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  JAMES BUCHANAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES BUCHANAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He felt that the institution was morally wrong, but held that Congress could not interfere with it in the states in which it existed, and ought not to hinder the natural tendency toward territorial expansion through a fear that the evil would spread.
His high moral character, the breadth of his legal knowledge, and his experience as congressman, cabinet member and diplomat, would have made Buchanan an excellent president in ordinary times; but he lacked the soundness of judgment, the self-reliance and the moral courage needed to face a crisis.
See George Ticknor Curtis, The Life of James Buchanan (2 vols., New York, 1883), the standard biography; Curtis, however, was a close personal and political friend, and his work is too eulogistic.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUCHANAN_JAMES.htm   (1073 words)

  
 George Buchanan (diplomat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir George Buchanan was born in Copenhagen in 1854.
In 1910 Buchanan was appointed as the British Ambassador in Russia.
Buchanan was the ambassador at the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and he developed close relations with the liberal Provisional Government that transpired after the February Revolution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Buchanan_(diplomat)   (193 words)

  
 The White House Historical Association > Research
Buchanan’s pleas for compromise between North and South fell on deaf ears, and his position that slavery was morally wrong but constitutionally permissible-states had the right to choose it-pleased neither side.
Buchanan acted swiftly on Henry’s recommendation that escorts chosen for the three ambassadors should be "persons of polished manners, of good address and high social and official rank." With the agreement of the Navy, Buchanan chose three men who seemed to fill the bill.
Buchanan then produced a personal gift to all the members of the mission: three gold medals for the ambassadors, five silver ones for their deputies, and copper ones for everybody else.
www.whitehousehistory.org /08/subs/08_b12.html   (8188 words)

  
 Pennsylvania State Parks - Buchanan's Birthplace - PA DCNR
Buchanan graduated from nearby Dickinson College in Carlisle and later became a lawyer in the state capital of Lancaster at the young age of 21.
Buchanan held Madison's views of how the Constitution was supposed to work, not as a logical document or as a consolidating document, but as a human document with interpretation that depended upon current wisdom to succeed.
Buchanan wrote Harriet in 1843 and expressed his wish that she become accomplished and educated, but more importantly, learn the proper government of the heart and temper.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /stateparks/parks/buchanansbirthplace.aspx   (3062 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: James I of England
Historian and poet George Buchanan was responsible for James' education.
George Villiers (August 28, 1592 - August 23, 1628) was the 1st Duke of Buckingham of the second creation (1623) of that title and a favourite of King James I of England and then of Charles I. He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, the son of the minor noble Sir George...
George III (George William Frederick) (June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from October 25, 1760 until January 1, 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/James-I-of-England   (10206 words)

  
 Bush, George W. (Harpers.org)
Governor George W. Bush agreed to pardon death-row inmate Roy Criner after new DNA tests proved that he was innocent; Ricky Nolan McGinn, a Texas inmate who was convicted of raping and murdering his twelve-year-old stepdaughter, failed his DNA test after receiving a stay of execution and will return to death row.
Governor George W. Bush admitted that he was convicted in 1976 for drunk driving; he had previously told a reporter that he had not been arrested after 1968.
President George W. Bush gave the 300th commencement address at Yale University, received an honorary degree, and reassured other C students that their lives were not yet wasted.
www.harpers.org /GeorgeWBush.html   (4741 words)

  
 1992 Republican National Convention Speech - by Pat Buchanan - Articles, Essays and Speeches - T H E   I ...
The presidency is also America's bully pulpit, what Mr Truman called, "preeminently a place of moral leadership." George Bush is a defender of right-to-life, and lifelong champion of the Judeo-Christian values and beliefs upon which this nation was built.
George Bush was 17 when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
My friends, this campaign is about philosophy, and it is about character; and George Bush wins on both counts--going away; and it is time all of us came home and stood beside him.
www.buchanan.org /pa-92-0817-rnc.html   (1950 words)

