Word: cincinnatus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going out to campaign openly for the job, paying obeisance to the word draft only by saying that the misstatements of opponents had forced him to speak. Political writers, combing history for a man who had really been drafted, found one (who was more legend than fact): Cincinnatus of 458 B.C., who was quietly plowing his acres when Roman messengers hauled him away to rule Rome. Nobody last week likened Franklin Roosevelt to Cincinnatus...
...President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general...