Scare Tactics Quotes
as opposed to favoring a monarch or a dictator Jefferson observed that the Federalists, led by John Adams, exaggerated reality and played to the peoples’ fears. This was very true and the accusations about Jefferson and his followers were as severe and untrue as ever in American politics. However, Jefferson’s Democratic Republicans were also not above exaggeration and hyperbole. The electorate generally saw through the Federalist exaggerations and not only threw the Federalists out of office but rejected them so thoroughly that the party was ended in American politics to be later replaced by the Whigs.
Stalin used this phrase during the period when the U. S. had nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union did not. Stalin had his scientists working frantically to catch up but in the interim he outwardly displayed a bravado diminishing the military importance of nuclear weapons and minimizing the disadvantage that the Russians were at.
Dr. Snyder was the youngest physicist at Los Alamos working on the Atom Bomb Manhattan Project. His rocketry skill was used to fire probes into the highly radioactive area to obtain samples and measurements immediately after the test bomb was exploded.
Nixon, when he took office, berated the CIA Director in front of the entire National Security Staff for underestimating Soviet Military capability. His intense pressure caused the CIA to go through a period where they constantly overestimated Russian capability and intentions. They found that most politicians preferred a serious threat rather than be accused of spending so much of the government’s budget—roughly half—for Defense.
