If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for unqualified politicians, it couldn't have been a success.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
Experience helped Richard Nixon, but it didn't save him, and it certainly wasn't a blanket endorsement. He blundered terribly in dealing with Vietnam.
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.