George Brown Quotes
Most British statesman have either drunk too much or womanized too much. I never fell into the second category.
For an example of Brown falling into the first category see {595812}
George Brown, 1914-1985, [Lord George-Brown], British Foreign Secretary, Member of Parliament (Labour), Quoted in The Observer, November 11, 1974
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Though there are several versions of the story surrounding this quote, it is agreed that Brown was at a reception and was drunk and the “creature in scarlet” turned out to be a Cardinal Archbishop.
The King abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. The surface reason was so he could pursue his love for a divorced woman. However, Edward was very sympathetic to and supportive of English and European Fascists like Hitler and WWII with Germany was imminent and the king’s views and relationships would have been very awkward. His younger brother, who became king, was a democrat.
press speculation about the governor's possible extramarital affair with Flowers
President Thomas Jefferson himself forwarded to the House some of the evidence against Pickering, the first Federal Judge to be removed by impeachment.
Referring to his opponent, John McClellan. Attack campaigning and slandering one’s opponent has a long history in American Politics.
Bush had been allowed to join the Texas Air National Guard which meant that he did not have to serve in combat in Vietnam the way most other men his age did. However, there were no records of his having reported for duty during several months when he was to be in service. Bush claimed that he was on duty and there was no action taken against him by the then authorities which detractors attribute to his father’s high position and supporters refer to as evidence of the fact that he did nothing wrong. He had been arrested for drunk driving, and the WMD dispute has ever since raged of whether he had been honestly misled by bad intelligence. Bush was not a functional illiterate but had been a college graduate and had completed graduate school studies. He was a poor public speaker and was not an intellectually curious man and did not read much, but this was a huge exaggeration.
George Alfred George-Brown, Baron George-Brown,[2] PC (né Brown; 2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985), was a British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and held several Cabinet roles under Prime Minister Harold Wilson, including Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State.
