Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
By JORDYN PHELPS and BENJAMIN SIEGEL, ABC News
(WASHINGTON) While President Donald Trump has refused to acknowledge that he lost the election, he’s handling the lame-duck period as his predecessors did in one respect: awarding plum appointments to key allies, donors and friends on his way out of the White House.
Since the election, the White House has announced more than 100 appointments and nominations – some to key administration posts, but also to various advisory boards and commissions, in a practice also done by the Bush and Obama White Houses.
He’s named former White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway to the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors despite having no obvious connection to the school or the military, along with Heidi Stirrup, an administration official recently barred from the Justice Department over claims she pressured officials for information related to election fraud.
Walter Sommers has plans for life after the pandemic.
Heâs anxious to resume his duties as a volunteer docent at Terre Hauteâs CANDLES Holocaust Museum, which is temporarily closed.
âI hope to be doing that again very soon,â Sommers said Thursday afternoon.
Courtesy Nancy SommersLong marriage: Louise and Walter Sommers were married for 73 years. She passed away Nov. 30 at age 95, just a month before Walterâs 100th birthday. The couple had been living at Westminster Village.
In the meantime, heâll be marking his 100th birthday on Dec. 29.
Yes, this man who witnessed the Kristallnacht (or Night of Broken Glass) during the Holocaust, escaped Nazi Germany with his family and fought for the U.S. Army during World War II more than 75 years ago is looking forward to 2021.
By JORDYN PHELPS and BENJAMIN SIEGEL, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — While President Donald Trump has refused to acknowledge that he lost the election, he’s handling the lame-duck period as his predecessors did in one respect: awarding plum appointments to key allies, donors and friends on his way out of the White House. Since the election, [.]
Overview of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler.
From 1929 until its dissolution in 1945, the SS was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built up the SS from fewer than 300 members to more than 50,000 by the time the Nazis came to power in 1933. Himmler, a racist fanatic, screened applicants for their supposed physical perfection and racial purity but recruited members from all ranks of German society. With their sleek black uniforms and special insignia (lightninglike runic S’s, death’s head badges, and silver daggers), the men of the SS felt superior to the brawling brown-shirted Storm Troopers of the SA, to which initially they were nominally subordinate.
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