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...shows a previously ignored gold mine of stunning quotes. Kennedy ended the indictment with one of the most far-fetched: "Fascism was really the basis of the New Deal." Then he drove the point home. "And that nominee, whose name is Ronald Reagan, has no right to quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt" - which Reagan did all the time...
...idea of our annual making of America issue is to use history to help explain the challenges of the moment. No historical figure does that better than Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is not a new idea, of course--we did a cover image of President Obama in the guise of F.D.R. back in November. But this week, we dive deeply into F.D.R.'s Administration and discuss what the new President can learn from how F.D.R. dealt with both the Depression and a gathering international storm. As former President Bill Clinton writes in his insightful back-page essay, "Roosevelt...
...wage war against the English and Prussian armies before his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. (It actually took 111 days, but we'll give him a mulligan.) Napoleon reclaimed power in 1815, however; Americans didn't start assessing their Presidents in 100-day increments until Franklin Delano Roosevelt came along more than a century later...
...news article "The Legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" incorrectly stated that Doris K. Goodwin had already delivered a memorial lecture for the restoration project. In fact, Goodwin will not deliver a memorial lecture until...
...bidding. "Their thinking is basic: I'm male, I'm on the right career path, been to the right schools, have all the abilities, and I'm just the man for the job," Royal says of the party's male leadership that includes Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë and former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. "It's a very patrimonial and possessive conception of politics, like the capitalism practiced by heirs...