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  Branch Davidians, Waco, and the FBI - John Danforth's Final Report
John Danforth's Final Report Concerning the 1993 Confrontation at the Mt. Carmel Complex of the Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas.
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John Danforth's Final Report to the Deputy Attorney General Concerning the 1993 Confrontation at the Mt. Carmel Complex, Waco, Texas, persuant to Order No. 2256-99 of the Attorney General.
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  Ambassador John C. Danforth, United States Representative to the United Nations, Biographical Sketch
While in the Senate, Danforth was active in numerous efforts important to the State of Missouri and to the nation including efforts to reign in the unbridled growth of entitlements, reduce the deficit, encourage long-term economic growth, improve education, reduce hunger and malnutrition throughout the world, and increase production of affordable housing.
Danforth was the first U.S. Senator from Missouri to chair a major legislative committee since World War I and the first Republican in the history of the state elected to three terms as U.S. Senator.
A fifth generation Missourian, Danforth was born on September 5, 1936 in St. Louis, and raised in nearby Clayton.
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  John Danforth
An heir to the Ralston Purina[?] fortune, John Danforth was born in 1936.
A political moderate who is respected by members of both parties, Danforth was once quoted as saying he joined the Republican party for "the same reason you sometimes choose which movie to see- the one with the shortest line".
Danforth is an Episcopal minister, and is married with five adult children.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Danforth.html   (158 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Bush Names John Danforth as New U.N. Ambassador
Former Republican Sen. John Danforth, the Missouri Republican who has served as U.S. peace envoy to war-torn Sudan since 2001, was nominate on Friday to replace John Negroponte as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Danforth, 68, went on to conduct an investigation into the FBI's role in the 1993 Waco disaster in which scores of men, women and children were killed at the compound of the Branch Davidian religious group in Texas.
Danforth's nomination for the U.N. ambassadorship comes as the Sudanese government and the country's southern rebels prepare for a final phase of talks to end Africa's longest running civil war.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/06/04/bush_names_john_danforth_as_new_un_ambassador_1086380957   (341 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.N. Ambassador John Danforth resigns - Dec 3, 2004
John Danforth, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will leave the post on the day President Bush is inaugurated for a second term.
Danforth, 68, said he plans to leave the United Nations on January 20, the day Bush will be inaugurated for a second term.
Danforth, a Republican, served three terms in the Senate before retiring in 1994 and returning to his law practice.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/02/danforth.resigns/index.html   (0 words)

  
 Danforth Criticizes Christian Sway in GOP
Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri and an Episcopal priest, met with students during a seminar and held a luncheon talk at the graduate school.
Danforth, considered a conservative on social issues, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976 and served three terms.
Danforth was sworn in as ambassador in July 2004 and resigned in January.
www.breitbart.com /news/2005/10/26/D8DG29585.html   (566 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: John Danforth's attack on Christians
Danforth, 70, an Episcopal priest, said politics today is too polarized and that the GOP spends too much time trying to appeal to the Christian right – which, in reality, is the party's base.
Danforth says he remains a loyal Republican but believes GOP leaders should speak out against the religious right and move toward the center – a location from which it lost election after election in the past.
Danforth has either ignorantly or purposefully misrepresented the truth and attempted to convince Missouri voters who trust him that this amendment is good for the state.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52742   (807 words)

  
 John C. Danforth - SourceWatch
Danforth is an ordained Episcopal minister, an heir to the Ralston-Purina pet food company fortune, and a "Pioneer" for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, meaning he pledged to raise at least $100,000 in "bundled" donations.
Danforth is a friend and mentor to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Danforth "serves on the corporate boards of Cerner Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company and General American Life Insurance Compnay," in addition to Time Warner and MetLife, Inc. [13] He chairs the $312.5 million Danforth Family Foundation[14] and sitting on the boards of several St Louis-area religious and community groups.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_C._Danforth   (893 words)

