They said it:
263. General, I have no Division!
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Don’t wait for the translation . . I am prepared to wait until hell freezes over
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Now he belongs to the ages
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If you boys ever pray, pray for me now
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That’s where the money is
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Pickett, to Lee, after recieving orders for the retreat from Gettysburg. (I think.)
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I know who said it, and I know what it was in reference to, but I can’t pull the name out of my head with pliers. (mutter mutter)
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What famous kidnapping case was used to establish the precedent that kidnapping was to be treated as a crime that transcended state boundaries?
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What famous FBI publicity tool was inaugurated to cover the shame of one of the FBI’s more notorious SNAFUs?
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What was the enemy for which the rallying cry was, “Millions for defense: Not one cent for tribute!”?
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What branch of the US armed forces came into being for that conflict? Bonus points if the answerer can explain why that is the case.
- Don’t wait for the translation . . I am prepared to wait until hell freezes over
Adlai Stevenson?
- What famous kidnapping case was used to establish the precedent that kidnapping was to be treated as a crime that transcended state boundaries?
Lindbergh baby.
- What famous FBI publicity tool was inaugurated to cover the shame of one of the FBI’s more notorious SNAFUs?
10 most wanted list
- What was the enemy for which the rallying cry was, “Millions for defense: Not one cent for tribute!”?
Barbary pirates
- What branch of the US armed forces came into being for that conflict? Bonus points if the answerer can explain why that is the case.
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Marine Corps? Boarding a US frigate (United States?) that had run aground and been captured?
Marine Corps? Boarding a US frigate (United States?) that had run aground and been captured?
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268, 269, and 270 - all correct.
271 Your answer is probably correct but it wasn’t the answer I was looking for. Though the Marines were formed in Washington, D.C., not as an ad hoc force to retake that grounded frigate. (I want to say it was President, but I’m not sure it wasn’t one of the others.) Besides, Uncle Sam’s Unruly Children aren’t a seperate branch of the US armed forces - they’re a Department of the Navy. Yes, I know - they’re the men’s department. Even the women.
Correct.
Also correct!
Correct. With George Wallace, of all people.
John Dillinger
258 and 262, exactly right.
259, nope.
- Gen. George Pickett to Lee, after his failed eponymous charge at Gettysburg, 1863.
- Amb. Adlai Stevenson at the UN during the Cuban Missile Crisis, fencing with the Soviet ambassador, 1962.
- Secretary of War Edwin Stanton after Lincoln’s death, 1865.
- Harry Truman to the White House press corps, after becoming President upon FDR’s death, 1945.
- The celebrated and/or notorious Willie Sutton, when asked why he robbed banks.
I’m not sure what you mean by the parenthetical “federal”, but Dred Scott’s case was heard only as a state case (Scott v. Emerson) in the Old Courthouse. When he re-sued in federal court (Scott v. Sandford), the case was tried at the circuit level in a different building in St. Louis.
#270 (Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute) was said in relation to France, not the Barbary pirates!
I don’t think so. The U.S. Marines predated the Barbary Pirates campaign; I remember that they conducted an amphibious landing against the British in the Caribbean during the American Revolution (I forget the island’s name), and fought aboard John Paul Jones’s USS Bon Homme Richard around then, too.
I’m going to give the answer here for the question I’d asked. It was the US Navy that was formed because of the Barbary Pirates campaign.
The that a lot of people forget is that the United States was decidedly anti-military in its original intent. A permanent Federal armed force was seen as a threat to The Republic. There were enough real concerns about various unfriendly nations and Indian tribes that a weak US Army was accepted as being a necessity, and AIUI some officers and men of the Colonial Line troops were incorporated into the permanent US Army.
A navy, however, was seen as a means of projecting power over seas - only an offensive weapon. And so, with the end of the Revolutionary War, the various warships were sold off, or returned to service with their owners as privateers, or were converted back to merchantmen. It’s also worth noting, IMNSHO, that the Navies that were most well known of the day were far more aristocratic, and caste-like than modern Americans can really imagine without actually studying the conditions. Which was another strike against The Republic having a navy.
Even the Phony War with France wasn’t enough to change that.
Then the Barbary Pirates started making their demands known, and that was what fired the public enough to support the huge expense of building, outfitting, manning and provisioning an expeditionary force to go to deal with the Barbary Pirates.
It’s not that there weren’t Marines upon the ships that served the Colonials during the Revolutionary War, nor do I deny the history of those ships and men that served as a pre-cursor to the US Navy. But because of the 10-15 year gap, you can’t claim, as you can with the US Army, that the US Navy was formed around a nucleus of the veteran naval forces from the Revolutionary War. There just isn’t the continuity of the forces there.
ETA: Just saw Freddy the Pig’s comment - I’m not able to say for certain he’s wrong - though I wasn’t aware that the Phony War included demands for tribute, and I do know that was the MO of the Barbary Pirates.
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What Hollywood star was dismissed after his first screen test with the comment, “can’t sing; can’t act; balding; can dance a little?”
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To what celebration was Tom Lehrer referring in a song lyric when he said “be grateful that it doesn’t last all year?”
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What critic said of a budding actress “her performance ran the gamut of emotions from A to B” and to whom was the critic referring?
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When he was told that a former mayor of Dublin was Jewish his response was “only in America.” Who was he?
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When this irascible former champion golfer saw his age misprinted in the paper he accosted the author of the article and complained. The author responded that it was a typographical error. The golfer then said “typographical my a** it was a perfect 5 and a perfect 9.” Who was he?
- Fred Astaire
- National Brotherhood Week
- Dorothy Parker about Katharine Hepburn
all correct
The Revolutionary navy and marines were called the “Continental Navy” and “Continental Marines”, and as you say they were disbanded after the war. As a result most people date the founding of the United States Navy to 1794 and the United States Marine Corps to 1798, although no one would deny the importance of the earlier naval warfare–John Paul Jones, after all, occupies the place of honor in the crypt at the United States Naval Academy.
The Barbary dust-up came first, although the fighting with France preceded the fighting in North Africa. Congress authorized the creation of a navy in 1794 in response to depredations by the Barbary pirates, but a short-lived truce followed. The navy then came in handy during the Quasi-War with France, and again afterward when the truce broke down and fighting began in North Africa.
The navy as created in 1794 included marines, but they weren’t organized into the United States Marine Corps until 1798, in response to the beginning of the Quasi-War. So some people will say the marines were created in response to the Barbary threats (in 1794), while some will say they were created to fight the Quasi-War (in 1798). Or some will say they were just a reincarnation of the Continental Marines and were created to fight the British!
The demand for tribute was part of the XYZ Affair, in which the Directory which governed France demanded a humiliating bribe before they would even meet with American envoys. For France this was Standard Operating Procedure; the country was chronically broke during the French Revolutionary Wars and lived off of tribute and indemnities. For the United States it was an appalling act of disrespect which touched off the Quasi-War.
Hmm- either I am misremembering :smack: , or perhaps St Louisans conflate the various trials to make the story more dramatic 
The sesquicentennial of the decision was earlier this year, and the National Park Service made a big about it- locally, at least.
By Federal I meant not county, although it appears the "Old Courthouse’ was used for a number of purposes.
All correct, and nice context of the quote also.