...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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...created by a split in the Republican Party. This was created by Theodore Roosevelt when he lost the Republican nomination to the in office President William Howard Taft and drew his delegates out of the conference (Mowry, 1946-1960). After that the party became as popular as the Bull Moose Party, later than the party’s symbol and later than Roosevelt’s show off that he was just "as strong as a bull moose". It has been said that the word progressivism became known in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more common reaction to the huge changes carried by industrialization. Political parties like the Progressive Party, formed at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as progressivism prepared vast steps beneath American leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson. The Progressive party was generally the outcome of presidential campaigns of 3 leaders that are Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follett, plusHenry Wallace. Some Progressive Party organizations struggled in this period and later in the 1952 voting, all parties vanished completely. In 1912, Roosevelt guided progressive factors out of the Republican Party (Pinchot, 1912-1916). He formed no covert of his little view of President Taft and believed he could not hold the receipt. But President Taft had mainly annoyed Roosevelt, a passionate environmentalist, and through taking away Pinchot like head forester. Platform of the...
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...CHAPTER 9 THE PHILIPPINE SOCIETY UNDER THE AMERICAN RULE Having proclaimed that the Philippines will be kept by the United States, President McKinley started the task of governing the colony. In his address before the 4th session of the 76th U.S. Congress, McKinley stated America’s aims concerning the Philippines. “The Philippines is ours not to exploit, but to develop, civilize, educate, and to train in the science of self-government.” In his instructions to the First and Second Philippine Commissions, McKinley explained in effect that the U.S. came to the Philippines not to conquer the Filipinos, but to work for their benefit and welfare. The Military Government Following the surrender of Manila in August, 1898, President McKinley ordered the establishment of a military government here. Major General Wesley Merritt, the commander of U.S. forces in Manila, served as its first military governor. When Merritt left for Paris, France to brief the U.S. and Spanish peace commissioners on the conditions in the Philippines, he was succeeded by Major General Elwell Otis who served until May, 1900. The last American military governor was Major General Arthur MacArthur. He served until 1901. During its brief existence from 1898 to 1901, the military government accomplished the following among other things: 1. It reorganized the courts in the country. It established a Supreme Court composed of six Filipinos and three Americans. A Filipino, Cayetano Arellano, was named...
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...BACKGROUND PAPER ON DOMAINS OF CULTURE Have you ever been on a casual stroll in the woods and suddenly you feel as if you’re being watched or followed? Well I’m here to tell you it may be a Yeti stalking you! That’s right Bigfoot, whether you are a believer or not this elusive creature first appeared in literature 4000 years ago in the Epic of Gilgamesh that was written on 12 clay tablets and found in the ruins of Ninevah. (Parkash, 2006) But today I am going to discuss how the history and myth of Bigfoot has its place in American culture along with key individuals and certain events that force some people to believe that this so called Wildman is not just a myth. Leif Erickson was the first person to have an encounter with the monster in 986 AD long before Christopher Columbus arrived. Leif describes it as “horribly ugly, hairy, swarthy and with big black eyes.” (Parkash, 2006) It is argued that he just saw Native Americans but the Norse were extremely hairy themselves so why would they mention the Natives as hairy. Native Americans throughout time have had their own believes and stories on the subject. Explorers in the new world recorded the Indians attitudes and beliefs for their Big Brother (Parkash, 2006) which I believe started many ideas and fears for our own culture. According the New World Encyclopedia (2009) even our own President Theodore Roosevelt has a published encounter told to him by a mountain hunter in 1893. If the President of the United States says...
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...in North Carolina on behalf of his son Reuben and John, which challenged this new Act. Under this Law, his two sons would have been barred from working in a cotton mill, because his younger son was 14 years of age and his older son was 16 years of age. He asked the District Court to strike down the law as unconstitutional and he eventually took the case to the Supreme Court. At first he argued the law was not a regulation of commerce. Then he argues that the Tenth Amendment left people the power to make rules for child labor to the states. He also lastly argued the right to allow his children to work was protected by the Fifth Amendment. He did not want them to forbid his sons from working because of the 5th Amendment. The majority was William Day, Edward White, Willis Van Devanter, Mahlon Pitney, and James RcReynolds. The Minority was Oliver W. Holmes Jr., Joseph Mckenna, Louis D. Brandeis, John H. Clarke. In my view, the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in...
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...Minor Parties: Past and Present Throughout the history of American politics, there have been countless political parties that have formed, disbanded, and evolved, and nearly all of them have helped shape today’s American political structure in some way. These groups have made significant contributions to American politics and have both directly and indirectly impacted election outcomes. In both the 1912 and the 1968 presidential elections, minor party candidates not only secured a significant amount of support, but influenced drastic change in political views and processes in the United States. In addition to these historical examples, minor parties continue to have a significant role in American politics, and in the 2012 Presidential Election, the Libertarian and Green Parties both nominated candidates that had potential to make a significant impact. Many scholars today believe minor parties only to be “spoilers” in presidential elections; they say that they merely take enough votes away from one candidate to cause the other candidate to win the election (Trautman, 2014). While this does occur, minor parties have a much greater impact on American politics than as merely election spoilers. They often present issues that are important to the American populous that may be overlooked by the large political machines that are the Democratic and Republican parties. After the major parties study these issues, often they consider them in the presentation of their party platform to...
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