Howard Baker Quotes
Cover-ups don’t work.
Howard Baker, U. S. Senator (Republican, TN), White House Chief of Staff, Interview, NBC Meet the Press, June 15, 1997
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Every military establishment has secrets that they should maintain and are not always forthcoming with facts d explanations. However, the Pentagon is so large with so many layers that there are subgroups and vested interests, prevaricate and lie, even to their own superiors. No one knows how prevalent this is, but there have be a number of major incidents where the were lies and cover-ups—usually to prevent public embarrassment to some element of the military industrial complex.
Often quoted by historians and victims of state murders and wartime atrocities.
Marcus Porcius Cato
Many of the other members of the National Assembly criticized him for “washing the Assembly’s laundry” in public. They argued that the people would lose confidence in the National Assembly. The National Assembly at the time was the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch all at the same time. See {639833} for an example of the public statements he made. “Dissemble” means to lie or shade the truth with the intent of deceiving.
Agree resigned from the CIA in protest to its political position.
See Louis D. Brandeis for an earlier phraseology.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was acrually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was postumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
Howard Henry Baker Jr. was an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. A member of the Republican Party, Baker was the first Republican to be elected to the US Senate in Tennessee since the Reconstruction era.
