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...Democrats. They remind you of a doddering old, favorite grandmother, slightly out of step with the times, forcing the same old remedies on you--in this case, public works to insure full employment, more social services tied to increased government efficiency (this year's cliche, but remember that FDR promised to balance the budget), and the achievement of the American dream for all within the next Carter administration. We shouldn't be too cynical, though. The old girl has heart, her mistakes nothing more than the shortcomings of her nation's people: too much faith in their ability to tinker...
...Sale argues, Nixon went too far, extending the powers of his presidency in order to implement his program of cowboy reforms and antagonizing important yankee interests in the process. He attempted to turn the clock back to the pre-FDR era by making sizable cutbacks in welfare allocations, sometimes even impounding funds to prevent the implementation of congressional actions. The Establishment thought these minimal forms of income redistribution were necessary to preserve social order, Sale argues, while Nixon preferred to "guarantee domestic tranquility" through overtly repressive means. The expansion of FBI domestic surveillance, abuse of the Internal Revenue Service...
Corcoran drafted much New Deal legislation as one of FDR's chief lieutenants, but in the past 20 years he has been criticized for defending the business world that he helped to regulate in the 1930s...
Rare Portrait. Yet the American people were constantly assured by the White House that despite his ravaged face and feeble manner, the President was in sturdy good health. In his new book, FDR's Last Year (Morrow), Journalist Jim Bishop, 66, explores how and why Roosevelt's true condition was concealed from the nation. Bishop's account raises the question of whether Roosevelt, given his condition, was acting in the nation's best interests when he ran again...
Located on the western end of the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge leading to the resort Campobello Island, Canada, Lubec nonetheless gets little tourist trade. The local drugstore, on the second block of the four-block-long main street, does carry a few postcards of Campobello--"FDR's summer home"--but novelty items are absent from the shelves. It's a poor community with many problems...