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| f1ca75a | And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down. "Who do you have in there?" said Joe Scarborough in a frantic call. "Who's the person you trust? Jared? Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself." | Michael Wolff | ||
| ac41c4d | It was an operatic unraveling. So mortifying was this development that when Reince Priebus, the RNC head, was called to New York from Washington for an emergency meeting at Trump Tower, he couldn't bring himself to leave Penn Station. It took two hours for the Trump team to coax him across town. "Bro," said a desperate Bannon, cajoling Priebus on the phone, "I may never see you again after today, but you gotta come to this building and you .. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 733787f | Trump was not a politician who could parse factions of support and opprobrium; he was a salesman who needed to make a sale. "I won. I am the winner. I am not the loser," he repeated, incredulously, like a mantra." | Michael Wolff | ||
| e4bbf94 | Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended up, absent any star power, with Trump himself taking the stage as the featured act, angrily insisting to aides that he could outdraw any star. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 57fa7df | Trump had no real relationship with either father or daughter. He'd had only a few conversations with Bob Mercer, who mostly talked in monosyllables; Rebekah Mercer's entire history with Trump consisted of a selfie taken with him at Trump Tower. But when the Mercers presented their plan to take over the campaign and install their lieutenants, Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, Trump didn't resist. He only expressed vast incomprehension abou.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 789fd8b | While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along with them, including a theory he discussed with friends about how the more years between an older man and a younger woman, the less the younger woman took an older man's cheating personally. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5f4bd67 | Bannon didn't promote internal debate, provide policy rationale, or deliver PowerPoint presentations; instead, he was the equivalent of Trump's personal talk radio. Trump could turn him on at any moment, and it pleased him that Bannon's pronouncements and views would consistently be fully formed and ever available, a bracing, unified-field narrative | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4c3b077 | One particularly profitable transaction with the president was to bring him new, ever harsher criticism of his chief strategist, or reports of other people criticizing him. It was important to know not to say anything positive to Trump about Bannon. Even faint praise before the "but"--"Steve is obviously smart, but..."--could produce a scowl and pout if you didn't hurry to the "but." (Then again, saying anyone was "smart" invariably incurre.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 161cd31 | But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone. The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox's angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world. The joke was on somebody--and Ailes thought it might be on him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5d945ea | Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian--after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a declasse thing to do. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b6db096 | In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: "It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected--and quite an opportunity for your enemies." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 6a1c0fd | military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f01e711 | less a person than a collection of terrible traits. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 0674ca8 | The fabulous, incomprehensible irony that the Trump family had, despite the media's distaste, despite everything the media knows and understands and has said about them, risen to a level not only of ultimate consequence but even of immortality is beyond worst-case nightmare and into cosmic-joke territory. In this infuriating circumstance, Trump and his son-in-law were united, always aware and yet never quite understanding why they should be.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| ab55cc3 | you don't know what he hears because he just talks. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8addca6 | He wasn't serving up these insults for effect--well, not entirely. And his behavior wasn't carefully calculated; it was tit for tat, and he likely would have said what he'd said even if no one was left standing with him. (This very lack of calculation, this inability to be political, was part of his political charm.) It was just his good luck that the Trumpian 35 percent--that standing percentage of people who, according to most polls, seem.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 74253a6 | Bannon's presence on the council was just as much driven by the need to babysit the impetuous Flynn, prone to antagonizing almost everyone else in the national security community. (Flynn was "a colonel in a general's uniform," | Michael Wolff | ||
| d1d9aa7 | By Sunday evening, a feeling perhaps most reminiscent of election night 2016, desolate and confounded, spread through the mainstream media, the liberal establishment, and among all those who were confident that they had surrounded Donald Trump and left him nowhere to run. This was--and there could hardly be any better illustration--defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. | Michael Wolff | ||
