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Harry Lembeck
Taking On Theodore Roosevelt shows us a TR not generally known. Part of what made him a great man and great President was his ability to take on a problem and deal with it right away, before it festered and became even bigger. Howard University professor Kelly Miller, a Roosevelt contemporary, wrote, “He reaches conclusions and settles issues with a swiftness and self-satisfying certainty that startle the more cautious statesmen who rely upon the slower processes of reason and deliberation. He has diagnosed the case, prescribed the remedy, and cured, or killed, the patient before the ordinary physician has finished feeling the pulse.” In Brownsville, this tendency led to a mistake, a big mistake, and he double-downed by refusing to see the error and pressing on to its unfortunate end. Great men can make great mistakes. This was Theodore Roosevelt's.
Harry Lembeck
I stop writing. But I still think about what it is I'm writing. In a few days the it comes to me, and then I can put it down on paper.
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