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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump today claimed the Clintons "took large amounts of furniture out of the White House." That's right -- but they returned 28K after a series of stories in The Washington Post by the late George Lardner Jr., a brilliant reporter, exposed it. Here's how it played out....
First, Clinton reported that he had retained $190,027 worth of gifts that he had received. .... washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
George started investigating and revealed $28,000 of the gifts were intended for the White House, not for the Clintons personally, based on documents he reviewed and interviews he conducted with donors. ... washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
Boom! Within a week, George reported that Clintons had returned about $28,000 worth of furnishings he had identified to the National Park Service. (He also reported they had started shipping furniture to their new home a year before Clinton left office.) washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

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It's time for the Pinocchios of the Year! Trump's continuing 2020 election lies and falsehoods about the Jan. 6 attack top the list.....washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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Nov 8, 2021
This is detailed at length in Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on Robert Moses, "The Power Broker." See especially pages 318-319: "He began to limit access by buses; he instructed Shapiro to build the bridges across his new parkways low -- too low for buses to pass."...
..."Bus trips therefore had to be made on local roads, making the trips discouraging long and arduous. For Negroes, who he considered inherently 'dirty,' there were further measures. Buses needed permits to enter state parks; buses chartered by Negro groups ...."
"...found it very difficult to obtain permits, especially to Moses's beloved Jones Beach; most were shunted off to parks many miles further on Long Island." There's much, much more. Easily one of the best nonfiction books ever written. amazon.com/Power-Broker-R…
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Jun 30, 2021
The new C-SPAN poll of presidential historians is out! Always interesting to see how reputations rise and fall. In two decades, Ike shot up from #9 to #5 and stays there. Obama moves into the top ten. ....
Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson has fallen from #6 to #13, and Polk had also dropped from #12 to #18. Bill Clinton had moved up from #21 in 2000 to #15 in 2017, but now slips back to #19. ....
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Jun 11, 2021
A few days ago I tweeted about the bravery of an aunt and uncle who saved two Jewish children during World War II. Not every heroic act in the war had a happy ending. My father and aunt’s cousin, Johan Herman “Jan” Kessler, a son of my great-Uncle, was in the Dutch resistance….
He was carrying documents when caught by the Germans. This is an account of his torture and death at the hands of the Nazis, from Jan Braakman’s “The War in the Corner” (2010). It’s difficult to read… Image
Jan stayed silent, refusing to give up information. After one beating, he could barely stand. In the middle of the night, his cellmate realized he had no pulse and his body was cold. The Germans dragged the body away….
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Jun 9, 2021
My Tante (Aunt) Bep, my father’s sister, passed away in 2015 at 97, having lived a remarkable life. Newly married when Holland was occupied by the Nazis in World War II, she and my Uncle Bob decided in 1942 to hide two Jewish children from transport to the Nazi death camps...
She wrote a short history for family members. There was a constant threat of exposure. The German once came to the house to round up young men for the factories in Germany…
My father, 16, narrowly escaped by leaping out of a second floor window. That also distracted the German soldiers from discovering the children, who were brother and sister…
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