Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Christa M. Franklin '98-'99 is a resident of Currier House...
...early days as President, when it seemed as though great things were still possible, Bill Clinton steeped himself in the histories of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. But as he prepares for his sixth State of the Union speech next week, this President, so publicly fixated on the 21st century, is spending his private hours pondering the quiescent, almost forgotten stretches of the 19th, the times Clinton calls "fallow periods." The biographies he has devoured lately include those of such unimpressive Chief Executives as Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant. He even had adviser Sidney Blumenthal...
...look at these young men and women dressed in T-shirts, sweaters, and jeans, and wonder which one I will first encounter in a three-piece suit or its female equivalent," he writes. "Is one of them a future Franklin [D.] Roosevelt ['04], Cap Weinberger ['38], or Anthony Lewis...
Politics has waxed and waned on the pages of Harvard's daily from before the days of Crimson President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and through the years of John F. Kennedy '40, a former Crimson executive. The Crimson has not easily tread the line between journalistic neutrality and human conscience...
...that I object to your being a bastard, don't get me wrong there. It's your being such a stupid bastard." So said Lee Tracy to Cliff Robertson in The Best Man (1964), Franklin J. Schaffner's classy political nail-biter about pre-nomination maneuvering...