Posted on 11/23/2020 11:48:26 AM PST by Red Badger
So was Teddy Roosevelt.
“I effing hate this is happening to our country.”
I actually love it. I hated what lead up to this and how many couldn’t see the forest through the trees. Hated that the whole way. I actually have a bit more hope that this will all be resolved in good time. I can weather the storm.
I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. One word of warning, which, I think, is hardly necessary in Kansas. When I say I want a square deal for the poor man, I do not mean that I want a square deal for the man who remains poor because he has not got the energy to work for himself....August 31, 1910
Another TR quote about being Vice President: “I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than Vice-President.”
He was VP for all of 6 months before his boss was offed.
**Kennedy got us into Vietnam during his presidential term. He pushed for involvement in Vietnam long before that, when he was a senator in 1956.**
Wrong.
http://bostonreview.net/us/galbraith-exit-strategy-vietnam
**....readers who actually pick up McNamara’s book may experience a shock when they scan the table of contents and sees this summary of Chapter 3, titled “The Fateful Fall of 1963: August 24–November 22, 1963”:
*A pivotal period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, punctuated by three important events: the overthrow and assassination of South Vietnam’s president Ngo Dinh Diem; President Kennedy’s decision on October 2 to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces; and his assassination fifty days later.* **
Kennedy got us into the Vietnam war, but in a very limited surrogate roll. In 1963 the mobbed-up CIA assassinated Vieatnam’s President Diem. Within a month of Kennedy’s assassination Kennedy did two pivotal things: 1) He delivered a speech in Houston decrtrying the power of American “secret societies”, and 2) He drew up papers to pull out of Vietnam. Soon after Johnson assassinated Kennedy came the supposed “Gulf of Tonkin” event where U.S. shot at phantom vietnamese naval ships as an excuse to vastly escallate America’s fighting roll in Vietnam.
Thanks...I remember that one.
I wonder if Kamala will say the same thing?
I pretty confident her concept of a “square deal” is something far removed from TR’s.
Totally agree with that. Sorry, I meant saying something demeaning about being VP and within 6 months, behold, someone takes the old man out.
That thought haunts my mind.
Remember 1980. The Dems screamed that Ronald Reagan was too old to be President as he was 70 years of age when he took office. There were bets he would not last his first term, and one magazine had an illustration of Reagan laying on an autopsy table.
Yet now the Dems are pushing a 78 year old near senile old man claiming he is the best for the job. I bet Kamilla Harris is chomping at the bit to take over. Probably the only way a woman will get the Presidency. Jill better watch Biden’s back close.
*You know this how?*
I knew some deserters. Why?
More hippy dippy trash. Liars all.
....Hippies who were forced into a war they didn’t want or believe in.
It’s no coincidence that we inherited the Vietnam War from France, and that the assassin who delivered the head shot from the grassy knoll was from French Corsica. In World War 2 Corsica had become the center for underworld logistical supplies for the allies ....with a cut held back. The movie Catch 22 was fiction, but the setting was not. The same organization persisted through the Vietnam War.
bkmk
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