Armed Progressive: General Leonard WoodGen. Leonard Wood's meteoric career was no fluke. The ambitious Wood (1860 1927), serving as an army physician, strategically took on tasks and assignments that led him from the pursuit of Geronimo in the deserts of the Southwest (for which he won the Medal of Honor) to chief of staff of the U. S. Army and almost to the presidency of the United States. During his rise to high office, the darker side of Wood's personality became legend. Able