Susan Collins Quotes
I have never endorsed Roy Moore. Just the fact that he was forced off the state supreme court is enough for me.
Collins, Susan. Quoted in "Sen. Susan Collins says Roy Moore should step aside." By Associated Press, Portland Press Herald, 10 Nov. 2017.
Chase a Supreme Court justice at the time was a very partisan Federalist. The Senate was controlled by the Democratic Republicans. Randolph, then a member of the House of Representatives, orchestrated the impeachment of Chase because of his extreme partisanship. The Senate in trying the case had to decide for the first time what “high crimes and misdemeanors” the actually means in terms of impeachment. A number of the Democratic Republicans joined the Federalists in taking the view that however undesirable the Supreme Court justice’s partisanship would be, that did not reach the threshold of a “high crime and misdemeanor.” Chase was acquitted. In this sense this impeachment trial was similar to that of President William Clinton almost 200 years later. The behavior was undesirable but did not amount to a high crime and misdemeanor, Clinton was also acquitted.
George W. Bush had become very unpopular and many politicians were trying to distance themselves from him, his policies, and the poor implementation of those policies. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat, had just lost his own primary election and was attacked because he advocated support of the American president in war and foreign policy.
The statement is reprehensible….If I find out some damn fool aide did it, I’ll fire the sonuvabitch.
Weeks before, President Johnson had directed Joe Califano to leak to the press that government officials considered Bethlehem Steel Company executives who raised prices to be “profiteering from the war in Vietnam.” The story was in the papers, editorials criticized the steel executives, and they became outraged. Then, when a businessman complained to the President about the profiteering charge at this meeting, he acted surprised and made this remark.
Leahy also served as the U. S. Ambassador to the Vichy French Government. This was the German puppet government where traitors like Laval operated a government that was French in name only. After the war Laval was executed as a traitor. Vichy was the area of France where the Fascist French set up their government. See {587230} and {587229}.
press speculation about the governor's possible extramarital affair with Flowers
In 1963 Great Britain was rocked by the Profumo affair where the Defense Minister and a Russian officer were sharing the same mistress.
Chambers was prescient and to the regret of the right wing, did not listen to him. The reality was that McCarthy, unscrupulous, mentally unstable and an alcoholic intimidated even his own party members and this one sick and flawed individual intimidated and threatened to entire American political establishment. Although Chambers called for the Republican Conservatives to act, it was the liberals of both parties who finally took him on, exposed him and brought him down.
A meeting had been scheduled in Laos with American President Barak Obama a few days hence. Journalists and advisers told him to be prepared for Obama to criticize him for the over 1500 extrajudicial murders which he had encouraged thus denying his own citizens the most basic of human rights—the rights to live. Détente went into a tirade and made this statement. The United States cancelled the meeting.
Susan Margaret Collins is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Maine. A Republican, she has represented Maine in the Senate since 1997.
