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and George McClellan, 55
Hampton Roads Conference, 44, 60–64
management style, 43, 49, 50, 56, 234
and Mary Todd Lincoln (wife), 55, 248n4
and Nancy Lincoln (mother), 52, 249n18
and Sarah Lincoln (sister), 53, 249n18
and Thomas Lincoln (father), 52
personality, 50, 51, 53, 57
physical appearance and mannerisms, 50, 51
and Salmon Chase, 56, 57
suicidal thoughts, 52–53, 249n16
and Thirteenth Amendment, 58–59
and William Seward, 11
compared and contrasted with, 50, 51
personal relationship, 44, 45, 53, 57
working relationship, 45, 49, 55, 60–64, 248n6, 250n24
Madison, James
and Albert Gallatin, 40
and Thomas Jefferson, 37, 38–39
Maine, USS, 16
Marshall, George
and Clark Clifford, 115–19, 235
and Harry Truman, 115–16, 119
McKinley, William, 15–18
and George Cortelyou, 15–18
and White House press office, 16–18
Meese, Edwin
and Alexander Haig, 171, 172
and James Baker
working relationship, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166, 170, 174
and Michael Deaver
personal relationship, 165
working relationship, 156, 158, 159, 165, 169, 170, 173, 174
personality, 164
physical appearance and mannerisms, 164
and Ronald Reagan
personal relationship, 161, 164
working relationship, 157, 161, 164, 165, 166
Moley, Raymond, 19, 111
Mondale, Walter, 219, 229, 233, 234
Monroe, James
and John Quincy Adams, 41
and Monroe Doctrine, 41
Morris, Dick
assessment of the Clintons, 177, 180, 189, 190, 196
Nixon, Richard
and Alexander Haig, 171
and Donald Rumsfeld, 213
and Dwight Eisenhower, 139, 142, 150, 229
and Hillary Clinton, 188
and H. R. Haldeman, 155, 174
and John Ehrlichman, 134, 174
and John Foster Dulles, 143, 150
and Sherman Adams, 149
Pendergast, Tom
and Harry Truman, 121
Polk, James K.
and Sarah Polk, 154, 200, 201
Powell, Colin
and George W. Bush, 218, 223, 262n10
and Ronald Reagan, 162
Randolph, Edmund
and George Washington, 35
scandal, 34–35
Rice, Condoleezza
and George W. Bush, 217, 223
Reagan, Ronald
Alexander Haig, difficulties with, 170–75
and Colin Powell, 162
and Edwin Meese
personal relationship, 161, 164
working relationship, 157, 161, 164, 165, 166
and James Baker, 157, 159, 165, 167, 168, 173
and Jimmy Carter, 162
and Michael Deaver
personal relationship, 169
working relationship, 167, 169, 172
and Nancy Reagan, 162
passivity and detachment, 156, 160–61, 162
personality, 162, 163
poor manager, 156, 158
right-hand man/woman
accountability, lack of, 88–89, 237
cabinet officer as, 40–41, 64–64
characteristics of, 18, 19, 88, 173–75
chief of staff as, 109–10, 134, 154–56, 256n2
definition, 11, 88
evolution of, 173–75
family member as, 88, 175, 199–201
quasi-official as, 88, 237
vice president as, 227–29, 233–39
Rockefeller, Nelson, 214, 219, 229
Roosevelt, Eleanor
as first lady, 200
and Franklin’s polio, 99–103
and Louis Howe, 91, 101–103, 105
management of Franklin’s political comeback, 105
political career, 101
Roosevelt, Franklin, 121–22
and Al Smith, 102, 105, 107, 108
and Eleanor Roosevelt (wife), 97, 99–103
and Harry Hopkins, 9–11, 19, 88
and James Roosevelt (son), 92, 107–108
and Louis Howe, 11
compared and contrasted with, 11
personal relationship, 91, 92, 99, 100
working relationship, 92, 93, 96–97, 98, 101, 102–103, 104, 105, 109, 111, 254n15
navy assistant secretary, 99
1912 New York state senate campaign, 96–97
1920 presidential campaign, 98
1924 Democratic convention, 103, 107
personality, 103
physical appearance and mannerisms, 97
polio diagnosis and struggles, 97, 99–103, 104, 105–106
and Sara Roosevelt (mother), 100
and Harry Truman, 106
and Winston Churchill, 10
