Henry Codman Potter Quotes
We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
Henry Codman Potter, 1835-1908, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, Speech, Washington Centennial Service, St. Paul's Chapel, New York, April 30, 1889
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Madison was then a Congressman.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
Weyrich and many other extreme religious conservatives are often loose with legal and political facts. Actually President Clinton was impeached by the Republican Controlled House of Representatives, but was acquitted by the Senate which decided that he was not guilty of what his political enemies had accused him of or those things were not of sufficient import to warrant impeachment. What Weyrich probably meant was that if there had been a moral majority in America, Clinton would have been convicted and removed from office. Ironically, the Republican Speaker of the House which impeached Clinton had been Newt Gingrich, who abandoned his first wife and was having an affair with a staff member. Livingston who was then elected speaker of the House also was committing adultery as were many in the group who found Clinton morally wanting for his sexual activity with am intern and his attempted coverup. They too, tried to cover up their scandalous behavior.
The Senator had switched parties.
He had been offered a Cabinet position in Washington. He had been a respected judge in Ohio and was only tangentially involved with politics. What he did see of it he did not like. However, others pressed upon him his duty to help the country and he took the position. But he was never comfortable or even very skilled and the political end of Cabinet service but he was extremely skilled at the administrative and policy making aspect. Theodore Roosevelt personally selected him to be his successor and Roosevelt get him elected. Even when he was President, he rarely enjoyed it and was not very good at the political end of things which caused Roosevelt to be disappointed and then campaign against Taft’s second term.
Henry Codman Potter was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Potter was "more praised and appreciated, perhaps, than any public man in New York City's long list of great citizens".
