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Your letters By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article. Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church organs in the town, and spent much of the time made available to him on the instrument of the Gargrave Road Methodist Church to which WRM refers. ....
Your letters By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article. Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church organs in the town, and spent much of the time made available to him on the instrument of the Gargrave Road Methodist Church to which WRM refers. ....
Right now the union in many ways, you know you and i know a lot of saying smart patriotic folks who are not sure we survive this man. i have continued to be hopeful that we do, but that hope is based on believing that a sufficient number of us will say, and particularly those of us who have been given power in the public square, in congress, in the senate, will say, you know what? i don t want to be joe mccarthy. i want to be margaret j. smith. i don t want to be george wallace, i want to be rosa parks, i don t want to be neville chamberland. i want to be winston church hill. i think that s the kind of conversation we have to have. i am going to hold it right here. let me slip in this commercial break and ask you to stay with us on the other side. i want to talk to you about a person in history known as mr. x, and by the way of retelling that story, we will ask our pulitzer prize-winning historian if history needs to be signed ....
And in this case we just have an imperfect person. right now the union in many ways, you know you and i know a lot of saying smart patriotic folks who are not sure we survive this man. i have continued to be hopeful that we do, but that hope is based on believing that a sufficient number of us will say, and particularly those of us who have been power in the public square in congress, in the senate, will say, you know what? i don t want to be joe mccarthy. i want to be margaret j. smith. i don t want to be i think that s the kind of conversation we have to have. i am going to hold it right here. let me slip in this commercial break and ask you to stay with us on the other side. i want to talk to you about a person in history known as mr. x, and by the way of retelling that story, we will ask our ....
Power there, and there is one other major difference. in the early 1950s, you had margaret j. smith, a republican speaking out against joseph mccarthy. you had a president, dwight eisenhower, republican, working against him, and one of the figures in my book, charles potter of michigan, who was elected to the senate and worked with joseph mccarthy on his subcommittee until he saw what was going on and the machinations of mccarthy and later wrote a book called days of shame regarding what had happened that era. i wonder two things where. is the margaret j. smith today and what republican is going to write that book, days of shame. you also get to something else. i m sitting here thinking that eisenhower really took his time, and eisenhower hung back while a lot of this was going on. history is judging people right now during this period we re living through. history is judging a good many ....