And it is always better to be, or to be led by, Teddy Roosevelt, not George McClellan.

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George McClellan's leaking to his friends in the press, but Lincoln every day was focused on one thing, the war, and took no offense.

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One hundred fifty years ago Monday, on September 17, 1862, the Union army commanded by Major General George McClellan met a Confederate force under Robert E.

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General George McClellan was a great military organizer and leader.

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Over 5, 200 dead and 23, 800 wounded in one week as General George McClellan attacked then retreated, somehow finding his superior numbers inadequate, utterly incapable of admitting that he was being out-smarted by the new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E.

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Douglass is picked up in a presidential carriage when he arrives in Washington, whisked to the White House, and Lincoln says, I think I'm going to lose the election in November, and I think I'm going to lose to the Democratic nominee, George McClellan.

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In fact, while George W. Bush and his first FDA chief, Mark McClellan, started out by pushing to get cancer drugs approved faster reviewing Velcade, for multiple myeloma, in just four months McClellan got moved to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the FDA went years without an official head.

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And this is somebody supported not just by Democrats but by, as I said earlier, Tom Scully and Mark McClellan, who ran this agency -- both of whom ran this agency for George Bush.

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