Husseyn Rauf Orbay Quotes
If I accept the job, you will still interfere. I don’t want to fall out with you, as I believe that you are the right man to save the nation at the head of the army.
Ataturk, the great Turkish reformer, was interested in Turkish independence, development, and reform, but was uninterested in the day-to-day administration of government. He knew it had to be done and wanted his friend to be Prime Minister and run the government. Orbay realized that Ataturk would still be the major power in the nation.
Husseyn Rauf Orbay, 1881-1964, Prime Minister of Turkey, Statement to Turkish national leader Kemal Ataturk, July 1922
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Nixon was considering not obeying Federal Court orders. The Federal Marshals would be responsible for enforcing the courts orders. This quotation illustrates how closely the nation came to a virtual civil war or putch.
She had used a number of different designers for her wardrobe until she was criticized for having no consistent theme and look. It was decided that she should select one as her fashion consultant and she choose Cassini and had to tell the others that they were no longer needed. See {592752} for a John Adams related quote.
Ataturk advocated a very strong military establishment that should rarely if ever be used—always preferring a diplomatic, political solution to foreign policy problems.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
President Johnson was trying to organize peace talks in Paris. Nixon didn’t want a public announcement to occur before election day when he was running against Hubert Humphrey. Knowing the South Vietnamese President was reluctant to go to Paris but was under pressure from America to do so, he sent a message through Chennault that he should not accept and “hang on” as Nixon would shortly win. The South Vietnam president refused to go to Paris, Nixon won the election, and then had to cope with the continuation of the war that might well have ended before he took office. Nixon believed that he could get Russia and China to pressure Ho Chi Min to make peace. Nixon's private overtures to the South Vietnam president, violated the Logan Act which prohiited private citizens negoatioating with foreign governments. President Johnson was aware of Nixon's commission of this felony want wanted to prosecute him, but the evicence had been obtained from secret intelligene agency bugging and wiretapping both the South Vietnam Embassay in Wishington and the Presidential Palace in Vietnam the public knowledge of which would have caused a scandal. Instead, he called Nixon and warned him to stop, but the damage had already been done, and the South Vitenamese government would not go to Pariis where they would have to agree to a coalition government with the Communists. THey waited for Nixon to deliver a peace treaty which would leave them in charge of South Vietnam. In the final analysis, the South Vietnamese ended up with nothing and no participation in anything when the U. S. Withdrew and the Communists took over.
