Conchita Wurst Quotes
But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.
Wurst, Conchita. "Conchita Wurst says she would like to spend a week with Vladimir Putin to 'understand him'." The Independent, Independent Digital News & Media, 24 May 2015.
In 1963 the White House Chief of Staff, Walter Jenkins, was arrested for homosexual solicitation at the YMCA. Johnson fired Jenkins but was personally very supportive to an old friend and advisor. However, the story was the major media story of the time. Johnson was preparing a major speech and hoped to get the Jenkins story off the front page.
For a leader of a hostile foreign power, this is as complementary a description as there is.
Kennan was talking about the Russians, but the same principle seems to hold with any autocratic government and in some cases even democracies. However, the tradition of secret diplomacy with no transparency is established even in many democracies. Great Britain and France, for example conduct most of their diplomacy in secret as do less democratic governments and tyrannies. They expect us to keep negotiations confidential, which causes American diplomats to be torn between the American view of transparency and the tradition of confidentiality.
Clark had commanded the American and NATO forces in the Serbian War where all the military and political objectives were accomplished with heavy losses to the Serbian’s and none to the allied side—what many think was the most successful war in American History. Like Eisenhower in WWII one great challenge was the political and strategic one of keeping the coalition of all the allied governments working together. His perspective had been like Eisenhower’s which was much wider and geopolitical than most military officers.
Goldwater had predicted that the LBJ campaign would attack him for some of his warlike and aggressive statements and try and depict him as someone not responsible enough for the Presidency. He was personally convinced that his hard line policies would inhibit Russian aggression. He prepared this and other ads, but the voters were not persuaded and Goldwater was trounced.
Thomas Neuwirth is an Austrian singer, recording artist, and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst (also known mononymously as Conchita). Neuwirth came to international attention after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as Austria's entrant with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".
