Jeff Gannon Quotes
Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet, in the same breath, they say that Social Security is rock solid, and there's no crisis there. How are you going to work-you said you're going to reach out to these people-how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
Gannon, Jeff. Press Conference Question to President George W. Bush. White House Press Briefings, Office of the Press Secretary, 26 Jan. 2005.
In the midst of the Great Depression, Townsend had organized millions of Americans into “Townsend Clubs” to save money for their old age retirement. Townsend had proposed that the Government should run such a program where workers paid in every week and then all who were retired or disabled received $30 a week for like. Most economists of the time thought the Townsend old age pension plan unworkable: There was no national pension plan at the time. When Townsend together with two right wing religious extremists formed the Union Party, the one vulnerability that the Roosevelt Administration felt it had was the lack of an old-age pension plan. Within a few days, Roosevelt proposed a new plan of the New Deal to Congress. It was called Social Security. It passed in record time. See {616648} for Harry S Truman’s view of economists.
James Dale Guckert is an American conservative columnist better known by the pseudonym Jeff Gannon. Between 2003 and 2005, he was given credentials as a White House reporter. He was eventually employed by the conservative website Talon News during the latter part of this period. Gannon first gained national attention during a presidential press conference on January 26, 2005, when he asked United States President George W. Bush a question that some in the press corps considered "so friendly it might have been planted" ("How are you going to work with [Senate Democratic leaders] who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?").
