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If the president were to oust Rex as secretary
Posted on: October 9, 2017 at 10:00:39 CT
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Corker would lead the hearings on Mr. Trump’s nominee for the post.
Would history repeat itself...
"Attempting to forestall a buildup of American forces, Fulbright launched a high-profile series of widely televised public "educational" hearings in February 1966. [The] testimony prompted an angry President Johnson to order FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to investigate whether Fulbright was "either a communist agent or a dupe of the communists.”
Conducted in the Senate Caucus Room, the hearings reached their most dramatic phase when Secretary [of State, Dean] Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor arrived to lay out the administration's case. Fulbright shifted from his earlier role as a benign questioner of supportive witnesses to a grim prosecutor, his dark glasses set resolutely against the glare of television lights.
The February hearings did not immediately erode Senate support for Johnson's war policies. They did, however, begin a significant shift in public opinion."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/corker-trump/542385/
Would history repeat itself...
"Attempting to forestall a buildup of American forces, Fulbright launched a high-profile series of widely televised public "educational" hearings in February 1966. [The] testimony prompted an angry President Johnson to order FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to investigate whether Fulbright was "either a communist agent or a dupe of the communists.”
Conducted in the Senate Caucus Room, the hearings reached their most dramatic phase when Secretary [of State, Dean] Rusk and General Maxwell Taylor arrived to lay out the administration's case. Fulbright shifted from his earlier role as a benign questioner of supportive witnesses to a grim prosecutor, his dark glasses set resolutely against the glare of television lights.
The February hearings did not immediately erode Senate support for Johnson's war policies. They did, however, begin a significant shift in public opinion."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/corker-trump/542385/
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If the president were to oust Rex as secretary - catbirdseat MU - 10/9 10:00:39