Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes
You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president.
His reference was to the Democratic Presidential Nomination Campaign of 2004 where Dean’s early campaigning changed the entire direction of the Democratic Party, but then began to do poorly in the primaries as a result of a series of mistakes.
President Kennedy and Dean Rusk were discussing the ratification strategy of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. The Secretary of State wanted Kennedy to hold off a televised address to the nation until after the Senate completed its ratification hearings:
Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. Rogers, who did not usually support individual politicians, made fun of them all, but he thought that Sinclair would be a good political leader. Sinclair lost, but it was close.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is a Brazilian politician and former union leader who served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011. He was a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT) and ran unsuccessfully for president three times before achieving victory in the 2002 election. He was re-elected in 2006.
