Tough Tarbell Trivia

[RJNorton]

I am lost on this one, Rob. Wild guess - does it represent Ida's desire to have more rural sereneness in her life?

[Rob Wick]

Actually, Roger, David got it. It was an illustration from Henry Wing's book "A Reporter for Lincoln."

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Rob

[David Lockmiller]

(11-14-2024 08:29 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Actually, Roger, David got it. It was an illustration from Henry Wing's book "A Reporter for Lincoln."

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Rob

I remember that there was so much chaos going on around them onshore that President Lincoln suggested that they get into a rowboat and row far enough out that they would be able to have a conversation.

I made a small effort to find this post using the search term "Wing" for my previous posts, but failed.

[AussieMick]

Similar to a CEO turning their mobile off and not looking at I T devices for a day, Puts responsibility on subordinates and enables CEO to focus on what really matters.

[David Lockmiller]

(11-15-2024 02:26 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  Similar to a CEO turning their mobile off and not looking at I T devices for a day, Puts responsibility on subordinates and enables CEO to focus on what really matters.

That's why the CEO's are paid the "big bucks," because they need "to focus on what really matters," ROI -return on INVESTMENT.

I think that this nation needs another CEO like President Abraham Lincoln.

The following is a post that I made in February, 2020:

I recently read the following quotation from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals” at page 664.

As the election drew close, Lincoln told a visitor: “I would rather be defeated with the soldier vote behind me than to be elected without it.”

The source of this quote is Ida M. Tarbell, “A Reporter for Lincoln: Story of Henry E. Wing, Soldier and Newspaperman” (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927), p. 70.

Ida Tarbell wrote more on page 70:

The strong and hostile winds of [public] opinion which had been blowing now for weeks became by August [1864] furious, biting gales, converging to one point—the President. He lived in a whirlwind of opposition, a man without a friend, his opponents confident, contemptuous; Congress sneering and hindering; intrigue in his cabinet, dismay in his party. Even his best and oldest friends came to tell him in solemn tones that his defeat was certain unless he should compromise—delay a draft, consider peace overtures, something to soothe the country’s agony until after election.

“Deceive as to my intention?” he retorted, scornfully refusing.

Lincoln’s deepest concern in August of 1864 was not civilian and official opposition, however strong and bitter it might be. He was more and more concerned with the army’s view of things.

“Henry,” he said in one of their long night talks in this dreary period, “I would rather be defeated with the soldier vote behind me than to be elected without it.”