Talk:Elihu Root

message: I know the photo looks better on the left, but it messed up the bulletting there, so I moved it to the right hand side.  If we get more info here, we can move it back to the left.  RickK 00:30, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: photo

message: There's some potentially useful bio info in the NRHP documentation now linked at the Elihu Root House article, if anyone cares to incorporate any of that into the Elihu Root article.  I am working on the House article, and not the Elihu Root article, myself.doncram 23:31, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: bio info from Elihu Root House

message: I am new at this could someone fix this in the bio. section. 41 new york united states secretary of war. I dont think soJ8079s (talk) 06:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  new york sec. of war? 

message: I just came upon a very intersting story involving my mother ( Helen Root) born in 1915 in GrandGorge NY. She stated just prior to her death in 1998 that the physician who delivered her suggested she be named Elihu after a very famous person.  Her parents did name her this but when obtaining her birth certificate were told it was a male name. Her father (born 1886) came from Lithuania and his real last name was Racievicz. Upon arrival in the US it was changed to Root. Any chance of some connection with the last name of Mr. Elihu Root?The reason I am curious is that I cannot find any records of my grandfather's arrival to the US.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.251.109.94 (talk) 02:09, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Root name  

message: According to an opinion piece in 'The Independent' newspaper
"[Root's] policies in the Philippines led to half a million deaths at the turn of the 20th century." 
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ian-birrell-this-award-is-premature-ndash-and-potentially-very-foolish-1800568.html 
I came here hoping to find some background to this claim.   91.107.194.182 (talk) 16:46, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Root and the Philippines 

message: Having Fourier-Transform dated to before 1900 it suggests, computers were avialable at that time. Did he have any relation to computers? "root" is a user with all priviliges on most Linux-Systems.
--2003:74:F26:7A9A:E009:F7F6:D415:8E1E (talk) 23:51, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Root and Computers? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "He also devised the principle of rotating officers from staff to line."
Oh he did, did he? Root did not devise this idea, which has commonly used before then in Napoleon's army and others. During Root's expansion and modernization of the Army, this standard process of rotating the staff and line became common. That was part of "modernization."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tributations (talk • contribs) 00:56, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devised?