"I most sincerely commiserate with such a person but I do not know how to help him."
Theodore Roosevelt
From Author In-Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote by Craig Fehrman, quoting from an essay written by TR, regarding those, who unlike Teddy, did not read books.
Fehrman later writes of a visit by author Edith Wharton, a friend of Roosevelt, to the White House:
"That day Roosevelt complained that no one in his administration knew Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . He had tried to joke with his secretary of the Navy, telling him, "Mr Secretary, what I say three times is true." All he got in response was groveling. "Mr President", the secretary replied, "it would never for a moment have occurred to me to impugn your veracity."
Tying back to yesterday's post, as I read the sections in the book on Woodrow Wilson, I realized WW had at least a passing resemblance to Gustavo Fring, owner of the Los Pollos Hermanos fast food chain and successful meth distributor on the side, from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. This is the content you come to THC for!
No comments:
Post a Comment