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...several readers to recall the famous motto THE BUCK STOPS HERE, adopted by President Harry Truman (shown here in 1959 at the Truman presidential library in Independence, Missouri). Observed Brad Nelson of Ypsilanti, Michigan: "Unlike Truman, it seems that George W. Bush would rather pass the buck." William C. Ellerman of Silver Spring, Maryland, quipped, "By making the hapless CIA agents the fall guys, Bush signaled that THE BUCK STOPS ANYWHERE BUT HERE." And Ron Bonn of San Diego deduced, "Bush has evidently amended Truman's sign to read THE BUCK STOPS OVER THERE AT TENET'S PLACE...
...David P. Ellerman, one of Summers' colleagues at the World Bank, said that the transition from academic to administrator and Washington insider took one major readjustment...
...with great integrity, didn't leave his assistant out to dry--he took the blame himself. It shows great integrity of mind and also great personal integrity," Ellerman said...
Herself Defined is a book of such famous names, legendary times and places, and unconventional relationships. H.D. married British Writer Richard Aldington, had a daughter, Perdita, with Composer Cecil Gray, and possibly an affair with D.H. Lawrence. Her most enduring relationship was with Bryher, whose father was Sir John Ellerman, a self-made shipping tycoon from Hull...
Bryher's checkbook makes fascinating reading. She kept H.D. in style and paid for much of her daughter's upbringing and education. James Joyce, the Sitwells and Dylan Thomas were recipients of Bryher's beneficence. Ellerman money also enabled her husband, American Writer Robert McAlmon, to publish the early works of Gertrude Stein, Pound, Hemingway and their fellow expatriates...