Teddy Roosevelt was not only a famous talker, but a skilled listener. For all his boisterousness, he knew when to rein it in during negotiations from the Anthracite Coal Strike, to mediation between Russia and Japan.
"To be polite and sympathetic in explaining for the hundredth time something perfectly obvious, when what I really want to do is to give utterance to whoops of rage and knock their heads together -- well, all I can hope is that the self-repression will be ultimately helpful for my character."
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