Word: stimsonisms
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...messages of condolence and tribute-from President Truman, from generals and ministers and old soldiers-spoke mostly of Stimson's latter-day achievements. But that was primarily because Henry Stimson had outlived those who knew his beginnings in public life, back in the days of Teddy Roosevelt. It was Teddy who had picked the 38-year-old Stimson out of a prosperous Manhattan law practice and made him a trust-busting U.S. attorney for southern New York...
Four years later, when T.R. ran Stimson for governor of New York, his candidate was defeated in the same Democratic landslide that installed a 28-year-old freshman politician named Franklin Roosevelt in the New York legislature. The Democrats ruined Stimson's unemotional campaign by dubbing him "the icicle," and never again did he run for office...
...Mantle. But he was always ready to serve. William Howard Taft, the second of six Presidents who called upon him, in 1911 made him Secretary of War. Then came Wilson and World War I. Out of office, Henry Stimson at 49 decided to become a soldier himself, trained at Plattsburg (which he had helped set up), went overseas as an artillery lieutenant colonel to command a battalion on the Western Front and win a promotion to full colonel...
Somewhere in the next years-when Coolidge and Hoover gave him high position-the mantle of elder statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
...that the unchecked Japanese invasion of Manchuria (in 1931) held the threat of a new war. When Manchuria led to Ethiopia and Ethiopia to the Rhineland and war in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt urged the old man to forget his Republican leanings and become his Secretary of War. Elder Statesman Stimson went back to Washington...