Succession Quotes
This statement was made after he had led the Muslim Ottoman Turkish Army to success in capturing Constantinople—Byzantium, Istanbul—bringing the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) to an end. He had his sights set on the Western Roman Empire next which was the remainder of what they knew of as the world then.
He had tripled the size of Rus, pulling together the disparate areas which had been under the thrall of the Golden Horde. The custom was when the Grand Prince died he left parts of his dominion to each of his sons and grandsons. However. Ivan changed that pattern and wanted one son to be the ruler over all of what was becoming a large unified state. After that his pattern was followed by all the Czars until the Russian Communist Revolution in 1917." Ivan the Great
Jefferson was appointed Minister to France and presented himself to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs who asked if he was replacing Benjamin Franklin:
Pasha Muhammed Ali was the Ottoman Overlord of Egypt and Syria. He is an unusual example of a leader who was a realist relative to the skills and abilities of his family for succession. His family indeed could not hold Egypt.
Gennadios II, 1400-1473, had been taken as a prisoner when the Ottomans captured Constantinople 3 days earlier. Despite the fact that there was doctrine that said that Islam should be the only religion, Mehmed—only 21 at the time—realized that he had to rule the city including the many Greek Orthodox and had Gennadios freed and personally invested him as the Petrarch of the Eastern Christian Church. Mehmed was particularly shrewd in his choice. Gennadios had been a strong opponent of the Union movement of Eastern and Western Christian Churches would end their schism and reunite. See {635099} for another notable who was vehemently opposed to Union. There were some Unionists among the defeated Christians who were still alive. The last thing strategically that the Ottoman’s wanted was for Union to have traction and the Eastern Christians of Constantinople looking to the Western Christians led by the Pope, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Christian European Kings for an alliance to eject the Ottomans from and retake Constantinople. The graphic depicts Mehmed investing Gennadios—a practice that was followed with each new Patriarch and the Sultan then in office. See {635084} for another quotation describing Ottoman pragmatic religious tolerance. One of Mehmed’s historical heroes was Alexander the Great who was able to rule most of the known world in large part because of his education by Aristotle advising him to be very tolerant of conquered people’s cultures, religious and otherwise. Mehmed, after his death, came under criticism from ultra orthodox Muslims including his own son and successor, for his religious tolerance and emulating a non-believer—Alexander the Great.
Turkey and Israel are the two exceptions. Both are allied formally with the West
She responded to the Lord Chief Justice and to Lord Cecil and asked them to so inform the Commons and the House of Lords. Cecil needed three drafts to convey the response but tone it down a little, thus performing the duties of a modern press secretary.
As soon as the king dies, his successor is immediately vested in the rights, duties, and prerogatives of the king.
Note that the President left Taft, then the Secretary of War, as the acting President and NOT the Secretary of State who many people erroneously think is the senior member of the cabinet, nor the Vice President. Roosevelt just put in charge the man he was most comfortable with. Interestingly, neither the Vice President or the Secretary of State objected or were disappointed. It was generally acknowledged that Taft was the best and strongest leader in the cabinet and that he was as close to the president as possible. See {640479} for a cartoon quotation that was created about Taft’s assignment.
