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| b132001 | The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a348059 | persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e9bc90e | already | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9d6cde4 | The Dallas Morning | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a27a664 | Washington | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 5aa59ab | His fierce determination to escape an invalid's fate led him to transform his body and timid demeanor through strenuous work; Taft, on the other hand, blessed from birth with robust health, would allow his physical strength and energy to gradually dissipate over the years into a state of obesity. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4beb0dd | If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't. So with men. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 141e796 | The hand Wilson extended when the two men first met felt "like a ten-cent pickled mackerel in brown paper--irresponsive and lifeless." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1b64d66 | since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3de3f95 | Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. "Do not answer Bryan; attack him!" he counseled in early September, adding, "Don't let him make the issues." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1ce3985 | When they returned home, he took his young son aside. "Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should," he admonished. "You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one's body, but I know you will do it." Teedie responded immediately, according to Corinne, giving his" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4f65c95 | When they returned home, he took his young son aside. "Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should," he admonished. "You must make your body. It is hard drudgery to make one's body, but I know you will do it." Teedie responded immediately, according to Corinne, giving his father a solemn promise: "I'll make my body." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1e4096d | national press. He called them by their first names, invited them | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d25e3c9 | Transforming his body was only one step in the psychological struggle against what Teedie shamefully considered his "timid" nature. "There were all kinds of things of which I was afraid at first," he acknowledged, "but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid." As a childhood friend observed, "by constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing," he was able to cultivate courage as "a matter of .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0047cb6 | Our party, he declared, stands for "the right of property" and "the right of liberty," for institutions that have "stood the test of time," and for an economic system that rewards "energy, courage, enterprise, attention to duty, hard work, thrift, and providence" rather than "laziness, lack of attention, lack of industry, the yielding to appetite and passion." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| c480af8 | The habits of mind Roosevelt developed early in his academic career would serve him well throughout his life. As soon as he received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Preparing so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought. During" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 09f5c90 | all relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another--except at knifepoint--to do what he does not want to do."17" | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f4c92e0 | Within the coming decade alone, three signal amendments would be added to the Constitution: the Sixteenth, giving the national government the power to levy a progressive income tax, without which many of the New Deal's social programs might not have been possible; the Seventeenth, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators; and the Nineteenth, finally granting American women the right to vote. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1fc0c96 | At last, the crowd composed itself enough for Roosevelt to speak. "At present," he began, "both the old parties are controlled by professional politicians in the interests of the privileged classes." Together, they would forge a new Progressive Party, based on "the right of the people to rule." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bf19d3b | On the morning of June 20, at a hastily arranged conference at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel, a new umbrella organization was born with Eleanor as honorary chair--the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children. The purpose of the new committee was to coordinate all the different agencies and resources available in the United States for the care of refugee children. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| c91bb28 | I hated to have us take the Philippines, but I don't see how in the world we can give them up. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fc2f394 | Nevertheless, no other speech proved "so effective, none so full of character and none which found so responsive an audience. It carried everything before it, and old campaigners sighed that such energy was beyond them." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2fd2185 | Wilson argued that "the wealth of America" lay in its small businesses, its towns and villages. "Its vitality does not lie in New York, nor in Chicago," he asserted; "it will not be sapped by anything that happens in St. Louis. The vitality of America lies in the brains, the energies, the enterprise of the people throughout the land; in the efficiency of their factories and in the richness of the fields that stretch beyond the borders of th.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 1e98b10 | White vividly recalled sitting "pop-eyed with wonder" at the edge of his chair while Roosevelt spoke "with a kind of dynamic, burning candor" about his plans." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f34728a | Still, Roosevelt noted, it was "not always easy to strike the just middle," and he inevitably made mistakes." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fa49707 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN | Daniel H. Pink | ||
| c8d5ae1 | During the long sea voyage from Manila to San Francisco, doctors discovered that Taft's incision was not healing properly. It was "opened and drained," but months of bed rest the previous fall had weakened his knees and ankles, making it painful for him to stand for any protracted time. To compound matters, Nellie was suffering from what was later diagnosed as malaria." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3289587 | Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6e9fb02 | With McClure's support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and Madison. "My business is to find subjects and writers, to educate myself in the way the world is wagging, so as to bring the magazine up to date," he explained to his father. "I feel ready to do something really fine." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7c3a564 | Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| cb0305b | It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract," he noted, "to require that when men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form," they assume an obligation to the public." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 413a991 | The young man never seemed to know what idleness was," marveled Cutler, "and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some English classic or some abstruse book on natural history in his hands." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d88a599 | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0fe464f | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e03aa27 | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 85bf7fe | 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 .. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| d7b190c | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| fd1b4fd | I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 705eaca | Republican Robert La Follette of Wisconsin had defied the machine to become governor by waging "war on the railroads that ruled his state." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 3bcaacd | 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.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 23ea38f | Roosevelt repeatedly "brought his clenched fist down on the palm of his other hand." -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0d89c6b | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 960c721 | morning I was at work in the Labor Department | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4dc8aad | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin |