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 blow...
There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. I persistently refused to lose my temper, he recalled. I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind. Though he steadfas...
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; hi...
The bullet that rests in Roosevelt’s chest has killed Wilson for the Presidency, one Democratic speaker suspected.
On the return trip, they passed a brigade of black soldiers, who rushed forward to greet the president, screaming, yelling, shouting: ‘Hurrah for the Liberator; Hurrah for the President.’ Their spont...
Indeed, several months later, when Lincoln became convinced that Schofield was actually leaning toward the conservatives instead of using his influence to harmonize the conflicting elements, he decide...
In order to win a man to your cause, Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
If you spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, anything would seem easy!
If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.
I HAVE NO DOUBT that Lincoln will be the conspicuous figure of the war, predicted Ulysses S. Grant. He was incontestably the greatest man I ever knew.
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 allo...
He would view each position as a test of character, effort, endurance, and will. He would keep nothing in reserve for some will-o-the-wisp future. Rather, he would regard each job as a pivotal test, 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.
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...
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,
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 ackn...
Such scathing criticisms moved Southern leaders to equally fierce defenses. They proclaimed slavery a positive good rather than a mere necessity, of immense benefit to whites and blacks alike.
Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the dog & giving his master some share of the resentment.
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages of his letters with talk of authors and their creations....
As a fit and necessary military measure for effecting this object, [preservation of the Union] I, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do order and declare that on the firs...