unquo unquote. under that texas law a state university id was found not to be adequate proof but a state concealed weapons permit was. in wisconsin in 2015, the chief of staff to a leading republican state senator resigned after attending a party caucus in which she said some legislators were lit laterally giddy over the effect of state voter id laws on minorities and college students. finally last year an appellate federal court in north carolina stated based on state government e-mails that republican lawmakers had targeted in their new voting laws, and i quote again, african-americans with almost surgical precision. unquote. let me be frank, voter fraud did not become an issue in north carolina as in other places until people of color decided to cast ballots in record numbers and become an item of greater e mer genesr energy in the -- emergency in the president obama. saddled with a governing philosophy that is at odds with an evolving operation, some republicans decide fd you can't beat them, ch

bob haldeman quote unvented both the modern presidential campaign and the modern white house, unquo unquote. from his time in the nix inadministration, quote, for the next two generations, the haldeman system helped one white house after another attain a level of professional excellence in staff, work and efficiency and organization that met the growing responsibilities of government and the demands of global leadership. bob in a quote that quickly became famous described his job a little more succinctly. he said every president needs an s.o.b. and i'm nixon's. at the time many people took that literally and it didn't help bob when watergate focused a national spotlight on bob. people who didn't know bob and only saw him as a tough white house chief of staff whose crew cut was as intimidating az his prose style missed the whole point. far from being everybody's s.o.b., bob hold mand was one of the most thoughtful, human and huh main people i have ever met. he was a demanding but fair boss and a true patriot. bob was born in los angeles in october of 1926, an eagle scout, was in the naval re