Brigitte Macron Quotes
It is very clear in my mind that the French people elected Emmanuel, and they haven't elected me, although they knew, of course, that we were a couple.
Werner, Dorothée, and Marc Beaugé. "Brigitte Macron: l'interview exclusive." Elle, Hachette Filipacchi Médias, 18 Aug. 2017.
In 1917 the very popular governor was impeached and convicted for misappropriation of public funds. Under Texas law he was precluded from elected office thereafter. In 1924 his wife, Amanda Wallace Furguson, announced her candidacy for the Texas governorship. Critics claimed this was a transparent attempt for Jim Furguson to regain his former power. He not only didn't deny this but made the most of it. The "two governors" won.
At the time it was not known that the President was suffering from the early symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease.
as a result of the Watergate hearings and investigations and proceedings
In 1989 Russia held contested elections for the first time since the 1917 revolution. Numerous incumbent party leaders lost.
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
At that time the Presidential nominee had influence but could not unilaterally determine who his running mate would be as the Party Conventions—especially the Democratic Party Convention—was wide open. The candidate joked in this quotation, but the party leaders were very unhappy with such an open convention and after the 1972 election which they lost handily, the rules were changed to give party leaders more influence. By the 21st century, the primary elections had all but made the party conventions a quaint celebration and no serious decisions were made by the party leaders or the party delegates.
On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.
Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron is a French schoolteacher who is the wife and former teacher of Emmanuel Macron, current President of France.