  
 George
George, Duke of Clarence was the third son of Richard, Duke of York, and the brother of King Edward IV of England.
George was born on October 21, 1449 in Dublin, at a time when his father, having assumed the name Plantagenet to emphasize his descent from King Henry II of England, was beginning to challenge King Henry VI of England for the crown.
On the other hand, the tale of George and the Dragon is widely considered to share a common theme with the ancient myth of Princess Andromeda of Ethiopia and her savior and later husband Perseus, slayer of the gorgon Medusa and later founder of Mycenae.
www.websters-dictionary-online.org /definition/english/ge/george.html   (11771 words)

  
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Buchanan's Birthplace State Park Buchanan's Birthplace State Park is an 18.5-acre park.
Lane was widely recognized among diplomatic circles for her charm and wit.
She used the influence gained from living with her uncle to restore James Buchanan's political reputation after his death, advance medical research and treatment of children, back educational efforts for children, and help foster government sponsorship of the arts.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /stateparks/Parks/printables/buchanansbirthplacetxt.txt   (3108 words)

  
 GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
George Buchanan was yet another of those zealous Protestant reformers in the 16th century who did so much to shape the subsequent history of Scotland.
Buchanan received international fame as a Latinist, but is best remembered for his De Jure Regni Apud Scotos, written to justify the deposition of Mary, which became a kind of handbook for revolutionaries in an age where the deposition of a legitimate ruler or regicide were still not exactly popular or regular events.
From Montrose, Forfarshire, Burns served as a diplomat in India, during which time he explored the Indus River as far as Lahore; then journeyed across Afghanistan, over the massive mountain range known as the Hindu Kush, through Russian Turkistan as far as Bukhara, and into many cities in what was then Persia.
www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/b3.html   (2930 words)

  
 George Buchanan
George Buchanan was born in Copenhagen in 1854.
(2) George Buchanan met Nicholas II at the Imperial Palace on 12th January, 1917.
Guchkov's resignation precipitated matters, and Lvov, Kerensky and Tershchenko came to the conclusion that, as the Soviet was too powerful a factor to be either suppressed or disregarded, the only way of putting an end to the anomaly of a dual Government was to form a Coalition.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSbuchanan.htm   (1478 words)

  
 New Democrats: Hamas and Hezbollah - by Pat Buchanan
Reagan sent aides to Tehran, with Bible and cake, to arrange the release of U.S. hostages held by the terrorist accomplices of Iran in Beirut.
George W. Bush negotiated a deal with Ghadafi, who engineered the Lockerbie massacre of Pan Am 103.
Patrick J. Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party’s candidate in 2000.
www.antiwar.com /pat?articleid=5204   (910 words)

  
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George Gilmer was a young Scottish physician who had emigrated to Williamsburg, and married there in 1732.
George was a partner in the firm of Gibson and Jefferson of Richmond, Virginia, who handled Jefferson's financial affairs.
George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818, born near Charlottsesville, was responsible for the conquest of the Northwest during the Revolution.
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 LEON TROTSKY: 1922 -- Between Red and White -- Chapter 10 -- “Public opinion”, Social Democracy, Communism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On November 13th, 1914, Sir George Buchanan (according to PalŽologue) declared to Sazonov: “The government of his Britannic Majesty has recognized that the question of the Straits and Constantinople must be settled according to Russian aspirations.
Sir George Buchanan was as worthy a representative of the British democracy as PalŽologue of the French.
Not in the sense of course, that Lloyd George derives the real inspiration for his politics from religion, or that the hatred of Churchill for Soviet Russia is due to his burning desire to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, or that the Notes of Lord Curzon are copied directly from the Sermon on the Mount.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1922-rw/ch10.htm   (3662 words)

  
 www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The libel verdict won by Saddam-supporter George Galloway does not depend on the notion that Galloway's ties to Saddam were disproven.
Buchanan likes nothing more than conflict, and a good civilizational conflict between Christian and Muslim theocrats would doubtless thrill him.
The real war, however, is between liberty and theocrats of all kinds, between limited government and religious statism, between the American guarantee of freedom from government-imposed religion and the radical Muslim insistence of a fusion beween church and state.
www.andrewsullivan.com /index.php?dish_inc=archives/2004_11_28_dish_archive.html   (6338 words)

