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written after he returned to Missouri.
"I can make the categorical statement that no nuclear bomb can be triggered by any one person regardless of rank without the expressed and personal order of the President of the United States.
No one person is ever in a position to put together a nuclear bomb to be ready for action without involving a group of men who are required for this purpose. The precautions taken are fully adequate against any rash act.
I cannot, of course, to be sure of the circumstances surrounding the steps necessary to be taken under a totalitarian government. If some dictator should become involved in circumstances which might threaten his personal rule, there is no way of knowing whether or not he might not in a mad moment resort to a nuclear bomb.
We would all feel a lot better if there were some assurances that the world would never be subjected to such a madness. That is why we ought to control internationally all such weapons to assure the nations that no rash act by a power-mad dictator could plunge the world into disaster."
Well we have our Herr Dictators right here in River City, USA. And Truman could never have guessed that the dictator he references in his book could be our own Presidents-Dictators.
Look what they are doing to our Constitution. There is unbalance of power. Our dictators laugh at the Congress. They don't comply with answers to questions. They ignore subpoenas. They have partisan minions pull all the dirty tricks in the book and create some new ones. They have an AG who bows to them. They have a Federalist Society who tells them how and figures out how. They have billions for think tanker 'experts' (read partisans) who carry it out and act as public relations expert guests to explain it to us and endorse it for us, as required. They have captive military brass and gun-hos in the ranks. They have a dozen, two dozen tax paid intelligence diggers working in partisan pursuits. Most importantly, they have the Supreme Court.
And now we have Charles Savage with a new book saying Cheney has pursued this (unchecked power) for 30 years. (A thread about the book is on the same page as this thread.)
We have our own worst mad men with thousands of nuclear weapons and none that were truly lost last month.
It's pretty awful to lose things - especially nuclear weapons and our Constitution.
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