Gwen Ifill Quotes
Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public display of affection with George W. Bush at last month's dedication of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
Ifill, Gwen. "Gwen's Take." PBS, Oct. 2016.
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Previously the Federalist Party had virtually self-destructed in ideological bickering and partisanship, even throughout the War of 1812.
Warning of the problem of multiple contacts and negotiations with the enemy in the Vietnam War:
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
There are many who do not agree with Hayden’s thesis that there was a national consensus about the degree of compromise with Constitutional rights. It is the case that the 3 Presidents maintained a continuity, but there was no great outcry of public opinion for roundups and arrests of Muslims after 9-11. The government never at the time revealed the data on what they were doing. When that became public, it was clear that there was no consensus as was the case with torture. The military authorities who interned American Citizens of Japanese Origin argued that there was little public opposition but many citizens did not even know it was happening, and the ones who did, for the most part, thought that it was only the suspected saboteurs and spies who were interned, not American citizens who were suspected of nothing; not little children; not 90 year old men and women. When the facts were known Americans did form a national consensus—that it was one of the worst practices in which the United States ever engaged.
See {640107} for another quotation creating this so called union. It made great sense to the King, but little to the Poles and Lithuanians who each saw themselves as a very different people and wanted little to so with the other.
She was shot in the head in a mass shooting which killed one of her closest staff members, She made a remarkable recovery and rehabilitation but decided to resign so she could devote her energy to her rehabilitation. After Congress she did that and gave her effort to Americans for Responsible Solutions, an organization to try and reduce mass shootings.
Not only were the Democratic and Republican Parties at odds, but both political parties were split with the different factions very hostile to each other. The Populists and the Progressives were putting great pressure in the Democrats, and the Corporate Republicans strongly and often viscously opposed President Roosevelt. America was politically fractionated. Roosevelt called for a comity and unity which never took place.
He delivered this speech towards the end of the 1st year of President Donals Trump's Administration. Althought he never mentioned Trump by name, this speech was a rare major criticism of a sitting president by a former president. This was also one of the few speeches Bush gave after leaving office. On the same day, former President Barak Obama also gave a major speech and also castigated President Trump although neither of the ex-presidents knew that the other was about to deliver their criticism of Trump. It was one of the very unusal occurances in American history.
Gwendolyn L. Ifill was an American journalist, television newscaster, and author. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program with Washington Week in Review. She was the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and co-anchor and co-managing editor, with Judy Woodruff, of the PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. Ifill was a political analyst and moderated the 2004 and 2008 vice-presidential debates. She authored the best-selling book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.
