuke and he didn't know how many his old buddy FDR gave to the Russians. (I made that last part up. Not the one nuke part tho)
“______and griping because the media thought his daughter was ugly, and didn’t play the piano well.(Both true)
His daughter was ugly? How old are you? Twelve?
No, are you a democrat? Harry complained frequently about the criticism of Margaret.
The MSM was not kind to the first daughter and neither were the comedians. Different MSM today.
I liked the first month of Harry's administration, but after that he let the Commies take over, and they are still there. He invented the Kings X Warfare that is still used today, which is why we haven't won a war since MacCarthur accepted the unconditional surrender of Japan.
The way I interpreted your post #27 was that you were saying that it was true that Margaret was ugly. Only an adolescent would make a statement like that.A person’s looks aren’t important.
I liked Harry,and I was a young adult when he left office,but Ike got my first presidential vote.
I was commenting on Harry's response to all the criticism that Margaret got from the MsM, comedian crowd.
Harry did not take kindly to the mistreatment of his daughter. You must e too old to get satire or even humor.
In 1948 i was in Vinita Oklahoma a very small town, but Harry stopped there on his whistle stop tour. I was close enough to spit in him, no Secret Service people that I saw. Times they have changed. Ike caused me to be an outcast with my family, mother never forgave me.
“You must e too old to get satire or even humor.”
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Yep,just one of those humorless old folks.
Bring on the death panels.
They have been here for a while, but they will soon be sanctioned by law, makes you feel all warm and fuzzy right? Roe was the precursor, anyone with more than two brain cells could have predicted who was next. In fact I predicted that very thing on the day Roe was announced. It started years ago in nursing homes.
The insane people that demand a right to die with dignity, probably don't understand or care that it is never about your right, but the right of the state to kill you and call it dignity.
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