There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business.
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The use of the word great is so frequently applied to numbers of Presidents that I myself, having once written a series of, I think, extremely poor essays, I regret to say, on the first sixteen Presidents of the United States, I wouldn't try in my own mind to try to fix the place in history of any President until he had been dead for at least fifty years.David Bruce
I was told that President Truman was at times scornful of what he considered the inability of Governor Stevenson to make up his mind whether he would run or not. That's gossip as far as I'm concerned.
David Bruce
The problem with wind power is you don't know when it's going to come and when it's going to go.
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I've heard a great many flattering things about Roosevelt, but never that he was notable for his skill in administration.
David Bruce
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.
David Bruce
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