I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
“This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.”
“By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?”