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Strana 185 - I forward this for information and to the end that if it throws any light upon new parties to summon as witnesses they may be brought out. Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant — or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be — against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect — or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
Strana 56 - I hope you are mistaken, Mr. President." We walked a few paces in silence. Then he said, in a more ordinary tone: ' ' I have perfect confidence in those who are around me — in every one of you men. I know no one could do it and escape alive. But if it is to be done, it is impossible to prevent it.
Strana 258 - DEAR MOTHER : — Don't be disturbed by conflicting reports about my condition. It is true I am still weak, and on my back; but I am gaining every day, and need only time and patience to bring me through.
Strana 56 - Crook, do you know I believe there are men who want to take my life?" Then after a pause he said, half to himself, "And I have no doubt they will do it.
Strana 65 - ... being the name of the drug. Senator NELSON. Is that a brand name or is that Dr. PERRY. No, this is the generic name of the drug. I don't happen to know the brand name. I have felt sufficiently strongly about this that I myself went to the FDA and filled out the INDs that was necessary to use this drug. As far as I know, I am the only person to whom this drug is available in the United States. I can use it as an experimental drug, but do so only in extremely rare circumstances. I feel, however,...
Strana 64 - when I remember that the President had said, just a few hours before, that he knew he could trust all his guards. And then to think that in that one moment of test one of us should have utterly failed him! Parker knew that he had failed in duty. He looked like a convicted criminal the next day. He was never the same man afterward.
Strana 66 - But no one has ever sounded the spring of spiritual insight from which his nature was fed. To me it all means that he had, with his waking on that day, a strong prescience of coming change. As the day wore on the feeling darkened into an impression of coming evil.
Strana 208 - RB Hayes, who succeeded me as President of the United States, bore a very honorable part. His conduct on the field was marked by conspicuous gallantry as well as the display of qualities of a higher order than that of mere personal daring.
Strana 72 - ... being intoxicating. This incident brought about a reputation for drunkenness which clung to the President throughout his administration. The slander was used by Mr. Johnson's enemies for their own purposes. To offset these disadvantages, there was nothing in Mr. Johnson's self-contained, almost sombre manner to take possession of the hearts of those about him, as did the man with whom we were forced to compare him.
Strana 115 - ... the United States a President was on trial for more than his life — his place in the judgment of his countrymen and of history. There was a painful silence when the counsel for the President filed in and took their places. They were seated under the desk of the presiding officer — in this case, Chief- Justice Chase — on the right-hand side of the Senate chamber. The managers for the prosecution were already in their seats. Every seat in the gallery was occupied. The dignity with which the...