Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra
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This was a rotunda with an oculus in the middle of it. The oculus was several feet wide. The room is completely circular. Even the woodwork is steamed into place to fit in a circular room. The dome is mostly gone now. We have various remnants of it in storage. It was plastered, painted skyblue to imitate to the outdoor sky. And the oculus gave early appearance of having leaked quite a bit. The interior was the interior of the dome was painted skyblue. The walls, there is some evidence they were painted a dusty rose or almost a pink. What we have here is the beginning of several surprises on this floor. There is an arched statuary niche. You would have put a marble or plaster statue you to add to the scene. There was an added niche on the side but it appears to have originally held an iron heating stove. Then we enter the two main living areas of the house, the dining room and the parlor. The big surprise here, these rooms with gigantic 14foot ceilings and twin curved walls that butted
Month in an ambush in niger. The florida native, his body arrived at Miami International airport yesterday, the casket draped with an american flag. Johnsons widow was there, overcome with emotion, sobbing. Shes the mother of two with a third on the way. According to floridas democratic congresswoman frederica wilson, she heard President Trump speak with johnsons widow on the phone and he told her, he knew what he signed up for. But when it happens, it hurts anyway. The congresswoman expressed her outrage, phoning in to cnn. This is a young, young woman, who has two children, who is six months pregnant with her third child. She has just lost her husband. She was just told that he cannot have an open casket funeral, which gives her all kinds of nightmares how his body must look, how his face must look. And this is what the president of the United States says to her . The white house is declining to address the phone call, but an Administration Official says the president s conversations
Killed in action earlier this month in an ambush in niger. The florida native, his body arrived at Miami International airport yesterday, the casket draped with an american flag. Johnsons widow was there, overcome with emotion, sobbing. Shes the mother of two with a third on the way. According to floridas democratic congresswoman frederica wilson, she heard President Trump speak with johnsons widow on the phone and he told her, he knew what he signed up for. But when it happens, it hurts anyway. The congresswoman expressed her outrage, phoning in to cnn. This is a young, young woman, who has two children, who is six months pregnant with her third child. She has just lost her husband. She was just told that he cannot have an open casket funeral, which gives her all kinds of nightmares how his body must look, how his face must look. And this is what the president of the United States says to her . The white house is declining to address the phone call, but an Administration Official says