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| 5a61fc4 | 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.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 890ceb7 | Things are certainly kaleidoscopic," Roosevelt telegraphed." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| a3a85b3 | Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 0d7d2df | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 77a8b72 | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b24aa0e | Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e244a36 | 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.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 685ecbc | Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 178a6ef | I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2e7e297 | Not everyone was meant to be No. 1. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 60e0a20 | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| b4899ba | Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6674ae3 | It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 9d8cbaa | Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| dcef794 | 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." -- | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| cffaf1f | fishwife, | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6ed2a74 | 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. | vulnerability | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| bb35a16 | 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. | gender-roles media | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 636c5aa | The habit of mobility had become ingrained. | culture impatience openness technology | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| cb60cd8 | He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| e3c2b42 | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 85251ad | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 44139a6 | we should look beyond our noses; | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 2c919e5 | If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him. | disability media reading social-networking technology | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| a815c20 | 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. | humility ministry mission self-forgetfulness | Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| 44e63bd | 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," | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ccc85fc | 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." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 45b1441 | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7549079 | 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.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 48d7e41 | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 389932c | How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents," | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 4bb4cfe | 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. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| c8d179a | that Roosevelt | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 8782b4c | If ever there was a country unprepared for the war, it was the U.S. in 1940. And yet now, only four years later, the United States was clearly the most productive, most powerful country on the face of the earth. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 673fa0e | Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Do the times make the leader or does the leader shape the times? How can a leader infuse a sense of purpose and meaning into people's lives? What is the difference between power, title, and leadership? Is leadership possible without a purpose larger than personal ambition? | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| bbb815e | when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| f483ddc | When I read aloud," Lincoln later explained, "two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I remember it better." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 7bf2d8f | A true leader is a man who can get people to work together on the points on which they agree and who can persuade others that when they disagree there are peaceful methods to settle their differences. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 38be7cc | Everything was of interest to him," marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, "people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| afc819d | If I am ever to be remembered," Johnson wistfully told me, "it will be for civil rights." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| 6beb439 | The bullet that rests in Roosevelt's chest has killed Wilson for the Presidency," one Democratic speaker suspected." | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| abb81dd | The idea that the congressional Democrats have a responsibility for taking the national Democratic platform and program and trying to push it through the Congress is simply crazy. A political party at a national convention draws up a program to present to the voters. The voters can either accept it by giving the party full power, reject it by taking the party completely out of power, or give it qualified approval by giving one party the Con.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| ae3a5c9 | Nor did Johnson restrict his insistence on his concept of the proper relations between President and Congress to infringements proposed by liberal Democrats. In 1955 the conservative Republicans sponsored a resolution that would put the Senate on record against President Eisenhower's participation in the Big Four summit meeting unless he first obtained a commitment from the Soviets to include the status of the Eastern European satellites as.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin | ||
| eff03f6 | debate and decision. Congress itself was not, in his view, equipped with the expertise, the time, or the type of coherent organizational structure needed to formulate and initiate programs of action on a regular and systematically related basis. "Whenever my critics in the Congress talked to me about the responsibility of creating issues, I came back to the question of where in the hell they expected the issues to come from--from our heads?.. | Doris Kearns Goodwin |