Bernard Baruch Quotes
... a rude, ignorant, uncouth man.
Characterizing President Harry S Truman:
Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, Businessman & Chairman, War Industries Board, U. S. Delegate to U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, The Public Years
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By the beginning of the 16th century, the Christian Islamophobia and prejudice had spread to each country of Europe. As this quotation illustrates, it even was institutionalized to language.
Johnson was probably the most racist president in American History. Also the most ignorant. He is the only President to have never attended a single day of school.
Supporters of medical reform include:
Characterizing President Harry S Truman:
Referring to Harry S Truman who had run a haberdashery shop:
After Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur;
Harriman was sent to Tokyo to meet with the general.
Truman told Kennedy to keep quiet or he would "throw him out the window." Truman was about to physically attack Kennedy he was so angry. Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer and an admirer of Mussolini and Hitler and this ended his active political career. His oldest son Joe was his favorite, but Joe did not share his father’s fascist inclinations. He not only enlisted for service in WWII but he volunteered for a very risky secret mission on which he was killed. Kennedy blamed Roosevelt for assisting England (he had been the ambassador was pro Hitler and had urged against American involvement) and hence the war. Kennedy’s oldest son Joe, had enlisted to fight Germany. He was a pilot who had volunteered for a very dangerous secret mission in which his plane blew up and he was killed. Joseph Kennedy blamed Roosevelt personally for the death of Joe. Driven out of active politics, Kennedy used his wealth to promote his second son’s political career, and JFK and his brothers had managed thereafter to be politicians in the mold of Franklin D. Roosevelt and reject their father’s political philosophy. To this day, most Americans have no idea that the elder Kennedy held such positions.
The only soldier ever so honored
1st Earl of Oxford. While clearly a gross overgeneralization, the Austrian leadership were in the process of making some very stupid policy decisions that led to WW I and the destruction and breakup of their empire.
After amassing a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange, he impressed President Woodrow Wilson by managing the nation's economic mobilization in World War I as chairman of the War Industries Board. He advised Wilson during the Paris Peace Conference. He made another fortune in the postwar bull market, but foresaw the Wall Street crash and sold out well in advance. In World War II, he became a close advisor to President Roosevelt on the role of industry in war supply, and he was credited with greatly shortening the production time for tanks and aircraft. Later he helped to develop rehabilitation programs for injured servicemen. In 1946, he was the United States representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, though his Baruch Plan for international control of atomic energy was rejected by the Soviet Union.
