Henry Adams Quotes
[Describing Theodore Roosevelt:] ... pure act.
Henry Adams, 1838-1918, Politician, Historian & Writer, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907
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Obama had been commonly called a socialist by the extreme right even though his positions and statements were against socialism and he opposed major tenets of socialism like government ownership of utilities, banking and heavy industry. Obama scheduled this speech in a location in which TR had spoken in favor of his reforms. And he reminded the audience and the nation that the right wing had tried to tarnish Roosevelt by labeling him a socialist.
that MacArthur should command the final assault on Japan. The Atomic Bomb later made the final assault unnecessary. Almost every officer who worked with MacArthur—except those on his personal staff—found him an overbearing egomaniac who was militarily capable, but nowhere near as capable as he saw himself. In success he rarely shared the limelight with anyone else, but would rarely take the blame when things were not as successful as all had hoped. Stimson and President Roosevelt had decided that MacArthur should lead the invasion on Japan, and discovered all this hostility amongst MacArthur’s colleagues. It was much easier to place MacArthur in charge of Post War Japan where he would not work that closely with so many senior officers throughout the services. He did a brilliant job governing Japan but still alienated other senior officers. MacArthur was so egotistical that he thought that he could run the country far better than FDR and in 1944 thought of running against the President.
Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents.
