Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
Edwards, Elizabeth. Interview. Morning Joe, MSNBC, Dec. 2007.
Smithsonian: “Donovan, the chief of the OSS, was so eager to show off his agency’s latest lethal gadget—a pistol with a total silencer—that he took one and a sandbag to the Oval Office. While President Franklin D. Roosevelt was busy dictating to his secretary, Donovan fired ten rounds into the sandbag. FDR gave no notice and never stopped talking, so Donovan wrapped his handkerchief around the still-hot barrel and presented the weapon to the president, telling him what he had just done.” Donovan, Medal of Honor recipient and a wealthy Wall Street Businessman who recruited socialites, baseball players and other usual candidates, was a great favorite of Roosevelt’s, but his unorthodox methods and creative approaches tended to alienate him from J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and the Military Intelligence Officers. Yet he had amazing successes—especially in Europe. When Roosevelt died Donovan’s conservative enemies successfully lobbied President Truman and his cabinet to terminate the OSS, create the CIA and keep Donovan out of the CIA leadership.
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee.