Political Agreement Quotes
He was too ill to read the speech himself and it was read by James Wilson for him.
After defeating the Federalists, Jefferson tried to unite a politically divided and fractious country:
He was half right. There is no way a leading communist would have been elected to the Chamber of Commerce, but 45 days later Stalin and Hitler signed their infamous pact. American communists who had been castigating Hitler all of a sudden received orders to flip-flop and castigate the Americans and English for their war mongering against Hitler. Many quit the party over the incident but Browder and most of the leadership adjusted their rhetoric, only to have to flip-flop again when the pact fell apart and the Russians needed U. S. and English assistance.
There are many who do not agree with Hayden’s thesis that there was a national consensus about the degree of compromise with Constitutional rights. It is the case that the 3 Presidents maintained a continuity, but there was no great outcry of public opinion for roundups and arrests of Muslims after 9-11. The government never at the time revealed the data on what they were doing. When that became public, it was clear that there was no consensus as was the case with torture. The military authorities who interned American Citizens of Japanese Origin argued that there was little public opposition but many citizens did not even know it was happening, and the ones who did, for the most part, thought that it was only the suspected saboteurs and spies who were interned, not American citizens who were suspected of nothing; not little children; not 90 year old men and women. When the facts were known Americans did form a national consensus—that it was one of the worst practices in which the United States ever engaged.
