Neill Perry
Sunbeam teacher; Amazon Safety Ambassador
- "Where republican rule over whites required free speech and the consent to be governed, dominion over blacks invited dictatorial compulsions and the coercion of the nonconsenting." William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Vol II, p.9
- it's finally going to happen. Next year the Super Bowl will be on Valentine's Day.
- James K. Polk "lacked charisma, couldn't tell a joke to save his life, and was an uninspired public speaker." Amy S. Greenberg, A Wicked War, p. 28
- "Polk was 'conspicuous for nothing but his blind, implicit and unhesitating submissiveness' to Andrew Jackson;" p.41
- Polk got elected for being boring because Clay had personal baggage; 1846 campaign sounds like if Al Gore defeated Bill Clinton
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View full thread"The public was so anxious for news from Mexico that some unscrupulous newsboys and the papers themselves manufactured stories to get people to buy papers." p.123
- "precision in delivery does not equate to precision in targeting." warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...
- "Every mistake he made, he said, came from speaking before he gave himself the chance to step back, reflect and revisit the situation after a “couple of good nights’ sleep” and a fresh perspective." www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...
