We don't even know what it is in the United States and, of course, we don't go about doing it right.

If we did, we shouldn't pick up a green fellow on the plain of Long Island and send him here: we'd train the most capable male babies we have from the cradle.

But this leads a long way.
As I look back over these six or seven months, from the pause that has come this week, I'm bound to say (being frank, not to say vain) that I had the good fortune to do one piece of work that was worth the effort and worth coming to do--about that infernal Mexican situation.

An abler man would have done it better; but, as it was, I did it; and I have a most appreciative letter about it from the President.
By thunder, he's doing _his_ job, isn't he?
Whether you like the job or not, you've got to grant that.

When I first came over here, I found a mild curiosity about Wilson--only mild.