  
 ORDERING THE URBAN CANADIAN LAW OFFICE AND ITS ENTREPRENEURIAL HINTERLAND, 1825 TO 1875   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Carlo Vidua Buchanan (1825-1901) of Monk and Buchanan articled first with admiralty specialist Henry Black in Quebec City, secondly with Côme-Séraphin Cherrier and Antoine-Aimé Dorion in Montreal, and finally with Rose and Monk in the same city.
Huntington and Buchanan's Townships office was devoted to serving Huntington's investments in local enterprises, like the Advertiser and Eastern Townships Sentinel newspaper, Bolton Copper Mines (formally known as Huntington Mining Company), the Stanstead, Shefford and Chambly Railroad, and the Mutual Life Association.
Alexander Buchanan, for example, piloted an early commission that commenced the province-wide disassembly of seigniorial land tenure, and he spearheaded the first official consolidation of Quebec statutes in the 1840s.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utlj/482/482_baker.html   (16595 words)

  
 R.H. Bruce Lockhart. British Agent. Book Three: War and Peace.
To Sir George himself she was everything that a wife should be, watching over his health with tireless zeal, running his house like clockwork and never failing in that passion for punctuality which in the Ambassador amounted almost to a mania.
As a chief Sir George Buchanan was delightful---a man in whom all thought of self was submerged in the highest conception of duty.
There was one gala dinner given by Sir George Buchanan to Chelnokoff and a small deputation of the Moscow Duma---a return for the hospitality lavished on the Ambassador during his Moscow visit.
www.gwpda.org /wwi-www/BritAgent/BA03.htm   (22562 words)

  
 The Bonassus
First, the LA Times is correct in reporting that Buchanan won the party's nomination in 2000, and that Perot founded the party.
While Buchanan won the fight, the party split into three offshoots, the American Reform Party (the original anti-Perot wing of the party), the Reform Party USA (which has now endorsed Nader, just as it did in 2000), and the Buchananite America First Party.
Diplomats from EU trade partners welcomed the EU's offer but said it would have only a limited impact because it was simply a public announcement of something the bloc had long ago been signaling in private.
geffen.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_geffen_archive.html   (13175 words)

  
 NEW DEMOCRATS- HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George W. Bush negotiated a deal with Khadafi, who engineered the Lockerbie massacre of Pan Am 103.
In return for Libyan payments to the families of the victims and Khadafi renouncing his weapons of mass destruction, we lifted sanctions.
To find out more about Patrick J. Buchanan, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.
www.theconservativevoice.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=3956   (794 words)

  
 American Politics Journal -- Not only the election...
The Pat Buchanan admission that he obviously picked up a lot of votes that should have gone to Gore.
I suggested that Gore wanted to whisper in George's ear that the Democrats 'had the goods' on him - and unless he allowed the recounts to go ahead - well, who wants to be elected president because the other contender was disqualified for nefarious election deeds...?
Having quoted that, you'd probably have to agree the Israeli diplomat was a little out of line picking on CNN.
www.americanpolitics.com /20001117Gelken.html   (741 words)

  
 William Martin. Statesmen of the War in Retrospect. 1928. The Three Emperors.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The ministers, at the mercy of court cabals, the intrigues of their colleagues, and the caprices of the Emperor, had not even the security of parliamentary ministers who depend on public opinion.
At first attempts are made to decide them by diplomatic measures; these fail, and war is the next resource; then upon the realization that war decides nothing, there is a return to diplomacy." This thought might well be the epigraph on the reign of Francis-Joseph.
His misfortune lay in the fact that he was the autocrat of All the Russias, feeble heir to a mighty empire, the holder of colossal power, and in exceptionally difficult circumstances.
www.ku.edu /carrie/texts/world_war_I/Statesmen/Martin1.htm   (10447 words)

