Henry Villard Quotes
No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
Villard, Henry. Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1832-1900. Vol. 1, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904, p. 169.
The ‘wise and masterly inactivity’ phrase was first used by James Mackintosh.
Towards the end of World War I, an expedition of 7,000 American troops was sent to Siberia with vague and confused instructions regarding the their role in the conflict between the "white" and "red" Russians:
Appears in early Hindu religious literature.
Flint had declared bankruptcy and an Adminisrator was Appointed to work with the Governor & Mayor to administer the city, To save money, the administrator decided to close down the Flint water treatment facility and to use river water instead. The decision was a disaster in that the river watter interacted with the old lead piping of the city and leached lead into the drinking water thus in evvect poisoning it. The Governor and thestate EPA were slow and passive to deal with the situation. The fedral government as an interim step supplied bottled water and this task force was appointed.
Henry Villard was an American journalist and financier who was an early president of the Northern Pacific Railway.