...............President Kennedy's quote on the Republican Party.................................

[Stuart G]

Last edited Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:30 PM - Edit history (1)

.....................A Great Quote, Simple, Short and True. ____________________________________________________________________

................... The Republican Party can lead any person to believe
................... that their promises will be fulfilled in the future.
................... They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie;
................... repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

[hlthe2b]

1. Can you source that comment?

I'd sure like to think JFK really said that somewhere, but I've never heard it attributed to him.

[Stuart G]

2. I found it, 10th paragraph..at this link, JFK said this in 1947..at a Knights of Columbus meeting.

Remarks of John F. Kennedy, Fitton Council, Knights of Columbus, East Boston, Massachusetts, May 18, 1947
...Hit the link below, and see the entire speech,..scroll down to the tenth paragraph..This is legit..and here is the date, and place of the speech...(and also the entire speech)

Here is the entire 10th paragraph from this speech...( please look at last 2 sentences)
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Along with Old Joe’s hand-picked candidates, the Grundy Old Party, at its Philadelphia convention, adopted a platform. It contains many nice phrases and pledges of what the Party will do if the legislative and the executive branches of government are entrusted to it for the next four years. But most of those phrases and those pledges were contained in the platform adopted by the Grundy Old Party four years ago. They were filled with hopocrisy then. There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/east-boston-ma-19470518

[hlthe2b]

5. Thank you... I'm bookmarking it for future reference.

[mountain grammy]

18. Thank you.. I love that website.

I've visited often.

[Trailrider1951]

3. Here you go:

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/382212

[Brother Buzz]

4. "I offer my opponents a bargain: If they will stop telling lies about us...

I will stop telling the truth about them" - Adlai Stevenson

[Stuart G]

7. .....Well, Well, Well.......Adlai Stevenson..?? Ran for President of the United States..1952 & 56

............from Illinois.........................................

...Is that who you are referring to?...I am not sure many here know who he is. Lost to Eisenhower both times

[Brother Buzz]

8. Of course

By default, he was a favorite son of California.

[erronis]

10. Sad to think that one of the smartest persons to run for president is an unknown...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II

He was demonized by, you guessed it, the (r)epuglicons as being too smart, too much of an "egg head". Something that the powers-that-be didn't want in a president.

Surprising that Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, and Obama - all scholars and smart - made it to the presidency. Over the years the anti-democracy party and supporters have honed their messages and operations. Now it's just obvious denying votes to people that want fair and transparent governance.

[Historic NY]

6. I sent it to twittersphere.

[kairos12]

9. Hitler understood that people tell little lies

all the time in their life. People avoid the overarching big lie because people figure no one would believe them. Hitler understood that if he told the big lie long enough it would be believed because nobody could actually get away with the big lie for long. Or so the people thought.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. The global oligarch's of the day,

international capitalists, invested in Hitler. It was kind of hushed up after the war, only surfaced in a few books in the 1960s, not really revisited from what my perfunctory searches found, until the late 80s, 90s. As more information comes out from government archives, more is known. The oil and automotive support for Hitler's Germany, for example, now widely known. I think the public wanted to move on, and forget the pain, and governments and corporations were only too happy to oblige. Historian Nigel Hamilton makes the point in his FDR trilogy that even Churchill sanitized a few things (not pertaining to investments in Germany, but about the war) in his post-war autobiography, and I think some reference was made about all the British investment in Germany didn't sit too well in post-war de Gaulle France.

There is an episode of Hercule Poirot - fiction, I know - about a British globalist who was dealing in cooking oil shortages with Nazi Germany pre-war. So it's not like the idea was unknown.

[rurallib]

12. Let's bring in that Great Democrat Harry Truman for his opinion

Believe this was 1948. So much still the same, some much worse:

[MFGsunny]

13. Thanks. I needed that! n/t

[rurallib]

14. one of my favorite videos

I love to listen to Truman. I am hoping Biden can channel him.

[MFGsunny]

15. This! n/t

[sarge43]

16. The more things change; the more they stay the same.

A Missouri farm boy would know about bull shit.

One of my favorite HST stories: During some WH soiree a DC matron approach Bess Truman and asked if she could get the president to use a 'nicer' word than manure. Bess answered, "Do you have any idea how long it took me to get him to use manure?"

[rurallib]

17. !

[hangaleft]

19. My favorite quote (it may not be exact, but it's very, very close if it's not exact)

“I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” — Adlai Stevenson, 1955 (might be off a year)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. FDR understood their BS tactics too.

[crickets]

21. K&R for the post and the discussion.