Word: stimson
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...quality that makes his reproofs most impressive is his own character, which never stoops to injustice, a kind of unshakeable integrity that is so great it impresses itself on all those who work with him. (Said one: "Every time I see Henry L. Stimson I think I see God hovering over his left shoulder. And when he rises in righteous indignation he's a holy terror...
Enemies on the Hill. Congressmen do not like to have God looking over anybody's shoulders, and one of Henry Stimson's weaknesses as Secretary of War is that the coldness of his logic and the strength of his character make too little allowance for practical politics...
...bitter days of early 1933, when Hoover left the White House, Stimson, then Secretary of State, was one of the members of the outgoing Cabinet who went to consult with the incoming President and Secretary of State. He remained on good terms with Cordell Hull thereafter. There was never any real break in U.S. foreign policy from Stimson's regime to Hull's regime, and it was ultimately Stimson's support of Roosevelt's foreign policy that drew him back into the Cabinet...
Republican Internationalist. This is something that Republican isolationists have never understood. Henry Stimson belongs to the now almost forgotten tradition of Republican internationalists in which John Hay, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes were his predecessors. A large part of his career was in the service of that tradition...
...left his profitable private law practice when Calvin Coolidge sent him to Nicaragua to straighten out a tangle that Marine occupation had never quite unraveled. Stimson's remedy: an election supervised by the Marines. In a few weeks politeness was restored (as the Marines have...