Save the Date - Lincoln Day Dinner March 21, 2009

Next meeting will be 7:30 p.m. –TUESDAY, February 24, 2009 – at the First Merit Bank, Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville OH 44039 - Check your mail for the Newsletter for February

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The Lorain County Republican Annual Lincoln Day Dinner is set for Saturday, March 21st at DeLuca's In The Park, Lorain. The guest speaker is the Honorable John Kasich. Time for the event is scheduled for: 6 PM cocktails, 7PM dinner. More info will follow. Contributions for the Silent Auction would be appreciated. Please contact Helen W. Hurst, Chairman

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Details are still being hammered out for the Spaghetti dinner fund-raiser, and while the May 3rd is probably the date, please watch here for confirmation of the date and location.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome."
--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 35

The Newsletter committee seeks members to contribute IOI’s (Items of Interest) and News for our monthly Newsletter. Please call or email Dianne Mueller if you would like to be on the Newsletter committee. (diannemueller@yahoo.com)

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Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.

When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There were no Secret Service following them. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise." As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food. Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed,

"My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"

Here’s an interesting web site: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

When you go there just point your mouse on a city anywhere in the world and that city's newspaper headlines pop up... Double click and the page gets larger.... cool!

If you can read other languages, it's even better. Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left side of Germany will pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of course). AND, this site changes everyday with the publication of new editions of the paper.