William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Go wretch. Resign thy Presidential chair. Disclose thy secret measures, foul or fair. Go search with curious eyes for horned frogs Mid the wild West of Louisiana bogs. Or where the Ohio rolls his turgid stream Dig for huge bones, thy glory and thy fame.
Bryant, like most New Englanders did not trust Jefferson and saw anything the President did in its worst possible light. He even believed that Jefferson’s great interest in science was evidence of his lack of respect for religion. Nothing he could do was right, much like the Tea Party and President Barack Obama more than 200 years later.
William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878, Poet & Editor, Poem Written in Protest of Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase
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Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend in a hunting accident becoming the first U. S. Vice President to shoot a man since Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton. However, the Vice President and his staff did not make the shooting public till the next day and then by having a member of the hunting party call a small local, friendly, Texas newspaper. Finally, under great pressure the Vice President gave an interview to the Fox News Network, the network who had been most favorable in reporting on the administration.
Lincoln was not above personal attacks on the opposition:
This was one of the best confirmations that Nixon had authorized illegal activity to further his reelection prospects and then orchestrated a cover up of the crimes.
That meant that Lincoln would go to public places like inns and bars. See {584712} .
The George W. Bush administration became notorious for its deception of Congress, the Press and the public. In particular, the administration would develop elaborate scenarios of conditions in the world and develop military and foreign policy responses to them. Soon, it became clear that the scenario upon which the policy and action had been based, was inaccurate—a fantasy to begin with. There has been much debate whether the scenarios were deliberate lies to drum up political support for the administration or just errors of judgment based on bad intelligence. Snow, had to go out and maintain the scenarios even after it became clear that they had been fantasies.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
JFK bested LBJ for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Clare Booth Luce asked LBJ if he would consider the second spot on the ticket. Shortly thereafter Johnson became Kennedy's running mate and was elected. At the inaugural ball, Luce reminded LBJ of his earlier conviction.
This was a very clever play on a slogan that Las Vegas was using at the time to promote tourism and gambeling: “What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas”
Bush had been allowed to join the Texas Air National Guard which meant that he did not have to serve in combat in Vietnam the way most other men his age did. However, there were no records of his having reported for duty during several months when he was to be in service. Bush claimed that he was on duty and there was no action taken against him by the then authorities which detractors attribute to his father’s high position and supporters refer to as evidence of the fact that he did nothing wrong. He had been arrested for drunk driving, and the WMD dispute has ever since raged of whether he had been honestly misled by bad intelligence. Bush was not a functional illiterate but had been a college graduate and had completed graduate school studies. He was a poor public speaker and was not an intellectually curious man and did not read much, but this was a huge exaggeration.
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.
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. The title was a take-off on the film, The Madness of King George, that described a demented king of England.
William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry.