  
 A Review of John Danforth’s Faith and Politics
John 3:1) The political intrigues of the Pharisees indicate that the Gospels were written during the period accorded them by conservative scholars.
Danforth, though a Republican, a member of the so-called party of “family values,” has left the straight and narrow.
Danforth tells the reader that he believes in “a large God.” This god we discover “cannot be shrunken by political activists and stuffed into their own agendas.” We detect in this remark a sleight of hand.
www.metrovoice.net /2006/1206_stlweb/1206_articles/john_danforth_faith_and_politics.html   (2017 words)

  
 Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning News
Danforth's investigators that they faced arrest if they carried firearms into his courthouse and would be allowed access to the building only like that given to the public.
Danforth who had previously used offices in the courthouse have not returned since the judge told them he was ending his court's cooperation with Mr.
Danforth last September to review government actions in the standoff and determine why officials had so long denied that the FBI had used anything capable of sparking fires.
www.waco93.com /dallasmorningnews08_31_00.htm   (1464 words)

  
 John Danforth - Bad Choice for U.N. Ambassador
Danforth characterizes Thomas in a state of hysterical withdrawal, nearly catatonic, clenched in a fetal position, hyperventilating and sobbing convulsively.
Danforth asserts disingenuously, "Clarence did not want to be nominated to the Supreme Court," a claim belied by Thomas' own frequent statements to the contrary.
John Danforth is uniquely unqualified to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/4809   (1097 words)

  
 John Danforth Resigns as US Ambassador to UN - Pro-Life Replacement Sought
John Danforth, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned from his post and pro-life Americans and others around the world will be looking to President Bush to replace him with another principled, pro-life, pro-family ambassador.
Danforth, 68, said in his letter of resignation that he was going to be spending more time with his wife.
Danforth is a well-known advocate for the pro-life cause, maintaining a 100 percent pro-life voting record during his several years in politics.
www.lifesite.net /ldn/2004/dec/04120301.html   (452 words)

  
 John Danforth Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
The most prolific of the poets in the Danforth family, John Danforth was the son of Samuel and Mary Danforth and the elder brother of Samuel Danforth II.
Danforth experimented with poetry in many genres, exchanged manuscripts of verses with Edward Taylor and Samuel Sewall, and managed to have nearly every poem he wrote published, often appending them to appropriate sermons.
In all his lyrics, almanac verse, epigrams, anagrams, epitaphs, and verse epistles, Danforth worked, as he did in his elegies, to serve the community of poets, the community of the elect, and the community of Dorchester, where he died in 1730.
www.bookrags.com /biography/john-danforth-dlb   (285 words)

  
 U.N. envoy Danforth resigns - Politics - MSNBC.com
John Danforth had been mentioned as a successor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, but he lost out to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Danforth, who has been described as frustrated with the slow-moving U.N. bureaucracy, had recently told friends that he was running out of patience, especially with the Security Council, whose deliberations he considered difficult, Mitchell reported.
Danforth was sworn in as ambassador to the United Nations on July 1, succeeding Bush’s first ambassador, John Negroponte, who became ambassador to Iraq.
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 Backgrounder on the Danforth Report (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, May 16, 2002)
Former Sen. John Danforth was appointed by President George W. Bush as his special envoy for peace in Sudan on September 6, 2001.
In the context of Senator Danforth’s efforts, even before the ceasefire agreement was signed, the government allowed the delivery of international aid to the Nuba Mountains in late 2001 for the first time since the war came to the area in 1986.
In addition, the Danforth report states that U.S. AID and the State Department are making funds available to promote reconciliation between the Dinka (who have been raided for slaves) and the “marauding raiders” (the Baggara).
www.hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/danforth-bck0515.htm   (1730 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Former Sen. John Danforth to pen book on religion and politics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Danforth, who was once a senator and ambassador to the United Nations, will now be a published author too.
Danforth's Faith and Politics, to be published in fall 2006, "will explore the widening rift between left and right, conservative and liberal, believer and non-believer," Viking said Monday in a press release.
Danforth, a former ambassador to the United Nations, said last month that he believes the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the Republican Party and dividing the country.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-11-15-danforth-book-deal_x.htm   (270 words)

