Jonathan Scott Quotes
Drew's a total wimp.
Scott, Jonathan, and Drew Scott. It Takes Two: Our Story. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
Describing the Cuban air force attack on, and destruction of, unarmed civilian protest planes:
Armstrong rarely commented on politics (see {615854}), but the Governor defying the Supreme Court and not letting his people even go to school with other students was too much for him. He not only made the statement, but he approved it for publication. This shocked many who knew him as an apolitical person. He was particularly distressed with President Eisenhower who although he had warned Faubus that he would enforce the court order and then used federal troops to do so, Eisenhower was a man of action and not rhetoric and his lack of firm public statements overlooked an opportunity to use the Presidential “bully pulpit” and exercise his moral leadership and authority. Many then, and even 50 years later, were not sure where he stood on the issue of school desegregation.
See Brady {640935} for a later version of this idea.
