Leadership Ability Quotes
McGovern partisans were hostile to the Congressman in his own home district:
Asked if there was still much racial prejudice in major league baseball:. The remark led to his resignation.
He was very critical of Arraham Lincoln even though he was a Republican. Many percieved that Lincoln's administration could not get anything done. Lincoln might have lost the 1864 campaign but for the great victory that General Sherman's troops had in taking Atlanta. This changed a lot of mionds about Lincoln's War strategy. Actually, in the first 2 years of the Civil War, Lincoln could not get his generals to fight his preferred kind of war until he appointed Grant who brought Sherman to high command.
In response to a newspaper editor who told Jackson some of his friends advocated him for the Presidency:
While Jefferson appreciated Jackson’s military prowess, that was about all.
Referring to the 1988 presidential campaign:
4 years later Roosevelt was so disgusted with Taft that he ran against him in the Republican Primary and the General Election where he polled more votes than Taft but they both lost to Woodrow Wilson when the Republican vote was split.
