Charismatic Leader Quotes
This quotation is important for two reasons. First, this is one of the most negative attacks on an opponent in a Presidential election in all of American History—to call the opponent ‘dangerous’ to the nation. Second, it is a classic example of two close political friends and allies, after a falling out. Roosevelt had in effect made Taft President in 1908, but Roosevelt was extremely disappointed as Taft was controllable by the Republican Party bosses, who hated Roosevelt. TR then challenged the then sitting President for the Republican Presidential nomination. At that time there were 12 states that had primary elections and Roosevelt won 9 of them. La Follette won 2 and Taft only 1. The majority of the states did not then have primaries allowing the party bosses to make the decision of which candidate to support. Party leaders generally did not like Roosevelt who was a major reformer, so they voted for Taft at the convention pushing him over the top when he clearly was the less popular of all 3 candidates. Roosevelt, outraged by the party bosses overriding the will of the people, then walked out of the convention and organized his own convention and TR ran as the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party). In the general election Roosevelt got more votes than Taft, but the two of them had split the majority Republican vote and the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson was the winner.
Nostradamus made thousands of prophecies most of which seem not to have occurred as he predicted. However there were a few that some people believe predicted later events. In this case, it is argued that he foretold the rise of Adolf Hitler. The crooked cross was supposed to be the Swastika symbol of the Nazi Party.
There is much argument about this. Most generally conceed this to be so in the founding and early early years of an institution, but over long periods of time, the institutions takes on many of the characteristics of the newer leaders who cast the new "shadow". But then there are institutions where powerful boards of directors direct and imprint the organization or the power is dispersed among several people, and the founding or current leader is not that critical. This is particuarly true of institutions such as the United Nations or the United States Supreme Court, and corporations such as Hewlett Packard in the early 21st Century.
Kennedy although sharing some of the pro-Nazi sentiments of Coughlin was one of the first political leaders to recognize Coughlin as a danger. He was one of those instrumental in convincing the Vatican to shut down the priest’s political activities.
