Word: fdr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City liberals instinctively dislike O'Connor, they have no one place to go this year. Many will probably vote for Rockefeller, and others, reluctantly, for O'Connor. FDR Jr., whose liberal credentials are not as strong as O'Connor's, brings to mind the remark (originally made about William Scranton) that he is not half the man his mother was. Everyone knows that Liberal Party boss Alex Rose picked him as the Party's best chance to keep third place in the state and Line C on the ballot for the next four years. (The Liberal Party always does much...
With all this going on beneath the surface, the campaign itself is dully predictable. The usual charges of bossism against the Democrats have been made by the city liberals, FDR Jr., and the Republicans. But the course of the state party conventions reduced them to absurdity: while the Republican, Liberal, and Conservative conventions went docilely through the motions of nominating the unpopular and unknown candidates their party bosses had long since chosen, the Democrats got into a real fight over the Lieutenant-Governorship. They ended up nominating the genuinely attractive Howard Samuels, who was the original choice of none...
...forbidding seal of "U.S. Government Property." If such sources were available and used, the Administration, especially the President, might be convinced that the press was genuinely interested in the hard choices he faced instead of "getting the sensational story." Reston's ideal seems to be a return to the FDR days and the fire side chat, where national problems were unveiled before an excited and compassionate national audience...
...than 3000 stills, he has found a handful of early shots that reveal all the sadness, isolation, and boredom of Eleanor's childhood in Mrs. Astor's New York. The film clips of the later years are edited with such spirit and precision that the viewer rarely wonders how FDR and the War are doing: the energetic First Lady more than fills the time and screen...
...optimistic about the national future of the Republicans, provided they can attract Democratic votes. Describing himself as "an FDR Republican," he pointed to his personal success in a city where Democrats outregister Republicans...