“Meadows was also among those in the East Room of the White House when Trump gave remarks around 3 a.m. Wednesday to a crowd of about 150 of his top aides, donors and allies, as well as family members. During that event, Meadows worked the room extensively, without a mask, speaking to dozens. He stood near Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski, one of the few people there who was wearing a mask…
‘We’re not going to control the pandemic,’ Meadows said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on Oct. 25."
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The President was despondent. Sensing that time was running out, he had asked his aides to draw up a list of his political options. He wasn’t especially religious, but, as daylight faded outside the rapidly emptying White House, he fell to his knees and prayed out loud, sobbing as he smashed his fist into the carpet. “What have I done?” he said. “What has happened?” When the President noted that the military could make it easy for him by leaving a pistol in a desk drawer, the chief of staff called the President’s doctors and ordered that all sleeping pills and tranquillizers be taken away from him, to insure that he wouldn’t have the means to kill himself.
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Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose
The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.
By Jane Mayer
November 1, 2020
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Othmar Carli was taken with his 1st grade class to watch a synagogue burning in Austria. As a 6 year old he decided to devote his life to restoring places of worship. Drafted into the Hitler Youth, scars on his back bear witness to his resistance of the Nazis.
Freddy was an ordinary soldier, not SS. Before the army he was a journeyman cabinet maker.
Othmar is an artist/restorer who restored bombed buildings in Vienna. He met his American opera singer wife Peggy while restoring an opera house in Vienna. Othmar & Peggy Carli moved to her home in East Berlin PA near York.
I remember their 2 year old daughter Mary Anna painting a cow picture and asking her Dad. "Do cows wear support stockings?' Othmar stifled a laugh & said yes. I couldn't hold back a laugh. I learned something about raising children from Othmar.
Othmar taught at the York Academy of Art and created a school to train restorers.
Freddy & Othmar worked together at a furniture company. Othmar designing furniture, Freddy building it.
They didn’t get along.
I liked them both.
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“All my orders have been ignored. How can I be a leader under these circumstances? It’s over. The war is lost. But if you think this means that I’ll leave Berlin, you’re wrong. I’d rather shoot a bullet through my head.”
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Hitler's death: On 30 April, as the Battle of Nuremberg and the Battle of Hamburg ended with American and British occupation, in addition to the Battle of Berlin raging above him with the Soviets surrounding the city, along with his escape route cut off by the Americans, realizing that all was lost and not wishing to suffer Mussolini's fate, German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker along with Eva Braun, his long-term partner whom he had married less than 40 hours before their joint suicide.[12] In his will, Hitler dismissed Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, his second-in-command and Interior minister Heinrich Himmler after each of them separately tried to seize control of the crumbling Third Reich. Hitler appointed his successors as follows; Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as the new Reichspräsident ("President of Germany") and Joseph Goebbels as the new Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany). However, Goebbels committed suicide the following day, leaving Dönitz as the sole leader of Germany.
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