Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
I pass my days in a state of exasperation. First, with the fools who do not want any of the things that ought to be done, and second, with the equally obnoxious fools who insist upon so much that they cannot get anything done.
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States (Republican, NY) Letter to his son Kermit, January 17, 1903
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Her then opponent in the Democratic Primary race for the Presidential numeration, Barak Obama, was captivating many voters by describing all the reforms and changes he would make if he were president. Clinton, with more experience had, as first lady, tried to pass a Health Reform Bill and various special interests mobilized to stop it. The Democratic voters chose Obama. He passed a health reform bill narrowly, but was able to do little else that he had promised. Hillary was right.
Response to question of how great innovations develop.
Berg, one of the early OSS recruits, was a brilliant loner and somewhat paranoid. His early modus operandi was to work with no partners, never as part of a team, and only report to the head of the agency and a deputy or two and otherwise never reveal where he was or how he did things. Berg however was brilliant and multilingual, and even was able to have discussions with the best Physicist left in Germany--Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg. Berg determined that Heisenberg was not working on an atomic bomb with some clever technical discussions and listening to some of Heisenberg's presentations. Therefore, following his orders, he did not assassinate the German Scientist whuch he was prepared to do. Other than OSS officials, many in America did not believe that the Germans would not have their best scientist working on Nuclear Energy. However, Hitler was biased against what he called "Jewish Sceince" and bet on jet planes. After the war, The CIA reorganized the American espionage effort and there was no place for Berg’s old school style.
That decade was a particularly contentious one with respect to American politics. Ideologues tended to dominate much of the political rhetoric. Chambliss, a conservative Republican. had just been criticized by one of the non-elected right wing ideologues for having conversations with a Democratic senator about the framework that might be used for a bipartisan effort to deal with the rapidly growing entitlements fraction of the national budget. Chambliss was not deterred by the fanatics in his own party.
Cromwell to the Rump Parliament: These same words were used by Tory insurgent Leopold Amery in 1940 calling for the resignation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or his initials T. R., was an American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He previously served as 33rd governor of New York from 1899 to 1900 and the 25th vice president of the United States from March to September 1901. Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies.
