Aleksandr Lebed Quotes
When I looked them in the face, I saw a crowd of imbeciles.
The general was a delegate to the 28th Communist Party Congress in 1990.
Aleksandr Lebed, Russian General, Member of Parliament, and National Security Director, Quoted in The Washington Post, October 21, 1995
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Referring to John Foster Dulles:
Taft was not unintelligent. He was actually quite bright which is one of the reasons that TR selected him as VP and supported Taft for President in 1908. Taft did have an aversion to confrontation and political battle, and he was unable deal with the conservatives of his Party to maintain some independence and continue the TR progressive reforms. Roosevelt, who had been a very close friend of Taft, was disillusioned with the Taft Presidency and ran against him in the 1912 Republican Primary.
See {620027} for an example of Feith’s logic.
They never met. Harrison lost to Barkley by a single vote. Harrison’s fellow Senator from Mississippi was Theodore Bilbo, 1877-1947, a notorious racist and demagogue and Harrison would have nothing to do with Bilbo. However, in 1937 Harrison was a candidate for the Senate Majority Leader and appeared tied with Alben Barkley. Bilbo sent word to Harrison that if he would meet with him, Bilbo would vote for Harrison.
The reference was to the Royal Governor of New York, William Cosby. He was not mentioned by name but the context was very clear that it was he who was being lampooned. The Governor was furious, and had the New York Weekly Journal press burned to the ground. Then the crown prosecuted the publisher, Peter Zenger. This was one of the most famous trials in American history. Although it was clear that the existing law against defamation had been violated, the jury of New York colonists acquitted Zenger. To this day prosecutors in England and America are very worried about what has been called “jury nullification” of the law, and every state except Maryland has strung laws making it difficult if not impossible for a defense attorney to even suggest that the jury should quit because the law is wanting or unjust. The 1st Amendment was very much influences by the Zenger case.
Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Troops before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the second largest Russian region. He served four years in the latter position, until his death following a Mi-8 helicopter crash.
