Word: fdr
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...those who are complaining about the red phones, remember the examples of your forefathers. FDR had the first red phone, though he rarely used it, preferring instead to walk to a friend’s room to chat. Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his blockmates often “judged” girls over his red phone, issuing his famous dissenting opinion in the case of Mediocre Asian Girl v. Learned Hand (1975). Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook after too many girls hung up on him when he called to ask for their hometowns, dates of birth...
...years or so America is in a regenerative mood. It shows a willingness to take a hard look at some of its accepted truths, whether it's the role of big business at the beginning of the 20th century or isolationism after World War I. You saw it with FDR in the 30s, and with Kennedy and with Reagan. I'm intrigued by the possibility that we may be embarking on another such era. It will be fascinating to see how this President puts his stamp not only on the next four or eight years, but potentially on the next...
...cannot overstate the degree to which media exaggeration has become part of the modern presidency - the saturation coverage and saturation punditry. The irony is, no one in March 1933 knew FDR was going to be FDR. And Lincoln - hell, his election prompted seven southern states to secede. So they both had the advantage, if you want to call it that, of being underestimated. (Read the commentary on the ghost...
...percent and rising, Obama’s Gallup approval ratings have been surpassed by only two newly elected presidents since FDR: Kennedy approaching the peak of the cold war, and Johnson after Kennedy’s assassination. “That’s the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster,” CNN analyst Bill Schneider remarked last month. Put another way, Americans are seeing a savior where they should see a Democrat...
...more tragic than these cries of passionate jubilation sounded from within Harvard Yard are their echoes beyond the College gates. Many pundits have dubbed Obama a modern Lincoln or even the next FDR. As Eleanor Clift, a long-time journalist and pundit who is nearly 70 years old, gushed on the McLaughlin Group last week, “Yes, Barack Obama is obvious [as the Biggest Winner of 2008]. But I would like to broaden it a bit, because I think it’s the restoration of democracy in this country. The people have truly spoken, and spoken loud...