Charles A. Cerami, Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003), 266.
During the War of 1812, President James Madison appointed his secretary of state, James Monroe, to also serve as secretary of war.
Charles A. Cerami, Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003), 266.
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At a CIA prison in Afghanistan called the “Salt Pit,” in 2002 a wet, naked, and chained prisoner died of hypothermia overnight in his cell; he was buried in an unmarked grave.
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 225. |
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