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...years ago last Thursday, Dwight Gooden burst back on the baseball scene by no-hitting the hated Seattle Mariners, and for nine innings the typically heterogeneous group of New Yorkers seated around me in the rightfield bleachers were immersed in something that, following Sandel, must properly be termed a religious experience...
...DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER...
...well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies. Nobody in those days thought of making a movie about F.D.R. and his sometime mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherford. Or about Dwight Eisenhower and his wartime companion Kay Summersby. Or about J.F.K. and...well, whomever. The Kennedy film Hollywood did make...
...Deal raised the softer, more charitable side of the national psyche to an ascendancy over reliance on rugged individualism. Big Government would later expand far beyond anything the New Dealers had ever imagined--first during World War II, then in Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Republicans Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon campaigned as philosophical opponents of Big Government, but once in power they made no real attempt to cut it back. Even Ronald Reagan could do little more than put a lid on its expansion. It took Democrat Bill Clinton to declare the era of Big Government finally over...
...Dwight Eisenhower won the presidency of the U.S. in a ballot-box revolution. In a time of unprecedented prosperity with 62.5 million men & women at work, the voters repudiated the party in power--repudiated an administration which held the awesome leverage of a $80 billion-a-year budget. The Democrats frankly fought the campaign on the pocketbook issue: "Don't let them take it away." The people did what materialists and cynics say people never do: voted against what they believed to be their immediate economic interests...