Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with girls'stories such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
When I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch,...
And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
Fishwife,
Days,
Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s Mars, eventually became secretary
Alacrity,
That very afternoon, Taft fell seriously ill with what doctors mistakenly diagnosed as dengue fever. He remained bedridden for ten days, and when he returned to work, severe rectal pain prevented him...
In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.
That Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.
Still, Roosevelt noted, it was not always easy to strike the just middle, and he inevitably made mistakes.
Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside,
Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. But, he famously asserted, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.
It is surprising, Roosevelt explained, how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.
If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me,...