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Book: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside,
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  2. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Largely to gain Nellie's approbation, Will began to carry a book as a matter of course. "Trollope is a great favorite of mine because of the realistic every day tone which one finds in every line he writes," he told her. "His heroes have failings human character is heir to, and we like them none the less on that account.
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  3. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Everything was of interest to him," marveled the French ambassador, Jean Jules Jusserand, "people of today, people of yesterday, animals, minerals, stones, stars, the past, the future.
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  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    As Roosevelt took his place in the open carriage leading the procession, an additional surprise lay in store for him: 150 members of his Rough Rider unit, whom he had led so brilliantly in the Spanish-American War, appeared on horseback to serve as his escort of honor.
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.
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  6. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    The choice of Blaine "speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party," he ruefully continued. "It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool." Still,
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  7. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.
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  8. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    It's a bully speech," encouraged Roosevelt in reply.
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  9. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.
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  11. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles,
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  12. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, "but not one who will interest you more.
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