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...disciplined character. His gaiety, his spontaneity, were deceptive. Only a man who knew what is meant by the 'iron string of self-reliance.' and the self-discipline which makes that string sound clear when it is fairly struck, could have overcome the paralyzing and crippling handicap of his young manhood. Behind the facade of cheerful health there must always have been a heritage of pain; his ease in public must have been earned by a stern asceticism in private...
Except for a vague affair with a mysterious Belinda, whose importance in his life Bowers doubts, and his attempted seduction of a married woman, Jefferson's young manhood passed without romance known to history. His marriage to the young widow, Martha Skelton, was happy...
...pleasures, the chief of which he considers a national duty. He once said: "In my youth and manhood, I made a nation. Now in my declining years, I make men for its population." Nobody knows just how many sons he has sired; the usual estimate is 40. In masculine Arabia, daughters are not counted...
...sickly brown eyes. So far, the only evidence of his age is his growing fondness for talking about the prowess of his youth. A favorite campfire story is about the time when he was wounded in the groin during a desert raid. To spike any calumnies against his manhood, he selected a maiden, married her on the spot, consummated the marriage that night...
...Rayburn did not have too much to say. He spoke briefly, plainly, and the House, for once, kept still and listened. Reminding the members that America's young manhood was making "terrible sacrifices" overseas, he admonished his colleagues: "Let us not act here today, tomorrow, or throughout the coming years in any fashion so that any returning soldier may have reason to think that we have not, while he was offering the supreme sacrifice . . . done our full, our total duty...