“The job was “a graveyard of politicians” in Washington parlance, traditionally disparaged by the men who held it. The VP before Truman, Henry Wallace, bragged that he had never had so much time to work on his tennis game. “The… — A.J. Baime Copy Share
“He urged Washington to organize a group of American journalists to come to Europe to begin documenting these horrors at once. There were still those who claimed “the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda,” Eisenhower believed. “I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room… — A.J. Baime Copy Share
“The job was “a graveyard of politicians” in Washington parlance, traditionally disparaged by the men who held it. The VP before Truman, Henry Wallace, bragged that he had never had so much time to work on his tennis game. “The Vice President has not much to do,” Truman said, referring to himself as a “political Eunuch.” When asked what he… — A.J. Baime Copy Share
“The Fords were the first in the country to lay a concrete landing strip, the first to build an airport hotel for out-of-town flyboys… — A.J. Baime Copy Share Image
“The whole industrial strength of the United States, should it be directed toward war-making, would constitute power never dreamed of before in the history… — A.J. Baime Copy Share Image
