Ulysses S. Grant was none to pleased with French presence in Mexico.
Here s What You Need to Remember: The withdrawal of French forces soon led to the fall of Maximilian’s cardboard government. In June 1867, Juarez and the nationalists captured the Austrian pretender and, despite a last second appeal for mercy from the American government, executed Maximilian before a peasant firing squad.
The continued presence of a handpicked French puppet emperor in Mexico, which had so worried the Lincoln administration during the Civil War, remained a sore point with American political and military leaders after the Union victory in 1865. Almost as soon as he had accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in April of that year, General Ulysses S. Grant turned his attention to Mexico and Emperor Maximilian of Austria, who now sat as pretender to the Mexican throne.
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In honor of President’s Day 2021, I look at some leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln. In a New York Times (NYT) article, entitled “
Lincoln’s School of Management”, Nancy F. Koehn, a historian at the Harvard School of Business, wrote about Lincoln’s experience in drafting and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation as “one of the best ways to appreciate his strengths as a leader.” I found that Koehn’s article was relevant to the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and compliance practitioner as they tackle the job of instituting or maintaining a culture of ethics and compliance throughout an organization.
The Nome Gold Rush and Three Lucky Swedes The Nome Gold Rush and Three Lucky Swedes
The California Gold Rush certainly was in a far-off land for the Americans of the time, who had to trek long distances to get to their final destination. But the 49’ers had nothing on those brave adventurers who went to Nome, Alaska to seek their fortunes in 1899. This brings us to the Nome Gold Rush.
While Nome, Alaska was owned by the United States at the time of the Nome Gold Rush, it might as well have been Mars, both in terms of getting there and in terms of surviving in the harsh and unforgiving climate. Despite the apocryphal quip often attributed to Mark Twain, that the worst winter he ever saw was June in San Francisco, there is simply no comparison between a miserable Northern California summer and any day of the week in Nome, Alaska.
Pope Francis exchanges greetings with Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, and his wife, Joan, during a meeting with ambassadors to the Holy See at the Vatican Jan. 13. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Jan. 13, 2014)
Why would a global, democratic superpower seek out and maintain diplomatic relations with the world’s smallest monarchical theocracy? While the United States and the Holy See have enjoyed diplomatic relations for nearly four decades, theirs is a formal relationship that took the better part of two centuries to develop. Throughout that time, the same questions were, rightly but repeatedly, litigated: Would relations with the Holy See lead the government to give an explicit preference to the Catholic Church in the United States? Would American presidents interfere with the selection of Catholic bishops? What is the tangible benefit of investing the time, resources and personnel in such a non-transactional relationship?