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Quezon gave Douglas MacArthur half a million dollars from the Philippine treasury—a reward for services rendered. MacArthur, as an officer in the U.S. military, was forbidden to accept it, but he did anyway. Quezon and MacArthur set off for Australia, with Romulo trailing after them.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
People v. Presley
The court affirms the order to detain defendant Joshua A. Presley, rejecting his appeal against denial of pretrial release under the Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act.
ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.netPresident Wilson named one of his brightest generals to lead the incursion into Mexico: John J. Pershing. In a controversial move a decade earlier, Theodore Roosevelt had promoted Black Jack Pershing, over 762 superior officers, directly from captain to brigadier general. For the Mexican operation, Pershing selected several of the Army’s most promi
... See moreSteven Rabalais • General Fox Conner: Pershing's Chief of Operations and Eisenhower's Mentor (The Generals Book 3)
Lyndon was the guy to see if you wanted to get a bill off the Calendar, Lyndon was the guy to see if you were having trouble getting it passed in the House, Lyndon was the guy to see for campaign funds. There wasn’t anything Lyndon was using these facts for as yet. But in ways not yet visible, power was starting to accumulate around him—ready to be
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Mann’s attacks shattered against this silent granite image. That year, Stevenson’s eight opponents received a total of 15 percent of the vote. Stevenson received 85 percent, smashing the record he had set two years before. To this day, no gubernatorial candidate in the history of Texas has won nearly so high a percentage in a contested Democratic p
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
and now his name had been brayed out in public – not even in the comparative privacy of the Board, but in a far more miscellaneous gathering – with the question openly directed at the chief of naval intelligence. It was unqualifiable. To rely on the discretion of these sailors whose only notion of dealing with an enemy as cunning as Bonaparte was t
... See morePatrick O'Brian • HMS Surprise
Johnson’s voting record—a record twenty years long, dating back to his arrival in the House of Representatives in 1937 and continuing up to that very day—was consistent with the accent and the word. During those twenty years, he had never supported civil rights legislation—any civil rights legislation.
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
THIS BOOK is in part the story of that man, Lyndon Baines Johnson. He is not yet the thirty-sixth President of the United States, but a senator—at the beginning of the book, in 1949, the newly elected junior senator from Texas; then the Democratic Party’s Assistant Leader, then its Leader, and finally, in 1955, when the Democrats became the majorit
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
People v. Battle
The appellate court affirmed the trial court's decision to detain Asia Battle before her trial for robbery, vehicular hijacking, and battery due to being a threat to the complainant's safety.
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