Tail-Gunner in the Pilot's Seat
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Yeah, this and yours are making me give up my nascent President Henry Ford TL.
No! You do NOT get to tease us with that concept and not do it!
I'll start it as soon as I wrap up my current, slightly more mundane project, I promise.
P.S.: Sorry for hijacking the thread, wolfpaw.
Wolfpaw
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I'll start it as soon as I wrap up my current, slightly more mundane project, I promise.
P.S.: Sorry for hijacking the thread, wolfpaw.
Haha, np. It gets pretty dull around here inbetween posts...
Wolfpaw
Banned
That was a damn shame about what happened to them kids down in Puerto Rico. Fact of the matter was, though, that most people didn’t know how to feel about the whole thing. I mean, a bunch of us thought the whole thing stank to high heaven. But there were a lot of folks who thought, well…they thought the Ricans had it coming. I mean, they’d just shot a bunch of Congressmen, after all. And half the papers in the country calling them nothing but a bunch of pinko spics didn’t help.
But the Ol’ Joe got his point across, that’s for sure. After the San Juan Shootings Puerto Rico clammed up like it was nobody’s business. Course, Hoover and his boys probably had something to do with that. I guess the Marines weren’t just whistling "Dixie" when they said they had things under control. At least then they weren’t.
The Beltway had about a month of calm after the Puerto Rico business. Well, maybe calm isn’t the right word for it. Jenner was back in charge of the PSI and was investigating every old Truman employee he could get his hands on, especially Army folk. I tell ya, those hearings were nasty even then. They were all us in Washington could talk about before the Court dropped that bombshell on us mid-May.
—James “Jim” McEvoy, quoted in Better Dead than Red: An American Memoir, by Studs Terkel
But the Ol’ Joe got his point across, that’s for sure. After the San Juan Shootings Puerto Rico clammed up like it was nobody’s business. Course, Hoover and his boys probably had something to do with that. I guess the Marines weren’t just whistling "Dixie" when they said they had things under control. At least then they weren’t.
The Beltway had about a month of calm after the Puerto Rico business. Well, maybe calm isn’t the right word for it. Jenner was back in charge of the PSI and was investigating every old Truman employee he could get his hands on, especially Army folk. I tell ya, those hearings were nasty even then. They were all us in Washington could talk about before the Court dropped that bombshell on us mid-May.
—James “Jim” McEvoy, quoted in Better Dead than Red: An American Memoir, by Studs Terkel
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I'm looking forward to how you handle the segregation issue. Also, what happened to my personal favorite, Mr. Roy Cohn?
Wolfpaw
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Why, the delightful Mr. Cohn is currently serving as Assistant to the President after turning down the spot of Solicitor General, though he has been talking about making his title a bit more grander; something along the lines of "White House Chief of Staff"...
Why, the delightful Mr. Cohn is currently serving as Assistant to the President after turning down the spot of Solicitor General, though he has been talking about making his title a bit more grander; something along the lines of "White House Chief of Staff"...
Sounds familiar....
Enjoying this so far, and looking forward to where it's going in the future.
Wolfpaw
Banned
June 9, 1954
What a scoop I got today! I caught that betty what works in the West Wing right when she was leaving, asked her if she'd like to grab a bite at Sullivan's tonight. I gave the twist a flash of my pearly whites and she was butter.
She came in stacked like Sally and dressed to the nines. She played her cards pretty close to the vest, but a few Tom Collins and that famous Schexnayder charm won her over in the end. I know they say never mix business with pleasure, but hey, I'm not made out of stone, am I?
Word around the White House is that Cohn and MacArthur don't exactly see eye-to-eye on this investigating the Army business. Cohn says the Army's crawling with pinkos and Reds and fairies (like that little runt's one to talk!).
MacArthur says different. Says it's an insult to him and the military, that Jenner and the PSI don't got a clue as to what they're going on about.
So the General goes in to lodge a formal complaint with the Tail-Gunner. Of course Cohn's in the room during. Anyways, the two of them get into a tussle. Doug MacArthur vs. Roy Cohn; now there's a fight I'd pay to see! Anyways, MacArthur ends up asking Cohn whether he don't got no decency left, carrying on like he is. For once, it seems that yappy Hymie didn't have a response.
I guess that was enough to change McCarthy's mind about things. So long as this twist isn't feeding me a line for a free meal and some hooch, we can expect to see the Army Investigations stop real soon. And guess who's going to be first in line reporting it?
—Excerpt from the diary of Mickey Schexnayder,AP
What a scoop I got today! I caught that betty what works in the West Wing right when she was leaving, asked her if she'd like to grab a bite at Sullivan's tonight. I gave the twist a flash of my pearly whites and she was butter.
She came in stacked like Sally and dressed to the nines. She played her cards pretty close to the vest, but a few Tom Collins and that famous Schexnayder charm won her over in the end. I know they say never mix business with pleasure, but hey, I'm not made out of stone, am I?
Word around the White House is that Cohn and MacArthur don't exactly see eye-to-eye on this investigating the Army business. Cohn says the Army's crawling with pinkos and Reds and fairies (like that little runt's one to talk!).
MacArthur says different. Says it's an insult to him and the military, that Jenner and the PSI don't got a clue as to what they're going on about.
So the General goes in to lodge a formal complaint with the Tail-Gunner. Of course Cohn's in the room during. Anyways, the two of them get into a tussle. Doug MacArthur vs. Roy Cohn; now there's a fight I'd pay to see! Anyways, MacArthur ends up asking Cohn whether he don't got no decency left, carrying on like he is. For once, it seems that yappy Hymie didn't have a response.
I guess that was enough to change McCarthy's mind about things. So long as this twist isn't feeding me a line for a free meal and some hooch, we can expect to see the Army Investigations stop real soon. And guess who's going to be first in line reporting it?
—Excerpt from the diary of Mickey Schexnayder,AP
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Hey, good to say MacArthur using his formidable personality to do something noble.