Rosalynn Carter Quotes
When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.
Carter, Rosalynn. First Lady from Plains. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
“Fora” is the plural of forum. It was then preferable to “forums” as the plural form, because “forum” was a Latin word and the Latin plural for nouns ending in “um” was “a” as in “flora and fauna”. This was adopted as U. S. Policy until the second decade of the 21st century when the combination of the War on Terror, and the huge world refugee crises triggered by the Syrian revolution produced much nativist and and-immigration feeling to go along with the small proportion of American anti-immigrants who have almost always been a part of the American pluralistic landscape.
DPs were “displaced persons” -- the euphemism for people who were no longer welcome in their country of birth. Congress, made up mostly of immigrants or the children of immigrants who were poor and downtrodden, were not enthusiastic about the United States absorbing many of the world’s DPs resulting from WWII.
earlier given as 100,000 dead The CIA had actively financed and supported a Coup by General Sukarto in Indonesia. There were horrible atrocities in Eastern Java and other areas where the populations were sympathetic to and would likely vote for the communists. Not only did the CIA do nothing to restrain these atrocities, but the only planes that were engaged were unmarked military jets flown by CIA contract pilots who bombed and strafed many of the Indonesian villages. Originally Ambassador Green had reported that “only” 100.000 Indonesians were killed (in just a few days), but as this testimony showed, the deliberate slaughter involved many more and some historians claim that there were even more murders. This one engagement probably involved many more deliberate killing of civilians in a few days than took place in the entire Vietnam war. However, since the hearings were classified, the Senators were not allowed to tell anyone. Even in the classified hearings Ambassador lied to the Congress about the CIA involvement. No one, including the CIA pilots who bombed the defenseless villages, was ever brought to justice for the killing of the 500,000+ civilians.
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter served as First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981 as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. For decades, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, including mental health. Carter was politically active during her White House years, sitting in on Cabinet meetings. She was her husband's closest adviser. She also served as an envoy abroad, particularly in Latin America. Like her husband, Rosalynn Carter is considered a key figure in the Habitat for Humanity charity.
