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Over the next 50 years, Eugen made good his oath. He became the Habsburgs' top commander, defeated Louis' armies in the field, and frustrated Louis' territorial ambitions. A century later Napoleon, an artist in the field himself, ranked Eugen as one of the seven most brilliant generals in all history...
...President was perhaps at his best, and most himself, in his peroration. Said he: "The presidency brings no special gift of prophecy or foresight. You take an oath, step into an office, and must then help guide a great democracy. The answer was waiting for me in the land where I was born. It was once barren land. But men came and worked and endured and built. Today that country is abundant with fruit, cattle, goats and sheep. There are pleasant homes and lakes, and the floods are gone...
Savio said that the Free Speech Movement had freed faculty members from the oppression of the administration. "Men whose spirits had been crushed back in the oath fight [when all faculty members were required to sign a loyalty cath], were released to stand up for their rights...
Bravery, Nobility, Dignity. From the plane, Johnson phoned Bobby Kennedy in Washington, and they decided that the presidential oath of office should be administered at Dallas' Love Field. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach dictated the oath to a secretary aboard the plane. Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes, who was to administer the oath, arrived, and Lyndon recalled: "A few minutes later Mrs. Kennedy and the President's coffin arrived. Mrs. Johnson and I spoke to her. We tried to comfort her, but our words seemed inadequate. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find...
After all, U.S. public life is filled with allusions to God-"This nation under God" (Gettysburg Address), "Great God, our king" (America), "So help me, God" (congressional oath of office). The Supreme Court itself opens with the cry: "God save the United States and this honorable court." But the Supreme Court's subsequent bans on public school prayers in 1962 and 1963 led many Americans to think that the mere word "God" had suddenly become unconstitutional. And two agnostics were already suing New York's Commissioner Allen on the ground that the amended pledge imposed "compulsion...