Anson Jones Quotes
Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.
Jones, Anson. Letter to Isaac Van Zandt. 26 July 1842. Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1907, Vol. II: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, Part I, edited by George P. Garrison, Government Printing Office, 1908, p. 568.
At the time of this quotation, Thompson was campaigning for the Republican Presidential Nomination for which he did not make a good showing in the primaries.
Summers had been a student and professor at Harvard and then served in the Treasury Department. He then returned to Harvard as its President where he had a very stormy and political tenure. University politics can be particularly difficult and nasty. When President Obama asked Summers to be his Economic Advisor, Summers leapt at the chance to get out of the Harvard conention he as in, thus coming to Washington to “get away” from politics. His two tenures in Washington taught him a great deal about practical economics as opposed to the theoretical economics of Harvard and other universities.
He was one of the few people with knowledge about Iraq and their so called WMD program who casted doubt on the CIA and George W. Bush’s “intelligence” that Iraq was about to deploy a nuclear weapon. They anonymously tried to discredit Blix. It was Blix however who turned out to be rights.
Everyone who is employed owes the employer some degree of loyalty and cannot give his public opinion on an issue if it differs from the candidate or party that employees him. This is why it is so important if a Democrat criticizes Democrats or a Republican criticizes Republicans.
At the time Washington was run by Congress and was run very badly as cities go. Mrs. Roosevelt argued for more Congressional resources and interest. But these were never forthcoming. When Washington obtained home rule in the 1960s, many thought it would finally be the example that Mrs. Roosevelt and others had called for. However, it remained a disgrace and one of the worst managed cities in the country.
This quotation illustrates a new tactic adopted by the Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) in 2014. They trained very young children (with their parents permission) in how to handle themselves in a protest when the police arrive and tell them to disperse. By having children as young as 11 protesting shutting down streets in Washington so that they would get arrested. Coping with young children committing civil disobedience was something the police were not used to and involved much more complex procedures than arresting adult demonstrators. In addition, the sight of such young children being arrested for civil disobedience attracted much attention from the media, thereby publicizing the immigration issue. Elias and his mother were both U. S. citizens. In 2006 Elias’s father, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, returned to Mexico to apply for a visa to visit his wife and son. He was denied, so he crossed the border without papers. He was deported from the family home in 2008 and Elias and his mother had not seen him since then. Under the then existing immigration rules and laws, even a person whose spouse and children were U. S. citizens residing in America, could not even get a visa to visit them much less get citizenship. The Obama administration’s “family friendly” policies collapsed with immigration where the policies broke up otherwise intact families.
Anson Jones, also known as the Architect of Annexation was a doctor, businessperson, member of Congress, and the fourth and last President of the Republic of Texas.
