Justin Halpern Quotes
They would pull people off the streets, anybody with warm blood who could say yes or no or move arms and legs.
Frank Wisner headed the recruiting effort which began with his personal friends and college chums. No one had any idea of what skills and standards were needed. Actually the WWII OSS (Office of Strategic Services) had a good track record and profiles of good agents, but Director Donovan lost out in the political infighting and was not selected to head the new CIA. Those who ran that agency did not want to do anything that looked like the old OSS so they began by reinventing the wheel.
Samuel Halpern, 1922-2005, CIA Executive, Description of the new CIA trying to staff up in 1948, Quoted in Tim Weiner, Author’s Notes, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, 2007
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Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.
This is one of the major reasons that Slavery was so hard to end in the South. At the time, the dollar value of the Southern slaves was greater than the value of all the land, factories, inventory, and capital equipment of the South. Slaves were not only capital, they were the largest component of Southern capital and Southern wealth. There were numerous ideas of paying slave owners for the freedom of their slaves, and if this was done, it would have been far less expensive in money alone than the Civil War cost. However, the Southern leadership, like Fitzhugh, were totally intransient with culture and customs—indeed the Southern concept of manhood—was dependent in Slavery. The result was that no compensation was paid to slave owners and the South was impoverished as a result of its capital loss and it would not recover for 150 years.
Justin Samuel Halpern is the American author of the Twitter feed "Shit My Dad Says" and the best-selling book Sh*t My Dad Says. He was also the co-writer and co-executive producer of a CBS television situation comedy series based on the book. His second book I Suck at Girls was published in 2012 and was the basis for the 2014 television show Surviving Jack.
