Word: clemenceau
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...20th century, journalism is increasingly the path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert...
...knew kings (Edward VII), premiers (Clemenceau). dictators (Mussolini), marshals (Foch) and famed writers (d'An-nunzio). Charlie Chaplin's gambit at the Paris première of The Kid was not unlike that of many others: "I loved you in New York. You were France, Versailles. You conquered America...
...Light." To the end of the war, T.R. kept up a yeasty life on the sidelines, writing books and articles, and keeping up a brisk correspondence with, among others. Allied leaders like Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau. "Oh, Lord," he once wrote to Clemenceau, "how I wish you were President of the United States...
...Where is Clemenceau? Where are Gambetta, Jaures, Briand, Poincare? These great figures already seem to belong to a distant past...
...proudly called the favorable vote a "reinvestiture." The left-wing Franc-Tireur mocked: "Here he is consenting once more to become Mr. Interim." No one needed to point out that, although M. Laniel's government would be represented at Berlin, there would be no Frenchman there comparable to Clemenceau, Gambetta, Jaures. Briand, Poincare...