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Nevertheless, some have answered McCain's call and seem eager to sacrifice for his cause. There have, of course, been other heroic presidents--FDR and Reagan most recently--elected to work towards a cause, whether fighting the Depression, the Nazis or the Communists. McCain, however, is a war hero; consequently, the cause his supporters fight for--combatting public cynicism and restoring honor to the White House--is coeval with electing him president...
...FDR was involved in numerous affairs, despite being confined to a wheelchair. The media had an unspoken agreement never to photograph the presidentis legs while in coitus...
...freedom from bad weather: Bracing against the snow squalls, a U.S. Park Service worker clears a path in front of the FDR Memorial in Washington...
...everything about the people who are running for president. And we've also convinced ourselves that it's our indisputable right to uncover as much as we can. And in the current, vaguely McCarthy-esque era of the public "right to know," we can rest assured that someone like FDR - whose physical health was in sharp decline and whose marriage was tortured - will probably never again make it past the New Hampshire primaries...
...FDR's time, the final clubs were the center of an undergraduate's life at the College. As we read about it now, the elaborate club system that dominated student life in those days may seem absurd: prospective members had to go through dozens of rounds of selection and rejection before reaching the elusive clubhouse of choice...