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...created the paradigm in which their party has operated since 1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. A successful Democratic candidate true to his or her political roots will be a better friend to the poor and oppressed than any of Jackson's ilk. Such a candidate will, like FDR, make a determined and intelligent effort to promote a vigorous American capitalism in which we are all as concerned with making life for ourselves as we are with making a living...
...meantime, Democrats can console themselves by imagining Bill Bradley or Mario Cuomo as FDR to Bush's Hoover. Michael Dukakis can remind himself that it's better to be right than President...
Sutton talks with an ancient, charming political lexicon, recalling the days when people voted for someone "because he was good to me." He is part of a generation that gravitated towards politics because of the Depression. "FDR forced politics upon us," he says. "He gave us jobs working for the government. The city was a good paymaster. You were guaranteed at least a pair of shoes, a suit, a shirt and tie and maybe three meals a day for your family...
When Schlafly was studying in Cambridge, Harvard was still a bastion of conservatism: students at this school favored Dewey in 1948 and voted against FDR four times. The school has moved sharply to the left in the past 40 years, however. Schlafly says Harvard's professors are now out of step with the nation. "There are so many liberals. They have stacked up the faculty with liberals and it's very difficult for a little clique," Schlafly said in an interview last week...
Brinkley shows FDR at his best, outmaneuvering the isolationists in Congress, stirring the American public to support the war, attacking his opponents in the press and in industry and luring the brilliant dollar-a-year men from business and academe to run the new wartime industries...