Political Opponent Quotes
During the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a part of the Eastern Communist Bloc, but was very independent. They had a very experienced military and were the one country of the Eastern Bloc who the Russians could not easily militarily dominate. Tito was a great and feared military leader having killed More Germans per soldier with his army than any of the Allies in WWII. He was also very independent of Moscow and would not follow Russia directives. The Russians decided on assassinating Tito but the attempts failed.
Patton always believed that Eisenhower wanted to be President. At the beginning of the war Patton was much senior to Eisenhower, but President Roosevelt promoted Eisenhower above many more senior generals. Eisenhower thought Patton the best fighting general in the army, but a public relations and administrative problem. Several times when he had gone too far, Eisenhower reprimanded him but kept him in his command position. After the fighting was over, Patton became the military governor of part of Germany and was not as successful at peacekeeping and nation building as he was at fighting. Eisenhower was convinced that Patton would destroy himself and get fired by the army command and the President if he continued as governor. Patton confused Eisenhower’s prudent and politic demeanor with the allies as a lack of courage. And Patton could never get over the fact that Eisenhower and never commanded an army fighting in the field. He was jumped to Supreme Allied Commander, in a very bold and brilliant stroke by FDR who passed over many senior generals.
The threat was delivered to Mark Sanford a conservative Congressman from Southg Carolina, Sanford had stated that he would vote against Trump's plan for a replacement to Obamacare. He paid no attention to the threat and the intent of intimidating other Republican members of the House of Representatives failed, There were so many Republican defectors who would not vote for the bill that House Speaker Ryan, withdrew the bill at the last minute has the majority Republicans had so many defectors that the Obama Care replacement coult not possibly pass. This was a great blow to Presieent Trump and not President in history had been thwarted so early in his administration on a major bill. Worse Trump's own party contolled the majority and the entire party had run their campaingns with the "promise" to repeal ObabaCare. However when they tried to do it, they cound it was not so easy and even most of the conservatives proferred ObamaCare to the propsed legislation that the Speaker or the House and the Presidenet were advocating.
