Cary T. Grayson Notes
Title
Cary T. Grayson Notes
Creator
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938
Identifier
WWP16959
Date
No date
Description
Cary T. Grayson records Woodrow Wilson’s opinions of statesmen Arthur James Balfour and Georges Clemenceau.
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
CTG’s notes
Balfour
The President’s former opinion of him was the ...... as G. Gardner’s in his description of Prophets, Priests, and Kings - had contempt for him then.
He thinks now he is an able debater, a philosopher- inclined to let things drift - an aristocratic autocrat- suave in manner.
Clemenceau
Plays to the galleries. In the morning at a public meeting he spoke to the public; in the same afternoon before a conference of ten, he reversed his morning speech and got down to business and agreed to everything he had opposed in the morning- before the influence of the presences of the public. He has a dual political personality.
Balfour
The President’s former opinion of him was the ...... as G. Gardner’s in his description of Prophets, Priests, and Kings - had contempt for him then.
He thinks now he is an able debater, a philosopher- inclined to let things drift - an aristocratic autocrat- suave in manner.
Clemenceau
Plays to the galleries. In the morning at a public meeting he spoke to the public; in the same afternoon before a conference of ten, he reversed his morning speech and got down to business and agreed to everything he had opposed in the morning- before the influence of the presences of the public. He has a dual political personality.
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Citation
Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938, “Cary T. Grayson Notes,” No date, WWP16959, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.