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...system blares out: "Good morning! Did you sleep well?" By 6 a.m. the cadets are outside for reveille formation. They line up by companies, each of which bears an animal's name, e.g., White Horse, Antelope, Panther. They count off, sing the national anthem, repeat the armed forces oath, ending with a fiery pledge to unify the country ("Let us plant the Republic of Korea colors on Paektu-san* and wash our swords in the Yalu River...
Lonardi had hardly taken the presidential oath, when riots broke out in working-class sections of Buenos Aires. In the industrial city of Rosario, a rumor that Perón had left the Paraguay to lead a counter-revolt brought on a bloody clash between gun-toting soldiers and stone-throwing Peronista workers. The new government decreed an 8 p.m. curfew, warned that demonstrators would be shot...
Truman hardly had time to absorb the impact of President Roosevelt's death and the immensity of his new job before he was called upon to make a big decision. Minutes after taking the oath of office -less than three hours after Roosevelt's death-he was preparing to hold his first Cabinet meeting, when Press Secretary Steve Early came into the Cabinet Room. "The press, he explained, wanted to know if the San Francisco Conference on the United Nations would meet, as had been planned, on April 25th. I did not hesitate a second. I told Early...
...Amendment so as to protect themselves not from criminal prosecution but from social disgrace or other embarrassments. In such instances, he held, the invocation of the Fifth Amendment would be "in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath...
Answers Williams: "In other words-although the [Pennsylvania] Note does not pursue the analysis to this conclusion-the invocation of the amendment is what Chief Justice Marshall said was 'in conscience and in law as much a perjury as if he had declared any other untruth upon his oath...