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elocution,
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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it was not only the executive's right but his responsibility "to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it." --
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all his life he had "endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interests of the public, they shall, at least, be required to bring positive facts with which to prove there has not been such collusion; and they ought themselves to have been the first to demand such an investigation." -Teddy Roosevelt"
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Until we address unequal history, we cannot overcome unequal opportunity." Until blacks "stand on level and equal ground," we cannot rest. It must be our goal "to assure that all Americans play by the same rules and all Americans play against the same odds."
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Johnson insisted, "I don't want this symposium to come here and spend two days talking about what we have done, the progress has been much too small. We haven't done nearly enough. I'm kind of ashamed of myself that I had six years and couldn't do more than I did."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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If "defeat is an orphan," the old saying goes, "victory has a thousand fathers,"
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, "he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital of wounded men."
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If the continuing problems created by the Industrial Age were not addressed, he warned, the country would eventually be "sundered by those dreadful lines of division" that set "the haves" and the "have-nots" against one another."
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immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by "the raillery"
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If Roosevelt were given another chance to lead the country, he intended to make the Republican Party once more the progressive party of Abraham Lincoln, to restore "the fellow feeling, mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate for a common object."
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They were stealin' votes in east Texas," Johnson supporter and Austin mayor Tom Miller recalled, "we were stealin' votes in south Texas, only Jesus Christ could say who actually won it." But Jesus wasn't counting, and, by an eighty-seven-vote margin, "Landslide Lyndon" attained the Senate seat he had coveted for so long."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Moreover, he objected, "I have never done an official act with a view to promote my own personal aggrandizement, and I don't like to begin now."
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There it was again: the entrance up the darkened ramp disclosing an expanse of amazing green, the fervent crowd contained in a stadium scaled to human dimensions, the players so close it almost seemed that you could touch them, the eccentric features of an old ballpark constructed to fit the contours of the allotted space. I
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What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition?
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Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth. More important than what happened to them was how they responded to these reversals, how they managed in various ways to put themselves back together, how these watershed experiences at first impeded, then deepened, and finally and decisively molded their lead..
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Chance had placed him in the catapult and now it was up to the vagaries of history to cut the catapult's rope.
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The former slave told his audience that "there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and good man, and of his high"
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In this first foray into politics, Lincoln also pledged that if his opinions on any subject turned out to be erroneous, he stood "ready to renounce them." With this commitment, Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life--a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes."
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no man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit.
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The media and pundits of the day instructed women that their only true fulfillment could be found as wives and mothers, that sexist discrimination was actually good for them, that the denial of opportunity was, in reality, the manifestation of the highest possible goals of womanhood.
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Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way. "An outstanding feature of successful adaptation," writes George Vaillant, "is that it leaves the way open for future growth."
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report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind,
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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He spurred the Whig-dominated state legislature to pass a series of antislavery laws affirming the rights of black citizens against seizure by Southern agents, guaranteeing a trial by jury for any person so apprehended, and prohibiting New York police officers and jails from involvement in the apprehension
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the habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Don't hit till you have to, but, when you do hit, hit hard.
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As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.
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I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them." Restraining"
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If I wasn't busy," she replied, "I'd go crazy."
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The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements "one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores" on the city of New York. Realizing"
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The domestic scene," she admitted, referring not only to the coal dispute but to a rash of racial disturbances that had recently broken out, "is anything but encouraging and one would like not to think about it, because it gives one a feeling that, as a whole, we are not really prepared for democracy."
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defiant of
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The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired.
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The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.
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Corinne suggested a different reason, indicating that her dying father had expressed concern about Theodore's intimacy with Edith, given Charles Carow's fiscal and temperamental instability. If Theodore discussed the issue with Edith that night, he might well have triggered the volatility that he would obscurely explain to Bamie as a clash of tempers "that were far from being of the best."
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He sought the knowledge--not easily accessible--of who had the power of decision over the particular matter in question, and, the source of authority identified, by what means influence could be exerted. This
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Assemblyman Isaac Hunt, who later became a close friend, would never forget the first time he saw Roosevelt. "He came in as if he had been ejected by a catapult," Hunt recalled."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics," a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. "Here was a man--a Democrat until a couple of years ago--who, without any organization went into a Republican National Convention and ran away with the nomination for President . "
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that now operated to destroy him: his inward insistence that the world adapt itself to his goals; his faith in the nation's limitless capacity; his tendency to evaluate all human activity in terms of its political significance; his insistence on translating every disruptive situation into one where bargaining was possible; his reliance on per..
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Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl." --
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Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespeare, as I always do," she would write seven decades later."
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cultivation
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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
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materialism
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They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts"
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