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For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to changes and movements already under way. The worst, the least successful, are those who respond badly or not at all, and those who misunderstand the direction of already visible change.
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Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh--there Taft was sent.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Sam Parks was simply a paid agent for his union, receiving the same salary as an ordinary workman in his trade. In reality, Baker tracked him "riding about in his cab, wearing diamonds, appearing on the street with his blooded bulldog, supporting his fast horses, 'treating' his friends."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Roosevelt reasoned, "if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered." That post was the one he desired above all others, even a second gubernatorial term. From the moment the United States acquired the islands as a provision of the treaty in 1899 ending the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt had coveted the job of creating a new government in a Philippines free of Spanish ..
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We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy," he proclaimed, "instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging "war on the railroads that ruled his state."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: "Mr. Roosevelt's departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be, its chief interest lies in the disclosure of the mania for power over which Mr. Roosevelt has no control." The people of Chicago greeted the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt quite differently; word that Roosevelt was en route drove the city "plum crazy" with excitement. Ordin..
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Roosevelt repeatedly "brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand." --
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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But unlike the "electric" excitement that had filled the room four years earlier, when Nellie had sparkled with happiness and Taft had "laughed with the joy of a boy," both the president and first lady clearly understood that the divisive convention had rendered Republican chances for election in November almost impossible."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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morning I was at work in the Labor Department
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price so long as the hated friars never returned to the archipelago. The land would then be redistributed among the poor Filipino farmers.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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I want," freshman Senator Gale McGee wrote to Johnson, to take time to convey to you my deep personal appreciation for the committee assignments. Because of these appointments we freshmen have no alibis if by the end of this session we have failed to produce--in other days I suspect freshmen Senators have been able to excuse their early actions by the heavy hand of the old seniority system--but not now. Your action has given to us both indi..
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Things are certainly kaleidoscopic," Roosevelt telegraphed."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The majority of the great fortunes were "won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.
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Undaunted, Will confronted Rose on a street corner and administered what the newspapers termed a "terrible beating." He reportedly "lifted him up and dashed him to the pavement," executing continuous blows and hammering the man's head against the ground until Rose promised to leave town that very night. The story of the thrashing made news across the country. "The feeling among all classes of citizens," observed the Bismarck Tribune, "is th..
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Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
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Johnson saw preoccupation with principle and procedure as a sign of impotence. Such men were "troublemakers," more concerned with appearing forceful than in exercising the real strengths that led to tangible achievement." --
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FDR, even weakened and near the end of his life, opted to allow disabled veterans to see his true condition. This allowed them to understand the life which could still be before them.
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The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.
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gender-roles
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The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
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openness
culture
technology
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He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The biggest danger to American stability," Johnson argued, "is the politics of principle, which brings out the masses in irrational fights for unlimited goals, for once the masses begin to move, then the whole thing begins to explode. Thus it is for the sake of nothing less than stability that I consider myself a consensus man."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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we have a solemn responsibility to cooperate with the President and produce a program that is neither his blueprint nor our blueprint but a combination of the two.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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we should look beyond our noses;
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.
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reading
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media
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The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.
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The choice of Blaine "speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party," he ruefully continued. "It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool." Still,"
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Momentum is not a mysterious mistress," Johnson liked to say. "It is a controllable fact of political life that depends on nothing more exotic than preparation."
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An uncommon intuitive capacity and interpersonal intelligence allowed him as a child to read the intentions and desires of his parents, to react appropriately to shifting household moods--gifts that he would nurture and develop in the years ahead.
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Eleanor had been unable to share in her husband's optimism; she had worried constantly about what America would look like after the fighting stopped, whether the liberal and humane values which had animated the New Deal were being sacrificed to the necessities of war. But in the fall of 1945, as she began traveling around the country again, she realized that the nation had taken even greater strides toward social justice during the war than..
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents,"
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish-American War, appeared on horseback to serve as his escort of honor.
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