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There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Been Bush Doubt Germany Great Had Inherited No Doubt Powers President President Bush Second Serious Soviet Soviet Union Terrorist Though Threat Totalitarian Union Very

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Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

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No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Africa Almost Almost All Better British Could Dispute East Empire Entire Europeans Except Former Governed Indian Israel Jordan Middle Middle East Morocco Most North Seriously States Sub-Saharan Were

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The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Christ Electorate Individual Vicar

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Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

~Conrad Black

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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

~Conrad Black

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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

~Conrad Black

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All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.

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Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: August 25th, 1944

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