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Entry: Teddy Kennedy's Still Swimming in the Stuff Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/teddy_kennedys_still_swimming_in_the_stuff#10697 Post contents: Wilson's Secretary of the Navy was Josephus Daniels, a very fine gentleman who barely knew which end of a battleship the propellors are under. FDR was the sort of ship enthusiast who cut classes at Harvard to watch liners arrive and depart East Boston. His administration of the Navy was far better than hackwork, even if it doesn't have the romance and glamor or being an infantry lieutanant and leading the doughboys over the top and into German machine gun fire. Which do you think was of greater benefit to the war effort? TR seems to have over-reacted to his father's noncombattant status. Having a good dose of patriotism and guts is one thing. Being a bellicose bully is quite another. Sent at: 2008 07 25