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The cook and his men

26 Friday May 2017

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Quote of the day, Theodore (Ted) Roosevelt

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One of the many advertisements soliciting bakers and cooks in the early months of America’s entry in the war.

One does not find it in the drill-book that the way to keep coffee and slum hot after it left the rolling kitchens is to take out the boilers with the food in them, wrap these boilers in old blankets, put them on the two-wheeled machine-gun carts, which can go nearly anywhere, and work forward to the troops in this way. This is just one instance, one trick of the trade. It is something that only training and experience can supply, and yet it is of most vital importance. I have known divisions to help feed the more recently arrived divisions on their right and left, when all have the same facilities to start with. I have known new troops, fighting by an older division, to be forty hours without food when men of the older division had been eating every day.

–Lieutenant Colonel Theodore (Ted) Roosevelt, Jr.
Average Americans, 1919

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The American Machiavelli

25 Friday Nov 2016

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Quote of the day

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Annapolis, Maryland, 25 June 1937: Congressional and Cabinet leadership boards to meet FDR at the Jefferson Island Democratic Club, left to right: House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring; Secretary of State Cordell Hull; Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead; and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace

Annapolis, Maryland, 25 June 1937: Congressional and Cabinet leadership boards to meet FDR at the Jefferson Island Democratic Club; left to right: House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, House Speaker William B. Bankhead, and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace

Roosevelt knew how to use these men for his own purposes; he resembled Hawthorne’s picture of Andrew Jackson as one who who compelled every man who came within his reach to be his tool, and the more cunning the man, the sharper the tool.

–James McGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox: Vol. 1, 1882-1940

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Quote of the day

19 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Joseph Roswell Hawley, Quote of the day

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We admire those who risk their lives in battle, but sometimes forget that patient endurance is as heroic as bravery in battle.

–Stephen W. Walkley Jr.; History of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Hawley’s Brigade, Tenth Army Corps, 1861-1865

Quote of the day

07 Wednesday Aug 2013

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Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization; 6 January 1872

Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization; 6 January 1872

Except for his stealing, Tweed would have been a great man; but had he been honest, he wouldn’t have been Tweed and would not have left nearly so great a mark.

–Kenneth D. Ackerman, Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York

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Quote of the day

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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One of the most tender and compassionate of men, he was forced to give orders which cost thousands of lives; by nature a man of order and thrift, he saw the unutterable waste and destruction which he could not prevent. The cry of the widow and the orphan was always in his ears; the awful responsibility resting upon him as the protector of an imperilled republic kept him true to his duty, but could not make him unmindful of the intimate details of that vast sum of human misery involved in civil war.

–John Hay on Lincoln

The quote of the day

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Baseball, Quote of the day

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. . . during this annual rite in which the National Pastime returns belongs to David Eisenhower:

Following baseball is like keeping tabs on the neighbors. Attending a game is like dropping by for a visit to see how everyone is getting along. Sustaining interest is easy because of the ever-present potential for an abrupt change of fortune.

—Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

I am right now listening to the Indians-Bluejays opener from Toronto on MLBTV. So good to have baseball back.

Quote of the day

24 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Monuments and Statuary, Quote of the day

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In the evenings when Washington was quiet, I would often go to the Lincoln Memorial and talk to Mr. Lincoln. In those days you could drive right up and park at the foot of the steps of the memorial . . . I loved that majestic seated figure surrounded by his eloquent words. I found him to be a wonderful listener.

–Cynthia Helms, An Intriguing Life: A Memoir of War, Washington, and Marriage to an American Spymaster

Quote of the day

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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Peter BoyleYou don’t understand anything about this. You have no idea what it feels like to stand on a battlefield pretending to fight for something you believe in.

–Everybody Loves Raymond’s Frank Barone on Civil War reenacting

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Quote of the day

10 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by Keith Muchowski in Joseph Roswell Hawley, Quote of the day

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Harriet Ward Foote Hawley

Harriet Ward Foote Hawley

I do not believe we shall ever conquer till we proclaim emancipation; and yet I suppose there are people in the world who think President Lincoln knows more than Mrs. Hawley.

–Mrs. Harriet Ward Foote Hawley, outspoken wife of Joseph Hawley in a private letter; July 3, 1862

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Quote of the Day

12 Wednesday Dec 2012

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There was a cheering crowd at the Auburn train station in August 1870 to send Seward and the Risleys on their way. In Salt Lake City, Brigham Young introduced them to eleven of his sixteen wives and almost all of his forty-nine living childrem.

–Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man

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