Native American Rev. Red Fox James PH D. D. D (Red Fox Skiuhushu) presumed to be from the Blackfoot Tribe of Montana, arrived in Washington D.C. after riding 4,000 miles on horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Native Americans. His starting point was the Crow Reservation in Montana, or Sheridan Wyoming.
He presented his petition on this day.
He was an active member of the Society of American Indians and was the Most High Chief of the Tipi Order of America. He was also the first to organize the Indian Boy Scouts in America, at the United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
He had been born in Canada in 1884 and lived to at least 1946.
The ride is the origin of Native American Heritage Month.
Central Park in New York on this day:
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British and French forces retreated over the Greek border, ending the Battle of Kosturino. The Allied defeat allowed the Central Powers to establish rail connections to Constantinople.
The Cheyenne State Leader reported other border crossings.
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Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy was arrested on charges of conspiring with Russian citizens who had emigrated from the Soviet Union. He'd be executed after long imprisonment and exile in 1937.
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He was canonized a Hieromartyr by the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Governor General of the Philippines, Leonard Wood, vetoed a bill calling for a plebiscite on independence.
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The legendary toy The Slinky went on sale for the first time. Gimbels in Philadelphia offered it.
Patrick J. Hurley, attorney and career civil servant, resigned as Ambassador of China having submitted a blistering letter of resignation the day prior.
Most assessments of his role in China are not favorable.
As the Sheridan paper makes plain, the US was busy beating itself up over Pearl Harbor, even as the early rumblings of the Cold War were beginning.
He was replaced in his role by George Marshall, a role that Marshall is generally not recalled for.
Norway adopted the UN Charter.
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Fugitive member of the Black Panthers returned from self imposed exile in Paris in order to face murder charges.
During his time in Paris, he'd become a born again Christian and a clothing designer, having designed trousers with a prominent codpiece to free men, he said, from "penis binding".
They did not become popular.
Cleaver was highly eccentric. During his lifetime he swung widely in political views and he spent time in a wide variety of nations, including North Korea, Cuba, China and Algeria. He'd go on to a variety of religions after being a born again Christian before converting to Mormonism. About the same time he became a conservative Republican, and twice ran for the Senate. He'd end up, in spite of this, being convicted of drug possession. He died in 1998 at age 62. His ex wife, Kathleen, remains living and became a lawyer following their divorce in 1987.
He also left behind a son, Dr.Ahmad Maceo ibn Eldridge Cleaver, who was born in Algeria who passed away in Saudi Arabia in 2018 leaving himself three wives and 14 children. His daughter, Joju Cleaver, born in North Korea, is a professor at Georgia State University.
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Charles de Gaulle made a broadcast to the people of France announcing that he rejecting the position of president of FRance due to the "excessive demands regarding ministerial posts." He further announced that he would continue serving but would refuse to appoint any Communist to "any post related to foreign affairs."
Communist had done extremely well in the recent election and were a major component of the coalition government, taking more votes that any other party. The French Section of the Workers International, a French Socialist Party, had done very well also, coming in third. Coming in just behind the Communists, however, was the Catholic Popular Republican Movement. All three parties were in coalition that dates back to the election, with the coalition having De Gaulle's support at the time.
France was, quite frankly, on the very verge of becoming a Communist state, given the strong left wing turnout in the election. If it had, it would have been a disaster of epic proportions for the West. Most people looking at it objectively would have supposed that France would fall to the Communist.
This helps put in context, to a certain extent, the degree to which French military and political figures were proactive in trying to reestablish French colonialism, which was cast, with some credibility, as a war between Western ideals and Communism, although only imperfectly so. That France didn't go into a civil war is in no small part due to DeGaulle. DeGaulle would whether the leftist Third Republic, after which France would pull back from the brink. Still, having said that, why France fought it out in Indochina, and Algeria, makes a lot more sense if that history is grasped.
