Al D'Amato Quotes
... a fool
Characterizing White House Chief of Staff and fellow Republican Donald T. Regan:
Alphonse D'Amato, U. S. Senator (Republican, NY), Power, Pasta and Politics, Hyperion, 1995
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Taft was not unintelligent. He was actually quite bright which is one of the reasons that TR selected him as VP and supported Taft for President in 1908. Taft did have an aversion to confrontation and political battle, and he was unable deal with the conservatives of his Party to maintain some independence and continue the TR progressive reforms. Roosevelt, who had been a very close friend of Taft, was disillusioned with the Taft Presidency and ran against him in the 1912 Republican Primary.
This was Reid’s description of the behavior of some Secret Service Agents bringing prostitutes into a secure area in in Colombia. The facility was established for the preparation of a Presidential visit. A number of Secret Service Agents were fired as a result.
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American lawyer and former New York politician. A Republican, he served as United States Senator from New York from 1981 to 1999. He subsequently founded a lobbying firm, Park Strategies.
