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Like Ickes, Wallace was a nominal Republican; also like Ickes, he was unknown to the president-elect before his appointment.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
This means that a leader must lead from the front. He cannot be like the apocryphal British politician who we quoted earlier: “Of course I follow the party. After all, I am their leader.”
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
King George VI told his own diary, “I cannot yet think of Winston as P.M.” The king encountered Lord Halifax on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, through which Halifax had royal permission to walk in his commute from his home in Euston Square to the Foreign Office. “I met Halifax in the garden,” the king wrote, “& I told him I was sorry not to have
... See moreErik Larson • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
President Eisenhower numbered many titans of the oil industry among his friends. He was as indebted to the industry for past campaign contributions as was Johnson—and, as he prepared for his re-election campaign, he was as hopeful of future contributions. He was philosophically committed to reducing, not increasing, government regulation of
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
At the start, the situation had been complicated by the fact that the so-called Cloak and Dagger boys, under the control of a mysterious Colonel Grand and the Foreign Office, were involved in this adventure. But it had now been decided that they should break away from the War Office and go off on their own. This left Colonel Holland with a
... See moreStuart Macrae • Winston Churchill's Toyshop
At their hands, the rhetoric of one-nation or national conservatism is a cipher for the free-market fundamentalism of regulatory divergence and global trade deals, combined with social regression and culture wars.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
By the time Menachem Begin took office in the late 1970s, no single country was buying more Israeli arms than South Africa.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
Johnson maintained his public posture of knowing nothing about the tactics being used. “As President, I don’t try to involve myself in the procedure of the Senate,” he said during a press conference in May. “I think Senator Mansfield and Senator Humphrey are much closer to the situation than I am. I am not trying to dodge you. I just don’t know.”
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