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He acknowledged that growing up with an alcoholic parent may have made him particularly eager to please and placate.
To this one might add the single paragraph I devote to the origin of the Washington Holocaust Museum, which, as you wrote in your Holocaust Memorials in History , was "proposed by then-president Jimmy Carter to placate Jewish supporters angered by his sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia."
To placate skeptics, supporters emphasized not the glory of the new Constitution but its imperfections, promising it would be improved over time--with the Bill of Rights as a down payment.
The NYT and WSJ report a new revelation made by the German firm Deutsche Bank in its attempt to placate Holocaust survivors whose property ended up in the bank's accounts so that it can receive approval of its planned takeover of the American financial institution Bankers Trust.
Gingrich's approach will not placate die-hard defenders of the current system, who are already up in arms about the Moynihan plan.