Second Act ?
( Second Act ?) Clarification might be in order. Cordell Hull was Secretary of State under FDR and it was he that received the Japanese "ultimatum" in essence declaring war but about an hour after the bombes started falling on Pearl Harbor. Once news of the attack was confirmed, Hull looked at the Japanese delegation, and visibly upset, ". . . fifty years of public service, never seen a document so laced with infamous falsehoods and distortions." The President was not being wholly honest the other night. The President's State of the Union has been dissected by everything but forceps by this point so no need to elaborate further only suffice it to it was, as Secretary Hull would have placed it, "laced with infamous falsehoods and distortions." But what of the Vice President ? Ms. Harris sat to the President's right rear and perhaps seeing herself in due course at that Podium and giving her own State of the Union as President in her own right. That b...