John Boehner Quotes
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition.
Boehner, John. Interview by George Stephanopoulos. Good Morning America, ABC News, 28 May 2010.
The emergency was what was called the “Dust Bow” which was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s. Over 350,000 people left the Great Plains. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with a failure to apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion. What makes this quotation important is that it illustrates a remarkable practice of Mrs. Roosevelt that no other first lady as every done. Here the First Lady of a sitting President was overtly whipping up public opinion to complain that the government, led by her husband, was doing nothing to cope with a national emergency. This was very common and Mrs. Roosevelt was way out ahead of the President and his administration on most issues of the day. The President seemed to like the idea and it may have been one of the great public strategies of a Presidency. The First Lady would publicly advocate major reforms. The President could then observe the public reaction, judge the newspaper and pundit pronouncements, see how different special interests reacted. Then he could decide to embrace the reform or ignore it saying that it was just the opinion of his very independent wife. FDR had a very strong ego and had no problem with his wife publicly criticizing him.
He was referring to water rights where short term agreements might have disastrous consequences for future generations. Under the WWI Peace Treaty the high court of Egypt was an International Court. President Wilson nominated Crabites to this court and he served there for 3 decades during which he became a world class expert in Middle Eastern affairs. The failure to have a long-term perspective was a Middle Eastern problem then and did not improve in the next century.
John Andrew Boehner is an American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.
