Gleaned from yesterday's New York Times, an observation of an idealistic President's war cabinet:
"The whole world is skew-jee, awry, distorted and altogether perverse. The president is broken in body and obstinate in spirit. ... Drink, consoling friend of a perturbed world, is shut off; and all goes merry as a dance in hell."
The idealistic President? Why, Woodrow Wilson, of course. The oberserver? His Interior Secretary, Franklin K. Lane.