| c578fdf | He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 49b0d26 | Ludendorff and Hindenburg explained to the Kaiser that the problem was not only the German soldiers' will and ability to fight, but also President Wilson's deep reluctance to negotiate in any way with the Kaiser himself or his military chiefs. Grasping not only the nettle of military defeat, but also that of political democratisation, the Kaiser signed a proclamation establishing a Parliamentary regime. In the space of a single day, Germany.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| da43ba4 | on November 6: in the rapidity and confusion of the advance, Douglas MacArthur, commanding an infantry brigade, was taken prisoner by his own side. Thinking he was a German officer, vigilant American sentries brought him in at pistol point. The mistake was quickly discovered, once MacArthur had taken off his unusual floppy hat and long scarf. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 50740ee | the slave labour system, already applied to Jews, was extended to Poles, just as it already applied to Czechs. 'A hundred thousand Czech workmen', Churchill told a public audience in Manchester on January 27, 'had been led off into slavery to be toiled to death in Germany.' But what was happening to the Czechs, Churchill added, 'pales in comparison with the atrocities which, as I speak here this afternoon, are being perpetrated upon the Pol.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| ed6a898 | On June 3, Britain, France and Italy announced their full support for Polish, Czech and Yugoslav statehood. On the following day, encouraged to do so by the British, Dr Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist leader, met the Emir Feisal, the leader of the Arab Revolt, near the port of Akaba, and worked out with him what seemed to be a satisfactory Arab support for a Jewish National Home in Palestine. A senior British general noted after the meeting tha.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 4e7ba60 | in towns and villages throughout the Ukraine, several thousand Jews were being murdered by anti-Bolshevik Whites, whose historic anti-Semitism, combining with a new hatred of the noted Jewish presence among the Bolshevik leadership, renewed the violent pogroms of a decade and a half earlier. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| cc578df | It was five months since Haig had told the British War Council: 'The machine gun is a much over-rated weapon and two per battalion is more than sufficient.' He was once again being proved terribly wrong. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 688f8c1 | Of the 850,000 Indian soldiers who left the subcontinent during the First World War, 49,000 were killed in action. India also made her contribution to the material aspects of the Allied struggle, including the manufacture of 555 million bullets and more than a million shells. Over 55,000 Indians served in the Indian Labour Corps, as butchers, bakers, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors and washermen. Many did menial work within range of the ene.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 738c9fa | Prior to Flew, major apologies for atheism were those of Enlightenment thinkers (David Hume, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Nietzsche). Major philosophers of Flew's generation who were atheists: W. V. O. Quine and Gilbert Ryle. But none took the step of developing book-length arguments to support their personal beliefs. In later years, atheist philosophers who critically examined and rejected the traditional arguments .. | atheism theism there-is-a-god | Antony Flew | |
| f7e996e | If the war was to be over by Christmas, as many believed, or at the latest by Easter 1915, tens of thousands of soldiers might be killed or wounded before the guns fell silent. Every army believed that it could crush its opponents within a few months. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 1493e66 | For the first time since 1815, Russia was denied control of the Polish capital. It was a signal triumph for the Central Powers. The Germans now set their long-term sights on Finland, Russia's province since the Swedes had been driven out in 1808. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| f90f6b1 | His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened and most weak; when his own courage, determination and belief in democracy became at one with the nation. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| a382e45 | Even if the tutoring was only for one hour a day, he told his mother, 'I shall feel that I have got to be back at a certain time and it would hang like a dark shadow over my pleasure'. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| b282258 | Indian Corps and the 4th Corps will push through the barrage of fire regardless of loss, using reserves if required. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 65895fa | He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die--quietly and undramatically, | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 5e2d24a | the Germans were 'picking out the revolutionists and Liberals from the many Russian prisoners of war, furnishing them with money and false passports and papers, and sending them back to Russia to stir up a revolution | Martin Gilbert | ||
| f1aeb40 | Hitler's entourage quickly learned what he had in mind. On September 9 Colonel Eduard Wagner discussed the future of Poland with Hitler's Army Chief of Staff, General Halder. 'It is the Fuhrer's and Goering's intention', Wagner wrote in his diary, 'to destroy and exterminate the Polish nation. More than that cannot even be hinted at in writing. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 0922fb4 | Britain and France, honoring their pledge to Poland made earlier in the year, declared war on Germany on September 3. The war lasted nearly six years, and by the time it was over, much of the civilized world lay in ruins, something more than thirty million people had been killed, great empires had been destroyed, and weapons of new and hitherto unimagined potential had been unleashed upon the world. Such a result could not have stemmed from.. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| 8c23ebd | In 1932, a commission of the League of Nations produced a preparatory draft for a general scheme of disarmament. The proposal, however, left untouched all previous treaties that dealt with arms limitations. Among these, the French insisted on including the Versailles treaty, with its provisions about German strengths. This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the conv.. | James L. Stokesbury | ||
| ed11b69 | There is no liberty save wisdom and self-control. | H.G. Wells | ||
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| c4dc227 | It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 2a3cd4e | asked Kemp. "Three or four hours--the cat. The bones and sinews and the fat were the last to go, and the tips of the coloured hairs. And, as I say, the back part of the eye, tough, iridescent" | H.G. Wells | ||
| 53188e1 | He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard. | H.G. Wells |