Judith Mann Quotes
I found myself in the extraordinarily embarrassing position of agreeing with Dan Quayle.
Judith Mann, Columnist, C-SPAN, Close-Up Foundation, Women in the '92 Election, June 4, 1992
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Calling for the Vice President's removal from the 1992 Republican ticket:
He and a few of his colleagues had been invited to the White House for a screening of his latest movie. President George W. Bush had also invited some members of Congress and other Republican politicians. As Crystal was the star of the movie, the President introduced him and invited him to make some remarks.
Liberal economist Galbraith had just finished testifying before Congress. Conservative Senator Barry Goldwater approached him and stated that he agreed with Galbraith entirely on that issue.
In addition to the Attorney General, Washington’s cabinet consisted only of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury. Both were brilliant, passionate men dedicated to the new nation. However, they held opposite points of view on many major fundamental issues of political approach to the new nation. Washington greatly valued their advice and they each were magnificent administrators of their departments. However, they each distrusted each other intensely and believed that the other was advocating policies and practices that would destroy the new nation. Their squabbling was often public and Washington could never understand why they could not be civil about their disagreements. Ironically, Hamilton turned out to have been right about the assumption of state debt and the importance of business, finance and manufacturing. Jefferson whose vision had all Americans being farmers was wrong on this but was right on the limits of the executive and the rights of the individual vis a vis the government. Jefferson’s views turned out to be the ones most Americans wanted and his Democratic Republican party not only beat the Federalists but ended the Federalist Party. Hamilton died in a duel, Modern America is an amalgam of both of their views with modernity tending more and more towards Hamilton.
Judy Mann was a correspondent for The Washington Post where she wrote about women, children, and the politics of the women's movement.
