I just want to help you out because people try to twist your words, Turner began, before teeing up what he seemed to think would be an easy denial: You are not confirming in your testimony today that at the Pentagon there are plans for invading or taking by force Greenland, correct? That is not your testimony today?
I realized that my weatherproof coat was still hanging, supposedly unmissably, next to my front door. I landed in Nuuk, Greenland's capital, with nothing but a big cardigan to protect me from the elements.
Let me remind you that by 1868, the purchase of Alaska was ridiculed in American newspapers... Now, the purchase under president Andrew Johnson had been vindicated.