John Kelly Pins Civil War on a ‘Lack of Ability to Compromise’
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John Kelly Pins Civil War on a ‘Lack of Ability to Compromise’
He called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man who gave up his country to fight for his state,” said
that “men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand,” and argued that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
Gen. John Kelly just said “the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War.” Compromise on what, exactly?
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Other people referred disapprovingly to Mr. Kelly’s reputation as a voice of reason
and discipline within the Trump administration: the “adult in the room”; the person keeping, or at least trying to keep, Mr. Trump under control.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice King had weighed in on Mr. Kelly’s description of Robert E. Lee as “honorable,” calling his comments “irresponsible”
and “dangerous” and criticizing him for making “fighting to maintain slavery sound courageous.”
On Tuesday, the White House did not back down.
Instead, Mr. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, resurrected the debate over Confederate monuments
— previously fueled by his boss, President Trump, over the summer — and the Confederacy itself.
The Missouri Compromise, in 1820, admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state; in exchange, it admitted Maine as a free state
and barred slavery in most parts of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of a specified latitude.
He called Robert E. Lee “an honorable man who gave up his country to fight for his state,” said
that “men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand,” and argued that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War.”
Gen. John Kelly just said “the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War.” Compromise on what, exactly?
https://t.co/ciEienHASx
Other people referred disapprovingly to Mr. Kelly’s reputation as a voice of reason
and discipline within the Trump administration: the “adult in the room”; the person keeping, or at least trying to keep, Mr. Trump under control.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter Bernice King had weighed in on Mr. Kelly’s description of Robert E. Lee as “honorable,” calling his comments “irresponsible”
and “dangerous” and criticizing him for making “fighting to maintain slavery sound courageous.”
On Tuesday, the White House did not back down.
Instead, Mr. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, resurrected the debate over Confederate monuments
— previously fueled by his boss, President Trump, over the summer — and the Confederacy itself.
The Missouri Compromise, in 1820, admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state; in exchange, it admitted Maine as a free state
and barred slavery in most parts of the Louisiana Purchase territory north of a specified latitude.