Quote: "There are only 90,000 people out there...."

[Joel S. Berson]

Warning -- adult language and political expression follow.

For this quotation, one could go straight to the ass's mouth.

Joel

At 10/22/2013 07:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Thanks, G.
>
>In principle this an excellent example of a case where the attributed
>source almost certainly uttered the words (more or less); but given the
>context (a "meeting" of cabinet officials), they may have been meant to
>characterize somebody else's opinion, been intended ironically, or even
>said in jest.
>
>I'm not claiming that they were, however. Perhaps Hickel 's book clarifies
>it.
>
>JL
>
>
>On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:04 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
>adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The HathiTrust search engine says there is a match on page 208 for the
> > following "There are only 90,000 people out there. Who gives a damn"
> > within his edition:
> >
> > Year: 1971
> > Title: Who owns America?
> > Author: Walter J. Hickel.
> > Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall
> > Physical Description: xii, 328 p. 22 cm.
> > Original Classification Number: E855 .H63
> >
> > I have not seen the above book. A book reviewer in the Los Angeles
> > Times gave the following context for the quotation attributed to
> > Kissinger.
> >
> > Newspaper: Los Angeles Times
> > Article date: September 16, 1971
> > Article title: Book by Hickel Explains How Nixon Fired Him: Tells
> > Differences Over SST and Rebuffs When He Criticized Invasion of
> > Cambodia
> > Article page: A4
> > Article author: Don Oberdorfer
> > Newspaper location: Los Angeles, California
> >
> > [Begin excerpt ; check for OCR errors]
> > Presidential Asst. Henry A. Kissinger objected to Hickel's demand for
> > "full compensation" with "full consultation" for any land taken by the
> > government from the Pacific islands people of Micronesia, where the
> > United States is in charge under a United Nations trusteeship. Hickel
> > quotes Kissinger as saying at a State Department meeting, "There are
> > only 90,000 people out there. Who gives a damn?"
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Subject:      Quote: "There are only 90,000 people out there...."
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> > >
> > > Among the Henry Kissinger quotes in YBQ, one does *not* find the
> > following,
> > > which is, as they say, "all over the Internet."
> > >
> > > As best I can tell, it appeared for the first time in former Interior
> > > Secretary Wally Hickel's "Who Owns America?" (Prentice-Hall, 1971), but
> > GB
> > > won't cough up the page.
> > >
> > > Kissinger seems to have been discussing, in 1969, Marshall Islanders who
> > > had been exposed to radiation from U.S. nuclear tests in the 1950s, but
> > not
> > > having seen the context I can't swear to it.
> > >
> > > "There are only 90,000 people out there. Who gives a damn?"
> > >
> > > According to Jack Anderson's column of Oct. 22, 1971, "Kissinger tells us
> > > he can't remember making the statement that Hickel attributes to him. It
> > is
> > > contrary, he says, to his actual views."
> > >
> > > Anderson that the statement was nonetheless typical of both Democratic
> > and
> > > Republican attitudes toward Micronesia.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
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> > truth."
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