...What can we learn from Marshall? General Marshall’s staff leadership and management offer some valuable lessons. He handled his staff with absolute efficiency and got more from them than they expected they could give. What made Marshall such a successful staff leader? As important, what can we learn from his leadership and how can we apply it today? At least five aspects of Marshall’s staff leadership deserve special attention. In each case, adapting Marshall’s techniques can help us make better decisions and become more efficient as a staff leader. Using the Staff as a Counterpoint, Marshall was an exceptionally knowledgeable Chief of Staff. Throughout his career, he aggressively sought to learn every aspect and detail of his profession. Due to his own hard work, a diversity of demanding assignments, and effective mentorship by others, Marshall became an expert in many areas. As Chief of Staff, he thoroughly knew the Army’s strengths and limitations from the squad up. With such depth and breath of knowledge about the Army, some staff leaders might be tempted to ignore or discard the advice of their staffs. Other staff leaders might limit their staff to the execution of their preconceived ideas. Still others might view their staff as an impediment to their ideas. Marshall rejected these approaches. Marshall relied heavily on his staff, but not in an information gathering role. Rather, he used them as a sounding board. They broadened his already extensive knowledge...
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...The election of 1912 was a four-way race with a voting outcome the US has not seen since. The race began when William Howard Taft received the Republican nomination for re-election over Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt had previously been President from 1901-1909; his first term inherited due to the in-office death of William McKinley. Upon election into his second term (first full term), Roosevelt vowed to not run for office again. Fast forward to 1912, the end of the first term of Roosevelt’s hand picked successor William Howard taft, and Teddy was back in the race. After losing the Rebuplican nomination to Taft, who received more support from the conservative side of the party, Roosevelt had a convention of his own and started the Progressive Party. Naturally, Roosevelt got the nomination. With Woodrow Wilson receiving the Democrat’s nomination for election, and Eugene V. Debs running under the increasingly loud Socialist umbrella, the stage was set for the 1912 Presidential Election. “The four way contest between Taft, Roosevelt, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, and Socialist Eugene V. Debs became a national debate on the relationship between political and economic freedom in the age of big business. On one end of the political spectrum stood Taft, who stressed that economic individualism could remian the foundation of the solial order so long as government and private entreprenuers cooperated in addressing social ills. At the other end was Debs. Relatively few Americans supported...
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...Progressive Party August 7, 1912, President Theodora Roosevelt delivered his first Inaugural Address speech which was title “Who Is a Progressive?” (Witt, D.P., 1915-1968). The Progressive Party was mostly focus on the American Financial systems getting back together and making necessary modification. The progressive party back in 1912 was called the political party in the Unites States and it was created by a split with Republican Party. The split was created by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to the Office of President William Howard Taft and withdrew his delegation out of the entire conference (Mowry, 1946-1960).After that the party became popular as the Bull Moose party , and later the party symbolized and later Roosevelt showed off that he was Just as strong as a bull moose from the wild. The Progressive Party they have delicate ourselves for the fulfillment now the duty will lies upon the peoples, and their fathers to help maintain the government for the people. Therefore, the radical changes the relationship that the federal government now to the individual the Americans is within the Progressive Era: How can two great American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson destroy the Constitutional of the people freedom (Napolitano, Dec.12, 2012). Although in the 20th century we saw assault on individual liberties was both unconstitutional and unprecedented in our American History Judge Napolitano showed how the policies of the two president...
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...Were Republican ideas the main reason for the fact that there was a Republican president and a Republican majority in congress from 1921-31? From 1921 to 1931, the American political scene was dominated by the Republican Party. This spell of success came after the 8 years of presidency served by the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. The first Republican president of this period was Republican senator of Ohio Warren G. Harding who was elected president in 1920 by a landslide. The second president of this time was Calvin Coolidge. Like Harding, he was an economic conservative who lacked charisma but made up for it with a strong reputation for personal respectability. The republican who succeeded Coolidge, was Herbert Hoover. Hoover’s economic ideology differed from that of his predecessors, Harding and Coolidge. He believed neither in a traditional laissez-faire approach nor in economic planning and state direction. Instead, he favoured the idea of voluntary cooperation between the private sector and the government. I believe that Republican ideas were the main reason for Republican domination of government between 1921 and 1931. Harding and Coolidge believed in a laissez-faire style of government meaning that it was not the function of government to interfere in people’s lives by enacting legislation unless America’s vital interests were threatened. So, for example, businesses were left alone to organise their own affairs and workers were free to bargain for their wages at the work...
