Major [William] McKinley visited me. He is on a stumping tour.... I criticized the bloody-shirt course of the canvass. It seems to... me to be bad "politics," and of no use.... It is a stale issue. An increasing number of people are interested in good relations with the South.... Two ways are open to succeed in the South: 1. A division of the white voters. 2. Education of the ignorant. Bloody-shirt utterances prevent division.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the pres...idential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Bible is good enough for me, just the old book under which I was brought up. I do not want notes or criticisms, or explanation...s about authorship or origins, or even cross- references. I do not need, or understand them, and they confuse me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »