I LIKE IKE... I EVEN LIKED *HARRY*! -- Just a Minute for Friday 05-30-08

Well the long HOLIDAY week is over. Hope you survived OK.

It’s been a tough week at the White House. Scott McClellan became an instant card-carrying member of the ‘pole-cat party’ with his book of secret revelations that he had never spoken to anyone about before it hit the bookstores. I think it’d be a good idea for Scott to be judicious about where he holds book-signing parties – not too near Republican hangouts. San Francisco might be OK…certain parts of Texas however could be questionable.

So… I’d had this endorsement (see below) from an unexpected quarter here on the desk for a while – and this seemed like a good time to turn it loose.

I can remember how Harry and Bess drove themselves to Union Station on Inauguration day in January 1954. I don’t think retiring presidents had any Secret Service protection after the swearing in ceremony in those days… certainly there was no motorcade as they caught the train back to Independence. The Truman Library is one of two I have visited. Whenever you’re near one of those establishments, you’ll do yourself a favor to sample it even if it’s not your native party. I’ve yet to make it to a Republican one – but hopeful. They’ve gotten more lavish over the years. I think Ike’s is the one I’d like to see most right now. We did visit the D-day memorial in my home county of Bedford in Virginia. And that’s an inspiration, as are most of the memorials you can visit in the Capital City.

Well… enough of the travelog. Summer is underway. The Fourth of July will be here before you know it and it’s a quick downhill from there to Labor Day… so enjoy it. Have a good weekend.

Cordially, IN HIM

Jack

“JUST A MINUTE”

I LIKED IKE AND HARRY

Just A Minute – I say it’s time the White House gets some good news. So I’m quoting H.V. Kaltenborn who used to open nightly newscast with: “Ah – there’s good news tonight.”(quote)

Seventy one percent of the American public disapproves of how Bush is handling his job as President, an all-time high in polling. His position can be compared with Harry Truman who left Washington unpopular and alone in 1953.

Today, with the passage of time, most historians and certainly the American people, see Truman in a different light, primarily for his willingness to stand firm against Soviet aggression, whether against Greece or South Korea, and proclaim the Truman Doctrine, effectively defending the free world from Soviet efforts to expand their hegemony.

Like Truman, George W. Bush, in my view, will be seen as one of the few world leaders who recognized the danger of Islamic terrorism and was willing with Tony Blair to stand up to it and not capitulate.” (unquote) - columnist and former Democrat Mayor of New York, Edward Koch.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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