Dick Morris Quotes
I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
Morris, Dick. Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties. Random House, 1997.
Southerners were paranoid that the relatively new Republican party leaders were conspiring to foment slave rebellions. In particular, they believed that the Republican party was behind John Brown’s failed slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry. For many Republicans, Brown’s raid was understandable and even inevitable and moral, but there was no assistance provided to Brown by the Republican party of even members of its leadership. Democrats attacked the Republicans with this charge. There were some strong abolitionists who were Republicans who did believe that violence to end slavery was not only moral but was inevitable due to the intransigence of the South.
Clarke and most of the others were convinced that it was Al Quaeda. Clark recommended a retaliation on the Al Quaeda facilities in Afghanistan. However, the weak FBI director had not then yet figured out what military intelligence, and the other National Security operatives already knew. Tenant and his CIA was then an enfeebled organization with which the FBI would not even share intelligence with. Tenant whose record of being wrong hit its acme on Iraq and WMD’s was unwilling to make a judgment. President Clinton was unwilling to make the independent judgment and launch a military attack unless the CIA and FBI would confirm the culprit as he was being accused of using a “wag the dog” scenario.
Richard Samuel Morris is an American political author and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant.
