Elihu Root
Elihu Root
ELIHU ROOT might have been so much publicly and has been so little that a moral must hang somewhere upon his public career.
Elihu Root: Wilson
Distrust spoiled the mission to Russia during the war. The Russians distrusted him while he was with them. President Wilson distrusted his…
Elihu Root: Roosevelt
He is always someone else's mouthpiece and publicly he is chiefly remembered as Mr. Roosevelt's mouthpiece. When he came to New York and…
Elihu Root: England
Until that time there had been for us only two nations in the world, the United States and England, the country with which we had fought…
Elihu Root: Lodge
The Senate is a body in which you grow old, ungracefully waiting for dead men's shoes. The infinite capacity for taking pains which…
Elihu Root: Pauncefote
The history of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty is interesting and unfamiliar. Attaching Pauncefote's name to the treaty was a delicate act of…