Robert Jordan Quotes
A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.
Jordan, Robert. The Shadow Rising. Tor Books, 1992.
The Undersecretary had misgivings just before the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, and urged a cancellation:
Sumner was sharp and biting in his criticism of slavery and its supporters. Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Democrats, soon after, sneaked up on Sumner and trapped him in his desk bolted to the floor. Sumner was seriously injured; Brooks, lauded throughout the South.
In modern times, a President has the right to fire anyone in his own cabinet. However, at the time, there was a law that required a President to get the approval of Congress to fire a cabinet member who had been confirmed. The question for the impeachment trial was whether or not President Johnson’s breaking of the law was sufficiently serious a violation to constitute a “high crime or misdemeanor”. There are some who argue that the original meaning of “high crime” when the Constitution was written was treason.
James Oliver Rigney Jr., better known by his pseudonym Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is known best for his series the Wheel of Time (finished by Brandon Sanderson after Jordan's death) which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels. Jordan also published historical fiction using the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Rigney claimed to have ghostwritten an "international thriller" that is still believed to have been written by someone else.
