Stuart Rothenberg Quotes

The Russian leadership thought little of it and assumed that it had no consequences. An American Communist official in the Kremlin, Morris Childs, told them that Nixon might actually lose his job over Watergate. Childs was actually an FBI spy. See his quote.

Referring to President Andrew Johnson:

Clinton later admitted to fallatio, claimed he was referring to sexual intercourse, and apologized for misleading the American people.

He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes

The George W. Bush administration had sought to discredit and punish a vocal critic whose wife was a covert CIA operative. Despite a law that prohibited it, the Presidential and Vice Presidential Aides leaked this information to the press. A special prosecutor had investigated and found that the Vice President’s Chief of Staff had covered up the plot and obstructed justice and lied to investigators and Libby was convicted by a Jury. However, at the time, the degree of involvement of the President, the Vice President and other key administration officials was unknown and many people such as Trump agreed with several of the trial jury members that Libby was taking the fall and protecting the administration.

In an ironic turn of the tables, Frank Kingdon, a staunch Roosevelt supporter wrote a book defending the President and used the phrase as a title, mocking the upper class hatred of FDR.

First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 1874-1944, invited Jessie DePriest the Black wife of a Congressman to tea at the White House. No Black woman had ever been there socially before. This was a typical Southern reaction. The Texas State legislature actually passed a resolution chastising the First Lady—the only such action in American history.

Played the President in the NBC Network West Wing

Alberto Gonzalez, White House Counsel and later Attorney General who was forced to resign and David S. Addington, Counsel to the Vice President, had come up with a novel view of the powers of the presidency. They argued that since the President is the Commander in Chief, in a war situation or intelligence gathering thereto, has the Constitutional responsibility for that function, he need not obey any laws of Congress as in the conduct of the war Congress would be impinging on the Constitutional separation of powers which itself was prohibited by the Constitution. The argument did not find any significant legal support but for a while the George W. Bush White House behaved as if this were the law, despite the fact that even in the American Revolution and the War of 1812 Congress passed laws regulating the conduct of the armed forces as is provided for in other parts of the Constitution. Yet even Goldsmith would allow the President some powers that many think are unconstitutional and/or belong to Congress. See {32436}.

The agency was supporting a program to recycle human feces which were treated in communities by sanitizing them and removing most of the water and packaging the dried sludge as a fertilizer for lawns, gardens, parks, and farms. The treated biosolids were marketed under many names such as ComPro, BioEdge, Notrohumus, Vital Cycle, etc. To promote the concept and overcome the bad image of human feces, the agency arranged to have it spread on all the lawns and gardens of the White House. The decided that “poo” and other descriptive nouns would not fit the desired image. See {635106} for their solution.

Nixon had lied to Ford as well as the American people. Ford, having been selected by Nixon as VP, felt it was his obligation to defend Nixon until he was about to become President himself. At that point he would have destroyed his presidential credibility on top of Nixon if he kept on with the Nixon lies.

Much obviously is but every President and his White House deals with issues and problems where there is no time or opportunity to take the effect on electoral politics into consideration. Many actions are taken without any such consideration, sometimes to the regret of the President’s political staff. Even then, the press tends to believe that it was a blunder, that the White House misjudged public opinion or the like when in reality, the President and staff never even considered it.