Neville Chamberlain Quotes

He is referring to Niels Bohr.

Three civil rights workers were kidnapped in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klu Klan in 1964 (Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney) and after a few days the FBI found the car in which they had been driving. He reported to the President that they had been probably been killed. The President asked Hoover why they could not have been kidnapped and taken to somewhere else and held there. This was his answer. He turned out to be right. They were brutally murdered. An all white jury acquitted the murderers, but in 2005 the leader was again tried for murder. The Southern-dominated Senate for years would not pass any anti-lynching legislation and thousands of blacks and some sympathetic whites were brutally tortured and killed. In 2005, the Senate passed a resolution 98-0 apologizing for the inaction over the years on lynching. The two missing senators who did not vote for the resolution were from Mississippi.

This quotation tells us more about Nixon than Reagan. The latter was known for his extraordinary affability. Even his political enemies enjoyed and sought out his company. Nixon in contrast, no one liked to be around on a personal basis. His inner circle pandered to him to ingratiate themselves and jockey for power and influence but few liked him. Reagan and FDR are at the top of most people’s Presidential affability list while, Nixon fights it our with a few fro last place. Often brilliant at politics, Nixon’s people skills and his interpersonal perceptions were terrible.

Lyndon Johnson was unhappy with his low popularity and asked some advisors why it was that people didn't seem to like him:

Baldwin when Prime Minister would not arm England to stop Germany and after he left office, supported his successor, Neville Chamberlain, in his peace efforts which turned out to be appeasement, See {626936}.

1st Earl of Beaconsfield. O’Connell was an Irishman.