Sublime

No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.

Roosevelt empowered Garner to work out a compromise. When it evolved—an agreement to recommit the court-reorganization bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee with the understanding that when it reappeared on the Senate floor, all mention of the Supreme Court would have been removed—it was an almost unmitigated defeat for the President, one which al

Throughout the summer of 1951, the Truman administration pressed the British to negotiate. Acheson told Franks that Mossadegh represented “a very deep revolution, national in character, which was sweeping not only Iran but the entire Middle East.”31 President Truman wrote Attlee that “negotiations should be entered into at once” to prevent a worsen

FDR, for his part, needed practical political guidance, and Louis Howe provided it. Except for a basic attachment to the Democratic party, Howe was indifferent to ideology. Yet he was an astute tactician with a litmus ability to distinguish a sound political move from one that was likely to cause trouble.

When a State is threatened by serious dangers, the people frequently succeeds in selecting the citizens who are the most able to save