From: joe@blow.com   
      
   Nelson Miles was the one who really wanted to be president, but had to   
   satisfy himself as head of the Army under Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt loathed   
   Miles, "a strutting peacock," as he called him. Wouldn't even attend Miles'   
   retirement ceremony.   
      
   Miles liked Custer, but of the two Miles was the one who exploited political   
   opportunity wherever he found it, whether with the Republicans or the   
   Democrats and would absolutely have elbowed Custer aside for any general's   
   stripes available at the time. Custer's wife Libby was a good campaigner in   
   Washington but her hubby had only military ambitions and the point is moot   
   after June 25, 1876.   
   --   
   Iyotake   
      
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