He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him. -Harold L. Ickes

 

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him.


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This is a very, very powerful showing for Howard Dean. There's no question about it.

Harold L. Ickes

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That great, overgrown lummox of a Colonel McCormick, mediocre in ability, less than average in brains and a damn physical coward in spite of his size, sitting in the tower of the Tribune building with his guards protecting him while he squirts sewage at men whom he happens to dislike.

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If Giuliani's in, he's in. If somebody else is in, he's in. But the key factors are the issues she's been prosecuting, and that's what you're going to hear tonight and that's what you're going to hear between now and November.

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This is coming from Mr. Altman's diary. I don't remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn't want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

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