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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]\’s

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Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]’s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory…: ‘If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.’ With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you’d forget your grammar too. E. L. Doctorow

Let us never forget

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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country. Franklin D. Roosevelt

There’s nothing entertaining about

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There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht. Frank Rich

You can tell this

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You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we’ve got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi. Fannie … Read more

I got to be

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I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you’re a political junkie like I obviously am – that was – every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I’m very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did … Read more