This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

A fellow came up to me, a Senator, I don't have to tell you his name, and he told me, ' I love the President like a brother, but God damn it, he's crucifying me.

Specifically, the President was told that one of Colson's people had gone to Wisconsin and tried to talk to the prosecutors.

Afterward, former President Eisenhower told Kennedy that " the failure of the Bay of Pigs will embolden the Soviets to do something that they would otherwise not do.

John Landis recalled that " Although he was extremely ill he told me he could not die until he voted for Obama for President and he did.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

Jacqueline Kennedy recalled that Hoover told President John F. Kennedy that King tried to arrange a sex party while in the capital for the March on Washington and told Robert Kennedy that King made derogatory comments during the President's funeral.

IEG President Seth Warshavsky told the New York Post, " We have been presented with another Kelsey Grammer tape.

He reportedly told Pakistan's President Muhammad Ali Jinnah to begin negotiations for Kalat's treaty of accession to Pakistan.

People were ordered from their homes and told to lock all windows and doors, by police, at least an hour prior to President Banda passing by ... we were expected to wave.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.

Sawyer, a homeopathic doctor who was Harding's personal physician, told President Harding that Forbes was selling valuable hospital supplies to an insider contractor.

He told President Clinton that, " the Arab leader who would surrender Jerusalem is not born yet.

A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days after President Kennedy is told of the pictures, between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.

For example, Anthony Scaramucci reportedly told President Barack Obama in 2010 that he felt like a piñata, " whacked with a stick " by " hostile politicians ".

" Coles used the opinion of Thomas Gilmer to back himself up ; Gilmer said Jefferson told him at Monticello before the election of Adams in 1825: " One might as well make a sailor of a cock, or a soldier of a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson.

Humphrey's defeat in 1960 had a profound influence on his thinking ; after the primaries he told friends that, as a relatively poor man in politics, he was unlikely to ever become President unless he served as Vice-President first.

He told President Johnson that bombing North Vietnam was not a solution to the problems in South Vietnam, but bombing would require the injection of US troops to protect the airbases.

Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey — Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly opposed his Administration's Vietnam War policy, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention.

Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser told a Syrian delegation, including President Shukri al-Quwatli and Prime Minister Khaled al-Azem, that they needed to rid their government of communists, but the delegation countered and warned him that only total union with Egypt would end the " communist threat ".

Grant ( serving as President when Sherman ’ s memoirs first appeared ) later remarked that others had told him that Sherman treated Grant unfairly but " when I finished the book, I found I approved every word ; that ... it was a true book, an honorable book, creditable to Sherman, just to his companions — to myself particularly so — just such a book as I expected Sherman would write.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

When Harry S. Truman, the American President, told Stalin that the Americans had created a bomb never seen before, Stalin related the conversation to Molotov and told him to speed up development.

President Harry S Truman told Congress the Doctrine was " the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

That April, after the death of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, former Vice-President Harry S. Truman was told about the secret wartime project for the first time.

In 1950, President Harry Truman told Catholic leaders he wanted to send an ambassador to the Vatican.

Minton declined because of his health, but he told Truman he would be interested in a seat on the Supreme Court.

“ I had been left in the dark about the Moscow conference ,” Truman told Byrnes bluntly.

Biddle's successor, Tom Clark told the story that Biddle, who wore spats, was the first government official whose resignation Truman sought, and that it was quite a difficult task.

Fortuitously for the CIA, that failed scouting trip coincided with the first US state visit of Anastasio Somoza García, the President of Nicaragua ( 1937 – 47, 1950 – 56 ), who told the Truman Administration ( 1945 – 53 ) of the existence of a small, Guatemalan rebel-group commanded by Col. Castillo Armas.

Senator ( later President ) Harry Truman, Chair of the Senate Committee investigating war contracts, told a Washington press conference in 1943: " Suspicions, rivalries, apathy, greed lie behind most of the bottlenecks.

In the United States, where Moral Re-Armament was doing similar work, Senator ( later President ) Harry Truman, Chair of the Senate Committee investigating war contracts, told a Washington press conference in 1943: ' Suspicions, rivalries, apathy, greed lie behind most of the bottlenecks.

By this time Truman was pessimistic about international arms control and told his advisors " Since we can't obtain international control we must be strongest in atomic weapons.

President Harry S. Truman reportedly told author Merle Miller that in 1945, Eisenhower asked permission from General George Marshall to divorce his wife to marry Summersby, but permission was refused.

* Garrett Mattingly, the historian, said that in the course of his wartime intelligence job, he read the cable from Marshall to Eisenhower that Merle Miller claimed Truman told him about ; Mattingly recalled that Marshall threatened Eisenhower with relief from his position as supreme commander if he divorced Mamie to marry Summersby.

When they finally admitted that the leaders had been arrested ( on 5 May ), the American envoy of Harry S. Truman, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, was told by Joseph Stalin that “ there is no point in linking the case of the Trial of the Sixteen with the support for the Soviet-backed government of Poland because the sentences will not be high .” Both British and American governments shared this view.

" Truman told it the way he remembered it.

Truman, still smarting from the defeat, was mollified somewhat by Black's hospitality ; as he told Black, " Hugo, I don't much care for your law, but, by golly, this bourbon is good ".

One Kansas City rabbi told reporters that Jacobson should become President of Israel, and Truman wrote him that while Israel " couldn't nominate a better man, I sincerely hope you won't take it ".

Truman had never been told of the existence of the Venona project, and always insisted Republicans had trumped up the loyalty issue for political gain.

York told his followers that in 1952, grotesque extraterrestrial Andromedeans that resembled the Predator met with and frightened U. S. President Harry S. Truman.