  
 Index Ch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
George Bush's nomination of John Tower as defense secretary, and the next day, Bush nominated the respected Cheney.
He entered the imperial diplomatic service but became involved in the Russian revolutionary movement, and in 1904 resigned his post, renounced title to his estates, and went to Berlin, where he joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party (1905).
He then resumed his diplomatic career, participating in the final stage of negotiating the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany and subsequently becoming people's commissar for foreign affairs (May 1918).
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 RonNew
They "may be already regarded as a political party." Drayton argues what became the standard southern justifications for slavery: the institution was forced upon the colonies by England, no practical means to abolish it exists, Negroes are unsuited to govern themselves, ending utopian agitation is necessary to preserve the Union and prevent a slave revolt.
Some of the authors included are: George Barr McCutcheon; George Washington Cable; Carl Van Doren; Irving Bac heller, John Erskine; Albert Payson Tenhune; Henry Van Dyke; George Wharton Edwards; Charles Stoddard; Etc. etc.
In this capacity he issued the Balfour Declaration (1917), pledging Br itish support to the Zionist hope for a Jewish national home in Palestine, with the proviso that the rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine would be respected.
www.sellbooks.net /Inventory.html   (12698 words)

  
 Filibustering with William Walker
But he was not allowed to proceed far, for Commodore Pauling of the United States squadron in the Caribbean, hearing of the expedition, landed in Nicaragua, forced him to surrender, and brought him back to the United States.
President Buchanan even went so far, in his presidential message, as to condemn Walker as a filibuster.
He did not understand human nature, and above all he was neither a statesman nor a diplomat.
www.sfmuseum.org /hist1/walker.html   (2476 words)

  
 No More Apples
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their enablers are a poison that may take decades to eradicate from our brain food supply.
Everything President George W. Bush knows, he learned here, as the product of a system rigged to assure the political progeny needed to perpetuate itself with minimum interference from the nuisances of liberal democracy.
The same cannot be said for the Republican-controlled Congress, which has asked for little to no accountability by George W. Bush and has blocked the opposition party from their own examinations.
nomoreapples.blogspot.com   (9510 words)

  
 Pollardites in the Pentagon? - by Pat Buchanan
CIA's George Tenet would resign, Clinton told Netanyahu, if he pardoned Pollard.
Washington today is rife with reports the FBI has been investigating whether or not a nest of Pollardites inside the Pentagon has been funneling secrets, through the Israeli lobby AIPAC, to the Reno Road embassy and on to Sharon.
AIPAC had been under FBI surveillance for over two years as a probable conduit to Israel of the fruits of espionage against the United States.
www.antiwar.com /pat?articleid=3517   (913 words)

  
 Definition of 1582 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Jakub Zadzik, Polish nobleman and diplomat (died 1642)
September 28 - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (born 1506)
October 15 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Carmelite nun and poet (born 1515)
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/1582   (462 words)

  
 Lost Splendor - Felix Yussupov - Chapter XX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was agreed that the former would ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs, von Jagow, to place a special train at the disposal of the Russian Ambassador, for members of the embassy and any of his compatriots who wished to leave the country.
As for the British Ambassador, Sir George Buchanan, his dealings with radical elements caused him to be accused by many Russians of secretly working for the Revolution.
Some of the people closest to the Tsar and Tsarina attempted to open their eyes to the fact that Rasputin's influence was a danger to Russia and to the dynasty.
www.alexanderpalace.org /lostsplendor/xx.html   (4628 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Colin Powell's Former Chief Of Staff Calls John Bolton An "Abysmal" Pick To Be UN Ambassador
This will be the first Bush diplomatic nominee where all eight Democrats have actually voted in unison against.
And I did it after things were finished, went down to Florida and talked to a lot of people about why that process of the recount -- which is really a very, very simple process, they happen, you know, on a regular basis in voting districts all over the country -- blew up.
But the other Senators, Lisa Murkowski, George Voinovich, Lamar Alexander, these are people who haven't said much at all, and privately, they're very, very concerned with some of the things they have heard.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1348223   (3309 words)

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