Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

The infamous Bush torture memos have been released and it seems that water boarding (NYT link) was just one of the heinous methods used to elicit information from captives. But since this started I have wondered why the following statement from 100 years ago was not circulated more widely …

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Arrgh — can’t upload the picture!!! (but this links to Flickr).

Saw this recruiting tool tooling down Forest Park and had to wonder — why? Why is the local Marine Corps recruiter driving a $35,000 Hummer H3 with U.S. Government license MC  295393 ?   Why, when we have a trillion dollar deficit, is the military throwing [...]

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Revisionists rejoice (or not)– President Herbert Hoover’s own words on the Great Depression in 1933… via NARA
Following a conversation with Senator Simeon Fess on 2/20/33, Herbert Hoover wrote Fess to record his analysis of key events and developments during the first five periods of Depression. Hoover’s letter was written during the darkest days of his administration. [...]

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