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...field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since they were sure to get sloppy with mud. A favorite pastime was to hack at Gen. Wood with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant a great lust for anything new, active, original or strenuous...
...field. And yet he could not shake his disdain for an institution that despite its resources had produced only one of the three men most prominent in American colonialism—Secretary of War (later State) Elihu Root, Philippines Governor (later President) William Howard Taft and Governor of Cuba Gen. Leonard Wood...
...Saturday, 800 Taliban soldiers surrendered to the forces of Gen. Rashid Dostum, a leading commander of the Northern Alliance. But on Sunday, the prisoners decided to rebel, grabbing weapons from an armory at the local fort. At least two Americans were trapped in the fort when it happened and at least one is dead. American and British forces have now joined in trying to quell the attack. Perry is on the scene and provided these details via satellite phone to TIME Newsdesk editor John Flowers as the fighting raged...
While “The West Wing” racked up awards, the Associated Press reported that more ground forces were being sent into Afghanistan. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that “We’re setting in for the long haul.” Of course, there’s no word yet on how long that might take or what might happen after the Taliban falls...