Jack Kingston Quotes
Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
Kingston, Jack. Interview. CNN, Cable News Network, 2016.
Lewis had sent Nkrumah is resignation. He believed that the economic policies that Nkrumah had chosen against his advice, risked economic disaster for Ghana in the long run. Nkrumah had wanted to invest very scarce country resources in “prestige projects” which had high visibility in the country and to the world but really just drained capital and did not develop infrastructure or economic capability of the country. He felt that if the people could be proud enough of their new nation and the world could respect them, the future would be better. So for example, he opened diplomatic missions throughout South America while at that time, Ghana was doing no business with South America. Lewis turned out to have been right, and Nkrumah had gambled and lost. Ghana had very little economic development or improvement in standard of living.
They had just attended a meeting which included the Kennedy appointee as Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara,1916-2009; LBJ remarked that McNamara was clearly the smartest person in the room.
John Heddens Kingston is the former U.S. representative for Georgia's 1st congressional district in southeast Georgia, serving from 1993 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party and was part of the House leadership (2002–06) when he served as vice-chair of the Republican Conference. In 2014, he ran for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by retiring senator Saxby Chambliss and advanced beyond the May 20 primary to the July 22 runoff, where he was defeated by David Perdue.
