On Oct 14, 5:59*pm, Giles wrote:
After some hundreds of pages of Edmund Morris's "Colonel
Roosevelt" (it's impossible to tell just how many on this stupid
Kindle) we come to the inevitable denouement. *Teddy has died and been
buried.

Morris says, "Given the poignancy of his sufferings over the last
year, a considerable minority of Roosevelt-haters elected to keep
their opinions private for the time being. *Even H.L. Mencken reserved
fire. *'The man was a liar, a braggart, a bully, and a fraud,' he
wrote a friend. *'But let us not speak evil of the dead.'"

Nearly stupefying.

Cluelessness on a scale hitherto encountered only here, in these
pages.....or sardonic wit worthy of Twain, Wilde
or.....yes.....Mencken.

Either way, nearly stupefying. * * * *

giles

Joe the Elder offers----well at least he took some interesting hikes
in South America--[where he almost died] --did he not do something
about parks that we have enjoyed ? Seems he lived to accomplish rather
than worry about comments upon his death !