Billy Carter Quotes
Jimmy [Carter]'s still mad because I wouldn't take secretary of state. I want to be director of alcohol and firearms.
He was joking. No government position was ever offered to him.
Billy Carter, 1937-1988, President Jimmy Carter's brother, Rifkin & Howard, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter, Bantam, 1977
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Dulles was slated to become Secretary of State when Dewey won the presidency. Dewey was the overwhelming favorite, yet Truman upset Dewey. Four years later, Dulles became Eisenhower's Secretary of State.
In American politics, the politicians who tend to have the most certain views of how America’s military should fight, are often those who have never served in the military themselves. The same is often true for newspaper editors and publishers. Few military officers in every war have expressed these sentiments publicly, but there are even fewer who have not thought it.
Greeley, one of the most powerful and influential newspaper Editors of his day was always bitter that he did not get a patronage job. Newspapers did not make much money then and patronage and cronyism was even more rife than in modern times.
For "Politics makes strange bedfellows," see Charles Dudley Warner
Complaining about his lack of influence over patronage jobs:
Powell’s views and advice to the President regarding Iraq were diametrically opposite that of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and National Security Advisor Condy Rice. The President sadly rejected Powell’s advice. He was right, but he was also a trained professional staff man who maintains his loyalty and does not quit just because his advice is not taken. Many believe that if he had resigned in the political rather than military tradition, the nation might have been spared much of the loss and embarrassment the Iraq invasion and occupation cost us.
William Alton Carter was an American farmer, businessman, brewer, and politician. The younger brother of U.S. President Jimmy Carter, he promoted Billy Beer and was a candidate for mayor of Plains, Georgia.
