Ex-gov hails survivors who keep memory alive; Former NJ Gov. Christine Whitman told Holocaust educators, “We need always to be engaged because disengagement can lead to truly tragic occurrences.”

Ex-gov hails survivors who keep memory alive; Former NJ Gov. Christine Whitman told Holocaust educators, “We need always to be engaged because disengagement can lead to truly tragic occurrences.” By Robert Wiener NJ Jewish News April 30, 2009 [...]

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by Tiffani N. Garlic

by Tiffani N. Garlic The Star-Ledger April 27, 2009 The students sat transfixed as the black-and-white images of children their age in dirty prison uniforms gazed at them from behind barbed wire fences. And, when those victims of genocide in Rwanda revealed scars from machetes that had hacked their faces and bodies, everyone gasped. [...]

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Jindal’s Moment

Jindal's Moment By Philip Klein The American Spectator Blog February 24, 2009 In addition to this being President Obama's first speech to a joint session of Congress, it's also Bobby Jindal's chance to introduce himself to a large national audience in delivering the Republican response. According to the Washington Post, Jindal will be delivering the speech from the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, which is more or less a typical way to deliver the response. I think he would have been better off taking a page out of Christine Todd Whitman's book. Back in 1995, when she was the tax cutting governor still in good graces with the party, she delivered her response in front of an audience in the New Jersey state assembly chamber, which mitigated the natural advantage that President Clinton had by delivering a speech in front of Congress with all its pageantry. [...]

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