As governor general of the Philippines, Taft had welcomed every political group at Malacañan Palace, making it a rule never to pay any attention to personal squabbles and differences.
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. Toge...
At the time the Constitution was adopted, Lincoln pointed out, the plain unmistakable spirit of that age, towards slavery, was hostility to the principle, and toleration, only by necessity, since slav...
Before any outcome was made public, the radicals had worked themselves into a fury of rage, certain that the president was about to give up the political fruits which had been already gathered
Before his marriage Lincoln enjoyed close relations with young women and almost certainly found outlets for his sexual urges among the prostitutes who were readily available on the frontier.
But the same personal charm that had propelled Taft to the presidency ultimately proved dangerous to him, Baker concluded. For far too long, his amiable nature had kept him from the rough-and-tumble o...
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 cl...
Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he ought to be President; he has no doubt whatever about that. These two unfortunate tend...
Democratic periodicals in the North warned that the governor’s stance would compromise highly profitable New York trade connections with Virginia and other slave states. Seward was branded a bigoted N...
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 weake...
Each party profited by the offices when in power, Roosevelt explained, and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly what it itself had done and intended agai...
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition, he wrote. I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succee...
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition, he wrote. I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
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.
For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of the Kennedy family and many who knew Franklin Roosevelt, a...
From his early twenties, Lyndon Johnson had operated upon the premise that if he could get up earlier and meet more people and stay up later than anybody else, victory would be his.
Get the books, and read and study them, he told a law student seeking advice in 1855. It did not matter, he continued, whether the reading be done in a small town or a large city, by oneself or in the...
Get the books, and read and study them, he told a law student seeking advice two decades later. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.
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...
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 per...
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