People Will Love Him (theodore Roosevelt) For

People Will Love Him (theodore Roosevelt) For The Enemies He Has Made.

(from John Hay's Diary) “the President Never Appeared To Better Advantage In The World,” Hay Proudly Noted In His Diary. “though He Knows How Immense Is The Danger To Himself From The Unreasoning Anger Of That Committee, He Never Cringed To Them For An Instant. He Stood Where He Thought He Was Right And Crushed Them With His Candid Logic.

Politicians Generally Form Alliances And Not Friendships. Individuals And Institutions Achieve Their Ends Through Continual Barter. But Deals Are Not Bonds. Indeed, Intense Emotional Involvement With Anything - With Issues, Ideology, A Woman, Even A Family - Can Be A Handicap, Not Only Consuming Valuable Time, But More Importantly, Reducing Flexibility And The Capacity For Detached Calculation Needed To Take Maximum Advantage Of Continually Changing Circumstances.

Lyndon Johnson Is Still The Most Formidable, Fascinating, Frustrating, Irritating Individual I Think I've Ever Known In My Entire Life. He Was Huge, A Huge Character, Not Only Standing Six Feet Four, But When You Talked To Him, He Violated The Normal Human Space Between People. He Was A Great Storyteller. The Problem Was That Half His Stories, I Discovered, Weren't True.

I'd Like To Think That What My Style Of Writing Is, Is An Attempt Not So Much To Judge The Characters That I'm Writing About, To Expose Them, To Label Them, To Stereotype Them, But Instead To Make Them Come Alive For The Reader With All Their Strengths And Their Flaws Intact.