Josef Kramer, Irma Grese, Dr. Fritz Klein and eight others were sentenced to death by a British military court as Nazi war criminals for their roles in the concentration camps.
Kramer had come up in the concentration camp system, having been in the SS prior to World War Two.He was the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen Belsen.
Grese was 22 years old making her the youngest person to die under British law in the 20th Century. She'd joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel in 1937 at age 13, causing a rift with her father who did not approve of the Nazi Party. She left home at age 14 and entered the SS at age 18, having already worked for Karl Gelbardt by that time. In the camps she gained responsibility and became incredibly sadistic as well as extremely perverted perverted sadistic bisexual who had affairs with imprisoned Jewish women, and who is rumored to have a had one with Josef Kramer, until he learned of that. She was a sadist, and clearly an extremely tortured soul mentally.
Regarding her, inmate Auschwitz Romanian Jewish gynecologist Gisella Perl stated:
She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Her body was perfect in every line, her face clear and angelic and her blue eyes the gayest, the most innocent eyes one can imagine. And yet, Irma Greze was the most depraved, cruel, imaginative sexual pervert I ever came across.
Perl relocated to Israel after the war with her daughter, whom she hid from the Naizs, and died there on December 16, 1988, at the age of 81
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Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins issued a report to the Secretary of the Interior which would end up helping to bring about Gen. Terry's campaign of 1876. Indeed, on the same day, Gen. Sheridan issued a confidential letter to Terry informing him that he had met with President Grant, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of War, and that the Grant had decided that the military should no longer try to keep miners from occupying the Black Hills: "it being his belief that such resistance only increased their desire and complicated the troubles."
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Proclamation of Thanksgiving.BY J. A. CAMPBELL GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY OF WYOMING.THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAVING DESIGNATEDThursday, the 27th day of November, 1873,As a day of Thanksgiving and Praise, I recommend the faithful observance of the day by all the people of Wyoming, in accordance with the usual and time-honored custom."GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER."IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of the Territory to be affixed. Done at Cheyenne, this, Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.J. A. CAMPBELL.[seal] * GREAT SEAL * TERRITORY OF WYOMING [/seal]By the Governor:JASON B. BROWN,Secretary of Territory.
Territorial Governor Campbell was of course a Republican, but not of the type that Republicans would now recognize. He was a political liberal and a backer of women's suffrage. He's served in the Union Army as a general during the Civil War and died in 1880 at the mere age of 44.
After leaving his post as the Territorial Governor, he served in various capacities in the Federal government for the remainder of his short life. Campbell County Wyoming is probably named after him, although there's some dispute on that.
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In what deluded headline writer's mind is Mellon a "Wyoming Billionaire"?
This has been a very revealing series of events however, and we can take some things away from it.
The first thing we have learned is how utterly desperate Donald Trump is to amount to something. He started too late in life and his character is too fixed in order to achieve that, absent late in life inspiration of an existential type which would require him to make a profound change in his behavior. Born into wealth and a playboy by character, he's desperately trying to buy and build himself into seriousness and relevance. In the back of his mind, or frankly maybe in the forefront, he knows that he's a fart in a windstorm. After he's out of office, and no amount of far right fantasizing is going to keep him there, his successor, right or left, will begin the process of trying to repair the damage Trump has done. If its a right wing leader, like wannabe NatCon J. D. Vance, it'll be National Conservative far right, but less insane than Trump. It probably won't be Vance however, but somebody from the political center, particularly if the Democrats get their act together and dump their own wackadoodle far left, which there are signs they will, or from the actual libertarian populist right.
My prediction, early though it is, is that the next President will be Tammy Duckworth, maybe on a Duckworth Klobuchar ticket. I can see, however, Thomas Massie and Rand Paul taking a run at Vance's dreams and keeping them from happening.
Vance would keep the Trump monument to himself up and pretend to like it, as he only is where he is now due to Trump, but as soon as somebody who wasn't a Trump sycophant is in the Oval Office, it's coming down. That will be symbolic of the entire Trump legacy, destruction that will ultimately come down, and have to be rebuilt.