Roosevelt, Theodore, 98, 200, 260n27
Rosenman, Judge
and Clark Clifford, 126, 127
Rumsfeld, Donald
and Dick Cheney, 211–12, 213, 214
and George W. Bush, 218, 223
and Richard Nixon, 213
Seward, William
and Abraham Lincoln, 11
compared and contrasted with, 50, 51
personal relationship, 44–45, 49, 53, 55, 57
working relationship, 44, 49, 55, 60–64, 248n6, 250n24
and Alexander Stephens, 60–64
and 1860 presidential campaign, 46, 47, 48
and Emancipation Proclamation, 57–59
Hampton Roads Conference, 44, 60–64
health, 65–66
personality, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 249n12
physical appearance and mannerisms, 51
political career, 46–47, 54
and Salmon Chase, 56, 57
and Thurlow Weed, 48, 54
Smith, Al
and Franklin Roosevelt, 102, 105, 107, 108
Spanish American War, 15, 18
Stahr, Walter, 46
Steelman, John
as chief of staff, 134, 256n2
Clark Clifford, rivalry with, 129, 130, 131, 155, 256n15
and coal strike, 130
and Harry Truman, 126, 127, 128, 129
and railroad strike, 128
Stephens, Alexander, 44, 45, 46, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 250n26
Suskind, Ron, 219, 263n18
Taft, William
and Nellie Taft, 200
Thirteenth Amendment
and Abraham Lincoln, 58–59
and William Seward, 58–59, 62
“Troika,” the, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 166, 170, 173–74. See also Baker, James; Deaver, Michael; Meese, Edwin
Truman, Harry
career disappointments, 121
and Clark Clifford
compared and contrasted with, 122
personal relationship, 113
working relationship, 92, 116, 119, 123–24, 127, 128–29, 130–31, 131–33, 135, 255n4
and coal strike, 130–31
and Franklin Roosevelt, 106, 122
and George Marshall, 115–16, 119
insecurities about himself as president, 119, 122
and John Truman (father), 120
and Martha Truman (mother), 119–20
military career, 120–21
military reorganization, 132–33
as Missouri politician, 121
personality, 119, 120, 121
physical appearance and mannerisms, 122
and railroad strike, 128–29
and Tom Pendergast, 121
vice president, selected as, 106, 121–22
Trump, Donald, 17, 88
Trump,
Ivanka, 88, 89, 176, 230, 236, 237, 238
Tugwell, Rexford, 19, 111
Twelfth Amendment, 19, 228
Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 228
Van Buren, Martin, 65, 154, 227, 243n2
Washington, George, 155, 234, 235, 244n1, 244n2, 246n8
and Alexander Hamilton, 11, 27
compared and contrasted with, 23, 27, 32, 33
conflicts with, 24–25
personal relationship, 23, 24–25, 36, 42
working relationship, 11, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24–25, 33, 35–39, 40, 42, 64, 244n2, 246n7
and Augustine Washington (father), 28–29
British military career, 29, 30
and Edmund Randolph, 34–35
health and sickness, 29, 34
indecisiveness, 36, 37, 246n11
insecurity of, 23, 28
and Jay Treaty, 36, 37, 38
and Lawrence Washington (older half brother), 28–29
and Mary Ball Washington (mother), 28–29
personality, 27–28, 29, 30, 35, 36, 244n3, 245n5
physical appearance and mannerisms, 27–28, 29, 30, 34
and Thomas Jefferson, 64, 236, 246n11
Wilson, Edith Galt
and Edward House, 69, 83, 84, 85, 87
and Woodrow Wilson, 82, 83, 175
Wilson, Woodrow
depression, 81–82
dyslexia, 74, 75
and Edith Wilson, 82, 83, 175
and Edward House, 11
compared and contrasted with, 74, 78
personal relationship, 68, 80, 81, 82, 85, 87
working relationship, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
and Ellen Wilson, 81
faith, 75, 76, 86, 87
flawed negotiator, 84, 86
health problems, 7
insecurity, 69, 74, 75, 81, 82, 85
and Janet Wilson (mother), 75–76
and Joseph Wilson (father), 75
and Paris Peace Conference, 83–87
personality, 69, 77, 79, 85
physical appearance and mannerisms, 77