Word: philanderer
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Foreign affairs seem particularly apt to bring out a presidential capacity for hypocrisy. Kindly William McKinley, who used U.S. troops to suppress the fledgling Philippine republic in 1898, said he had prayerfully searched his soul before deciding it was his duty to "civilize and Christianize" the Filipinos. Theodore Roosevelt, who...
In his business affairs, Morgan was a man accustomed to handling things personally. One of his biggest objections to the way Roosevelt had sprung the Northern Securities suit was that the President had not quietly tipped him in advance. Large sums of borrowed money were at stake, and the abrupt...
Randall Jarrell never received the attention given his flamboyantly talented and troubled friends. Robert Lowell's struggles with manic-depression and mental institutions found their way into his later, confessional poetry. John Berryman's alcoholism was legendary while he lived, and his suicide made headlines. In contrast, Jarrell refused to...
The obvious example of T.R.'s "Never Around" approach to statesmanship was the Panama Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow...
Such a current, Philander thinks, could explain the unusual spate of El Ninos that marked the first part of this decade. Think of the cycle as one of the strings on the climate's violin, he suggests. "When something changes the tension on the string, the frequency of the vibration...