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University Press Publishes Roosevelt Letters...
...Teddy Roosevelt could not understand why Harvard’s football team always lost to Yale, since he didn’t believe that the Elis had more “natural athletic talent” than The Crimson. Such comments as this fill his letters published today by the University Press...
...undergraduate, Roosevelt also had complaints about the University which sounds like those of today. He could not stomach the food at the Commons: “It is gradually getting uneatable; almost all the fellows I know are leaving...
...Lacked leaders? Patton's leaders in 1943 were Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall. Winston Churchill was also on the team. Patton was a fierce field commander and an almost mystical student of military history, but headlong narcissism impaired his sight from time to time. He had trouble judging those in power over him. We all do. Either we are infuriated by people who outrank us, or we overvalue those in whom we have invested hopes. Trusting leaders involves risks, acts of faith...
...other day, on the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, I drove over to Hyde Park to look, again, at Springwood, FDR's family estate on the Hudson. What impressed me was its modesty, its homeliness, even its shabbiness here and there. In the upstairs rooms, in FDR's bedroom itself, there lingers an atmosphere of haunting plainness. A bed. A few chairs. A bureau. A primitive version of a telephone hot line installed on the wall near the head of the bed. A few mementos. Down the hall is the dumbwaiter by which FDR hauled himself...