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...Who Made Rizal Our Foremost National Hero, and Why? BY: ESTEBAN A. DE OCAMPO Dr. Jose Rizal Mercado y Alonso, or simply Jose Rizal (1861-1896), is unquestionably the greatest hero & martyr of our nation. The day of his birth & the day of his execution are fittingly commemorated by all classes of our people throughout the length & breadth of this country & even by Filipinos & their friends abroad. His name is a byword in every Filipino home while his picture adorns the postage stamp & paper money of widest circulation. No other Filipino hero can surpass Rizal in the number of towns, barrios, & streets named after him; in the number of educational institutions, societies, & trade names that bear his name; in the number of persons, both Filipinos & foreigners, who were named "Rizal" or "Rizalina" because of their parents’ admiration for the Great Malayan; & in the number of laws, Executive Orders & Proclamations of the Chief Executive, & bulletins, memoranda, & circulars of both the bureaus of public & private schools. Who is the Filipino writer & thinker whose teachings & noble thoughts have been frequently invoked & quoted by authors & public speakers on almost all occasions? None but Rizal. And why is this so? Because as biographer Rafael Palma (1) said, "The doctrines of Rizal are not for one epoch but for all epochs. They are as valid today as they were yesterday. It cannot be said that because the political...
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...Roosevelt gathered a bunch of volunteers and formed a volunteer cavalry regiment that became known as the "Rough Riders". Roosevelt and the Rough Riders became famous war heroes for their charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba. After the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York. He became known as a fierce fighter of corruption within the government. In 1900 he became Vice-President as running mate to President William McKinley. In September of 1901, President McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became the 26th president of the United States. At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to become president. He won a second term in 1904. As president, Roosevelt worked hard to improve the quality of life for the average American. He took on large corporations that had formed monopolies or trusts. These trusts enabled companies to keep wages low and prices high. Roosevelt broke up many of these trusts and earned the nickname "the trustbuster". Roosevelt died in 1919 when his health failed. His health was never quite the same after his youngest son, Quentin, died in World War I a year...
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...As the 1800s came closer and the beginning of a new century appeared, America experienced many problems due to rapid urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. As a result, many Americans found it very hard to make changes in society to improve life for everyone. These Americans were known as Progressives and they pushed for reform aggressively. One of the most famous Progressives was our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt. He prompted reform in many different areas and as a result created his own political party, The Progressive Party, nicknamed The Bull Moose Party. The Progressives wanted to control many economical issues that were impacting society. Its platform included women's suffrage, tariff reduction, stricter regulations on businesses, a ban on child labor, an eight-hour work day, a federal workers' compensation program, and the direct election of senators. Political machines - powerful organizations linked to political parties - controlled local government in many cities. In each ward, or political district, within a city, a machine representative controlled jobs and services. This representative was the political boss. The bosses gained votes for their parties by doing favors for the people such as offering turkey dinners and summer boat rides, providing jobs for immigrants, and helping needy families. A political boss was often a citizen’s closest link with local government. Although they did help people, many bosses were dishonest. Robert la Follette...
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...XV. Taft Splits the Republican Party A. Two main issues split the Republican party: (1) the tariff and (2) conservation of lands. 1. To lower the tariff and fulfill a campaign promise, Taft and the House passed a moderately reductive bill, but the Senate, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, tacked on lots of upward revisions, and thus, when the Payne-Aldrich Bill passed, it betrayed Taft’s promise, incurred the wrath of his party (drawn mostly from the Midwest), and outraged many people. a. Old Republicans were high-tariff; new/Progressive Republicans were low tariff. b. Taft even foolishly called it the best bill that the Republican party ever passed. 2. While Taft did establish the Bureau of Mines to control mineral resources, his participation in the Ballinger-Pinchot quarrel of 1910 hurt him. In the quarrel, Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger opened public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska to corporate development and was criticized by Forestry chief Gifford Pinchot, who was then fired by Taft. a. Old Republicans favored using the lands for business; new/Progressive Republicans favored conservation of lands. XVI. The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture A. In 1911, the National Progressive Republican League was formed, with La Follette as its leader, but in February 1912, TR began dropping hints that he wouldn’t mind being nominated by the Republicans, his reason being that he had meant no third consecutive term, not a third term overall. B. Rejected...
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... Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P.T. Barnum, was the man who founded the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Barnum was a shrewd businessman who helped shape American entertainment. He also provided a way for people who were generally shunned by society to make a living. On January 1, 1842, Barnum opened the American Museum on the lower Broadway in New York City. In the beginning, Barnum’s used the museum to showcase the fine arts, including literature, paintings, and music. Initially, Barnum’s museum wasn’t well received by the public. At this time in history, entertainment was confined to whatever was available to the person in their own home and sometimes with neighbors. Entertainment was seen as a private thing for people to enjoy on their own. Even though his museum challenged traditional beliefs about entertainment, Barnum was determined to make it a success. He began promoting the museum as entertainment for the entire family. As time went on, Barnum’s American Museum because a place for increasing one's knowledge of fine arts, music, literature, and marvels of nature. The museum eventually became a showcase of natural curiosities like a stuffed 2 headed goat alongside historic and artistic exhibitions and it is considered the first successful museum in the United States. When the museum burned down on July 13, 1865, it had grown to include 850,000 exhibits and expanded through four conjoined buildings. It also included wax figures were added, as well as taxidermy exhibits...
