Gerhart Gessell Quotes
Brilliant opinion. I’m looking forward to reading it.
Gerhardt Gessell, Federal Appellate Judge, Statement to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who had just written a Supreme Court opinion upholding one of Gessell’s opinions, Quoted on C-SPAN America & The Courts, August 19, 2001
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Some claim that the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese aggression of WWII was the doing of the military clique that had dominated the government. This quotation shows that there was much enthusiasm by the traditional civilian politicians as well.
A few days later the President fired Brown from heading the relief effort for his poor handling of the crisis. Brown then resigned from the Government. It is not known whether the President could not recognize what most Americans did or whether he was trying to avoid the political embarrassment of firing on of his political appointments—one which had no previous emergency management experience. He had been a lawyer and his management experience consisted of managing horse shows.
This quotation was documented by an FBI illegal wiretap of King and his associates. The illegal wiretap had been insisted upon by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who was a racist and somewhat of a paranoid about communists. However, Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy personally approved the illegal wiretap.
While many people the world over listened to this “Speech of Hope” and approved it enthusiastically, Galbraith had a particular interest in the speech. He had helped the Secretary write it providing not only much of the wording but also the economic ideas.