Trump want to see himself as a great man, a sort of Napoleon being crowned, but knows that he's more like Napoleon on Elba. He's not going to get there. He's really extremely pathetic.
Also sad is the degree to which it has been demonstrated that a life of extreme wealth is corrosive. Trump's entire life of largess already showed this, but he really does believe that the White House needs a huge overblown rushed ballroom as he's seen those of failed monarchies in Europe. The republics, or in one case dictatorship, that inherited that stuff still uses it as it's a human instinct not to rip things down. That's why the Brandenburg Gate, which should have been blown to rubble in 1945, is still standing. Yes, it's a monument to German militarism, but it's big and already there so we keep it around. That's the reason the Eiffel Tower is there, even though its a giant ugly radio tower, or why the "egg beater" thing in Casper Wyoming is still there. We just can't bring ourselves to rip things down, no matter hideos they are, or how symbolically problematic.
This will come down.
It'll come down in part as it just won't work with an 18th Century large house built on a budget. It wasn't constructed to be a palace, but just a big house.
Which brings me to my next point.
Perhaps the West Wing, after actually going through the proper process, ought to be taken out as well.
No attachments to the structure are really consistent with its original concept. It isn't supposed to have a lot of offices and the entire concept of the First Lady needing room for anything is absurd. The First Lady is simply the President's wife, or Trump's case in regard to the monarchical role to which he aspires, the current concubine, or in the American Civil Religion context, his current wife.
Maybe it ought to be just scaled back to its original footprint.
Some would object that that would mean that it wouldn't have enough room for its purpose Well, No. 10 Downing Street has less room than the White House. And if more space is really needed, they can find it somewhere else in Washington D.C. Nixon actually did that with the nearby Eisenhower Building.
The drift towards an imperial presidency started with Theodore Roosevelt, who is a person I admire, but whom I admire more than I once did. TR, like Trump, tended to act unilaterally, the difference being that Roosevelt was a profoundly intelligent and moral man, where as the opposite is true of Trump. The East Wing started off in his administration as the fairly modest East Terrace, which looked nice and wasn't an overblown Sun King structure like the proposed ballroom will be, but it nonetheless got the modification trend rolling.
It would be TR's cousin Franklin that really got the modern Presidency established, however, and that due to the emergency of the Great Depression and World War Two. Franklin Roosevelt did not rule as a dictator, although people liked to accuse him of that at the time. Ironically, a President that the Republicans hate to this very day is the one, in some ways, that Trump has tried to emulate, even to the extent of wishing for a third term, which he cannot legally occupy. Franklin, of course, redid the East Wing, which was done in part due to the bomb shelter that was constructed underneath it.
The West Wing also dates back to TR's time in the White House with the construction of what was supposed to be a temporary structure. That structure was expanded in 1909 and ultimately came to be the White House office space. I don't doubt that they need office space, but as noted, maybe it can just be somewhere else.
And in fact, for the most part, it should be.
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Canada
The result is a stunning reversal in fortune. The party's fortunes just several months ago made it appear that it was doomed to defeat, but Donald Trump's assisinne ramblings about annexing Canada as s state revived its fortunes as it's last premier, Justin Trudeau, resisted such calls and insults, and the current one, Mark Carney, stepped out aggressively against them and American tariffs.
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Australia's center-left government dramatically increased its majority after the conservative Liberal-National coalition suffered a major defeat.
Conservatives noted that Donald Trump's spastic bizarre example of the far right in the US helped boost the fortunes of the left, making this the second election in an English speaking country where that has occurred.
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Japan
Japan's Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist parties gained. Whether it can remain in power as a minority government, which it has vowed to do, is not yet known.
The result is at least partially a Japanese reaction to be bullied by Donald Trump.
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Bolivia
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Japan
The new Japanese Prime Minister is hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi, the first woman elected to that post.
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