Christopher Cox

“When building something with as many moving parts as a brand-new restaurant, each small step along the way feels like a victory.”
― Christopher Cox, The Deadline Effect: Inside Elite Organizations That Have Mastered the Ticking Clock

“On Wilson’s orders, 14,000 U.S. troops were now in Russia waging an undeclared war in defense of “what the Russian people themselves desire,” as he had put it, fighting in league with the White Russian resistance to the Bolshevik Red Army in northwestern Russia, and in Siberia in the Far East. Wilson’s friend Irvin Cobb, editor of the late Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, warned that “Great Britain is practically bankrupt and its economic condition is desperate.”
― Christopher Cox, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn