President Grant stated in his 3rd Annual Message, December 4, 1871: "Tribes of Indians have been induced to settle upon reservations ... I recommend liberal appropriations to carry out the Indian peace policy, not only because it is humane, Christian-like, and economical, but because it is right."
Democrat Senator Lyndon Johnson told Democrat Senator Richard Russell regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957: "These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference."
President Dwight Eisenhower at the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, June 10, 1963: "The United Nations has seemed to be two distinct things to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain ... To the free world it has seemed that it should be a constructive forum ... To the Communist world it has been a convenient sounding board for their propaganda, a weapon to be exploited in spreading disunity and confusion."
In 1731, a Spanish commander in the Caribbean detained an English ship. He cut off the ear of the English Captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his King. This began the War of Jenkins' Ear.British Admiral Edward Vernon recruited 400 American colonists, including Lawrence Washington, George Washington's older half-brother. They sailed to Panama and captured the port city of Porto Bello.
