Daughters Quotes
The President had frequent stag (men only) dinners of national notables. At this dinner, the Chief Justice was seated close to the attorney who was representing the Southern segregationists in the Brown v Board of Education case that was before the court. Warren had objected to being in such close proximity to one party to a case before the court. Eisenhower, had taken Warren aside to smooth any bad feelings and thinking Warren might be distressed by the attorney’s racist and segregationist views tried to explain the Southern point of view. Although Eisenhower was not a racist or segregationist himself, he had worked closely with Southerners his whole career, and thought he understood them. Warren was so surprised by the President’s insensitive remark, that he noted it and revealed it in his memoirs.
We associate infanticide of female babies with India and China. However, one of the historical experts on government sanctioned killing tells us that Ancient Greece, upon which Western Civilization is based, was guilty of the same terrible practice.
The number of women who studied Physics and sophisticated sciences in Germany at the time were few and far between. Ironically, Einstein married one of the few. However, the marriage failed for many reasons and his subsequent marriage was not to a scientist. Other conversations with him in later years revealed that his belief was that women were constitutionally unsuited to creative, theoretical science—Einstein’s type of science was almost purely abstract and mathematical. See {588596}.
England in contrast did not even educate many men in arithmetic and accounting and women not at all with the sexist English culture of the day. English merchants were notorious for selling their business at low prices as they got older unless they had an adult son with an aptitude for the business. The Dutch, with educated women could have a wife run a business if the husband died or was disabled, and allow children to grow up, thus keeping the business in the family, but more important for Holland, keeping the business thriving.