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...American life was pretty crummy. People were controlled by corrupt governments and monopolies it was extremely difficult to get a job so many people were living in the streets. This all began to change with the election of Theodore Roosevelt and his Square Deal. The square deal aimed to help with the labor ,business, consumion , and environment of the American people. Theodore passed many laws to improve america's corruption such as the sherman antitrust act which outlawed monopolies and the meat inspection act which monitorized the food industry which he was inspired to do after reading Upton Sinclair’s book “The Jungle”. After Theodore Roosevelt election ended William Taft was elected. In his term he put into place the Dollar Diplomacy to spread the United State’s influence. Also during the presidential term of William Taft. 17th amendment was ratified . The final Progressive President was Woodrow Wilson during his term he fought for anti trust legislation and labor rights. The stock market crash of 1929 was the beginning of one of the United State’s most impoverished times, but how did this begin and why? After the first world war the United State’s economy was booming, but the agricultural business was not doing so well. They started struggling to make a profit after the war due to there not being soldiers to feed. During the war farmers spent money on tractors and other expensive equipment to make the most product as possible so that they could sell it during the war...
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...The Progressive Presidents In this paper we will be discussing the different strategies of two Presidents that lead the progressive movements during this time. Let’s compare the strategies that allowed for both President Theodore Roosevelt and President Woodrow Wilson to change the way that American government handles different policies and who it affects and how. We will also look at how these two are similar. The Progressive Party, believing that a free people should have the power from time to time to amend their fundamental law so as to adapt it progressively to the changing needs of the people, pledges itself to provide a more easy and expeditious method of amending the Federal Constitution by allowing for people to intervene into the policies the amendment also. Theodore Roosevelt was a president that believed that the people should allow for growth that will allow for the United States to grow and referred to him that he could be compared to a dictator with the way that he thinks. Roosevelt believed that to gain a promotion in anything you do should be earned and not given. Roosevelt theory was that we should not sit around and wait for something to happen that we should take things by force. Roosevelt also stated that he would that he stands for what is known as a square deal this means that in current government that he will stand behind the working person and if a person is poor that there is no help for a lazy person because he feels that a person is lazy should...
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...Chapter 28 Outlines Progressive Roots • There was unrest throughout the land because industrialists concentrated more and more power in fewer and fewer hands. • Progressive theorists insisted that society could no longer use the “let-alone” or laissez faire policy. • Before 1900, politicians and writers begun to pinpoint targets for the progressive attack. Bryan, Altgeld, and the Populists flamed about the “bloated trusts” with corruption and wrongdoing. • Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth in 1894, it was about the Standard Oil Company and on its “predatory wealth” and “conspicuous consumption” • Veblen viewed parasitic leisure class engaged in wasteful “business” which was making money for money’s sake rather than the productive “industry” which was making goods to satisfy real needs. • Jacob A. Riis was Danish and immigrated to the U.S. He was a reporter for the New York Sun, and he wrote How the Other Half Lives. It shocked the middle class Americans in 1890; he talked about diseases, and how dirty and how bad off the New York slums were. It influenced New York City police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt. • Theodore Dreiser wrote the The Financier and The Titan. He battered promoters and profiteers. • A lot of the socialists were European immigrants where there were already socialist movements in the old world. Messengers of the social gospel promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian teachings. They used religious doctrines...
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...Washington Disarmament Conference – 2 November 1921, an international conference on the limitation of naval fleet construction begins in Washington. Under the leadership of the American Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes the representatives of the USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan pledge not to exceed the designated sizes of their respective naval fleets. America First Committee – AFC was established September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.[The America First Committee (AFC) was the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II. Peaking at 800,000 paid members in 650 chapters, it was one of the largest anti-war organization in American history.[1][2] Started in 1940, it shut down after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Recent organizations with similar names are not in any way connected to this historic group. The “Black Market” – The Nye Committee – officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a committee of the United States Senate which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I. It was a significant factor in heightening public and political support for neutrality in the early stages of World War II. Nye created headlines by drawing connections...
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...Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Goodwin focuses on great men of history, but she is the foremost exponent of a historiographic school that focuses on the armies of aides and administrators that enable such men to greatness. In this narrative work Goodwin continues her historiographic focus and commemorates President Teddy Roosevelt, his friend, administrator, and successor William Howard Taft, and the muckraker McClure’s Magazine. Both Taft and McClure’s Magazine functioned as the supporting arm of Roosevelt’s progressivism within the United States. Additionally, Goodwin provides a detailed account of the meteoric rise of Theodore Roosevelt from “sickly and timid boy” to big-city police commissioner to Rough Rider to U.S. president (34). It is also interwoven with the less known and spectacular ascension of William Howard Taft, from “Big Bill” at Yale University to Ohio magistrate to governor-general of the Philippines to Roosevelt’s secretary of war and eventually the hand-picked successor as president of the United States...
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...There have been many individuals who have shaped the world into what it is today. One such individual is America’s 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt. Born with asthma, Teddy’s prospective athletic career was looking grim. So, in order to stay safe and healthy, he did what any kid would do: he started boxing. After beating the disease , and many of his opponents, Teddy decided that he needed to make himself even more of a man by learning to ride a horse, hunting big game, and joining the military. Put in charge of the famed “Rough Riders,” Roosevelt led his unit to glory at the battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. However this still was not enough for the now popular war hero. After leaving the military, he began his political...
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