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In 1955, a U.S. Senate committee led by John F. Kennedy ’40 was commissioned to create a list of the five greatest senators in the legislative body’s history. Kennedy discussed the committee’s criteria in selecting these five Senate members�...
Like La Follette, a legendary reformer, McCain will be remembered as a crusader who took on corruption in Washington by enacting campaign-finance reform with the McCain-Feingold Act and speaking out against pork barrel spending.
The last third-party candidate who got anywhere near the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and he had been President before. Since then, four third-party candidates have gotten more than 5% of the vote. And each of them had something Bloomberg lacks: a popular issue that the major...
As it happens, Roosevelt's outlook was not entirely different. He didn't dispute the benefits of large-scale capitalism, and he thought of huge enterprises as an inevitable development of the industrial age. He understood the idea of economies of scale. Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and William Jennings...
La Follette's attitude towards the past administration was expressed by Mr. Fechtner as follows: "I feel that anyone in authority, who knows of a wrong, and who does not put a stop to it, thereby assumes responsibility for the wrong himself."