  
 Former Senator John Danforth Calls for U.S. Unity in a Time of Polarizing Rhetoric   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Danforth was born in 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Danforth chose not to run for a fourth term and retired from the Senate in 1995.
John Danforth addressing the press in 2004 when he was U.S. ambassador to the UN "I think that one of the lessons of the last few years is that the U.S. cannot do it efficiently alone," he says.
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 John Danforth: Honest, Independent, But Tough Enough? -- 09/15/1999
Danforth is remembered on Capitol Hill as a man of deep personal integrity; he was sometimes called "Saint Jack" by staffers and colleagues, in reference to both his strong ethical sense and his status as an ordained Episcopalian priest.
But Danforth's most memorable episode in the Senate came during the 1991 confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas, when Danforth, in the words of one observer, "went to the wall, through the wall, and beyond the wall" to secure the nomination of a man he had mentored in his days as Missouri's Attorney General.
Danforth was Thomas's most ardent defender in the Senate, as well as a personal friend who would pray with the beleaguered nominee and his wife during the height of the controversy.
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 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . JOHN DANFORTH . September 22, 2006 | PBS
Danforth was a U.S. senator from Missouri for three terms and also the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
John Danforth is no stranger to the notion of religion playing a role in politics.
DANFORTH: I think it's important for people who have deep religious views and are in politics to wear their tolerance on their sleeve and to make it clear that, in our eyes, we're all God's people.
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 Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Danforth repeatedly declined requests from reporters at the UN to add the U.S. to the nations expressing support for Annan as he faces demands from U.S. lawmakers to quit because of evidence of fraud in the program that let former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein use oil revenue to buy food and medicine.
Danforth said he was frustrated by the success last month of African nations in blocking a General Assembly resolution critical of human rights abuses in the Darfur region of Sudan, where the U.S. has said genocide has been committed.
Danforth's term, scheduled to end Jan. 20, would be the shortest of any U.S. ambassador to the UN since Daniel Patrick Moynihan held the post from July 1975 to February 1976.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=azz0LEU6c.Mc&refer=us   (800 words)

  
 John Danforth: The Values Divide - US News and World Report
A man who was simultaneously a senator and an Episcopal priest seems an unlikely candidate to argue for disentangling the issues of church and state.
But that's what former Missouri GOP Sen. John Danforth urges in his book Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together.
Danforth, now 70, spoke to U.S. News as the Episcopal Church was shaken by the move by some of its oldest parishes to leave the church over its decision to consecrate a gay bishop.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/070107/15qa.htm   (0 words)

  
 U.N. envoy Danforth resigns - Politics - MSNBC.com
John Danforth had been mentioned as a successor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, but he lost out to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Danforth, who has been described as frustrated with the slow-moving U.N. bureaucracy, had recently told friends that he was running out of patience, especially with the Security Council, whose deliberations he considered difficult, Mitchell reported.
Danforth was sworn in as ambassador to the United Nations on July 1, succeeding Bush’s first ambassador, John Negroponte, who became ambassador to Iraq.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6640316   (464 words)

  
 John C. Danforth
Currently, Danforth is chairman of the Danforth Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on strengthening the St. Louis metropolitan area.
In September, 1999, Danforth was appointed special counsel by then-Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate the federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
Danforth began his political career in 1968, when he was elected Attorney General of Missouri, his first race for public office.
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 Blessing of the Crush Honors Senator John Danforth — Graduate Theological Union
Senator John Danforth is recognized for his distinguished career in law and government, and is an important voice in religion and politics in the United States.
Danforth represented the State of Missouri in the United States Senate for 18 years and served on three key committees: Finance; Commerce, Science and Transportation; and the Select Committee on Intelligence.
He was nominated to serve as President Bush’s Representative to the United Nations in 2004, and in 2001, the president had appointed him Special Envoy for Peace to Sudan in northern Africa.
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