William A. Rusher Quotes

• I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Important, Pearls

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• You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to her opponents for their motives, any more than they granted credit to her for hers.

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  Credit, Opponents, Sticks

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• One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

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  Thinking, Leader, Political

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• I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Play, Heaven

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• Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

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  War, Navy, United States

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• Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

  William A. Rusher

  New York, Fighting, Times Have Changed

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• Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.

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  People, Done, Operations

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• And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively.

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  Should Have, Sound, Use

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• This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum, something like a dollar a word. I don't say that for the column, but for articles that she would write and things like that. And she made lots of speeches.

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  Writing, Criticism, Dollars

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• Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

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  People, Attention, Social Activism

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• Hay que decir que [Eleanor y Franklin Roosevelt] fueron pioneros hasta cierto punto. No sabían que algunos de los proyectos de viviendas que estaban construyendo para los pobres se convertirían en fumaderos de crack, refugios de violadores y cosas por el estilo, como ha ocurrido desde entonces. Pero no siempre se puede prever el futuro. Estoy seguro de que sus intenciones eran las mejores.

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  Cracks, Franklin, Intention

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• Esa era una impresión general que uno tenía, que ella [Eleanor Roosevelt] siempre estaba revoloteando por el país y descendiendo en algún lugar en los Ozarks que ella decidía que estaba en desventaja, y anunciando que había que hacer algo. Y ella tenía una conciencia social muy activa, que creo que en general es su mérito, aunque tendía, como mucha gente pensaba, a ser exagerada hasta el punto de dar lugar a la idea de que ella consideraba al mundo entero como un vasto proyecto de tugurios.

  William A. Rusher

  Country, Thinking, Ozarks

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• These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don't know. But I don't think she was any great literary breakthrough.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Use, Cash

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• Well, I didn't read My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt very carefully. I was away during a lot of that, in the war and so on. She was not all that good a writer. She was a little bit on the banal side, and you know, what happened, and then this happened, and then that happened... But I will say this. She got very well paid for it.

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  War, Littles, Sides

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• Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.

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  Mother, Problem, Franklin

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.

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  Nice, Thinking, Media

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• Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.

  William A. Rusher

  Party, Rights, Allies

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• And he [Franklin Roosevelt] got the votes of every southern white voting state in the country and wouldn't have been elected president once, let alone four times, if he hadn't. Now, at the same time he acquired over the years a reputation for being sympathetic to blacks, and he got their votes, heaven knows.

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  País, Años, Blanco

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• I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.

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  Thinking, Rights, White

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• En términos de legado, no estoy seguro de ver un gran depósito histórico como resultado de su muerte. Aumentó el sentido de conciencia social en el New Deal en general. Su gran mérito es haber estado desde el principio del lado de los negros en su lucha por los derechos civiles. Tenía tendencia a participar, lo que fácilmente se traducía en intromisión.

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  Fighting, Rights, Legacy

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• No tengo ni idea de por qué se calló sobre el tema. Tal vez se lo ordenaron. Me imagino que no era una postura muy popular en la Administración, ya que su propio marido había ordenado por decreto el internamiento. Tal vez sólo le dijeron: "Mira, ahora estamos en guerra. Apaga tu conciencia social".

  William A. Rusher

  Husband, War, Order

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• These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.

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  Knowing, People, Credit

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• And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt.

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  Husband, Thinking, Men

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• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

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  Pensar, Largo, Gente

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• She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.

  William A. Rusher

  Blow, Thinking, Important

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