Talk:Keith Sebelius

His ethnicity?
Sebelius, by its suffix, would appear Dutch, Lithuanian or Finnish. Does anyone know of his ethnicity? Dogru144 (talk) 01:13, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.24.250.130 (talk) 13:36, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

It has now been fixed. Good. -- Hoary (talk) 00:50, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Letter to Nixon
I read in the article:


 * In October 1969 he asked for his name to be removed from a letter to President Richard Nixon asking for him to not rule out all military options in gaining peace with honor due to the North Vietnamese viewing it as a call of immediate surrender.

I couldn't make sense of this. It was sourced. I looked in the source. The source too was hard for me to understand, but eventually I thought I understood, and I reworded to:


 * In October 1969 he asked for his name to be removed from a letter to President Richard Nixon asking Nixon to point out to the North Vietnamese that the US would not rule out any military option in gaining peace with honor, due to the North Vietnamese viewing it as a call for immediate surrender.

I'm not entirely confident that I got this right. Some other editor(s) should read the source, and think. The editor should preferably be familiar with the letter (which I haven't seen) -- although it's imaginable that Sebelius disagreed with a draft that differed in some way from what was eventually sent, or that a misunderstanding arose in a hurried phone call, or any number of other complications.

If I did understand correctly, then my version is still confusing. I'd be inclined to reword it as something like:


 * In October 1969 he asked for his name to be removed from a letter to President Richard Nixon asking Nixon to point out to the North Vietnamese that the US would not rule out any military option in gaining peace with honor, as Sebelius feared that the North Vietnamese would view the letter as a call for immediate surrender and thus dismiss it out of hand.

But I'm reluctant to tinker any further. -- Hoary (talk) 00:17, 10 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello,, ? A week has gone by; no response. The sole source that's now cited for this Nixon letter business is itself confused; so if there's no more lucid source available then I recommend simply deleting any mention of this. -- Hoary (talk) 23:30, 16 February 2020 (UTC)