Word: franklin
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According to assistants in the Alumni Records Office, both former presidents Theodore Roosevelt, class of 1880, and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 had sons who studied at Harvard while their fathers were in the oval office...
Which is why it may be appropriate that the courtly Franklin Delano Raines, who has been head of the Office of Management and Budget for less than a year and has no experience in the political warfare of shutdowns and put-downs, is sitting at the head of the table. "We all know how to do the fight," he says. "We just think it's not productive for the country...
...children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish. They named their fourth child Frank Delno, after his uncle and his father, but someone at the hospital misrecorded it on his birth certificate as Franklin Delano Raines, a name he has since come to use formally...
...kids fell to the Filipino war bride who lived across the street and the sharp-eyed Italian grandmothers who had raised their own children on South Elmwood Place. Frank worked for a Jewish grocer from the time he was 8 until he was 14. A year after Raines left, Franklin High School was tight with racial tension, which eventually fueled riots in Seattle's Central Area. But the Class of 1967 was still a harmonious blend of Asians, blacks and whites, and Raines was its star. The yearbook could hardly hold all his honors--student-body president, gifted singer, statewide...
...change. On Capitol Hill, where she has covered Congress for TIME for the past two years, reporters have access aplenty. "You run into Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich in the halls," she says. The White House, by contrast, is tightly controlled. So to report this week's profile of Franklin Raines, the man behind Clinton's new budget, Tumulty had to find out what goes on inside by going outside--getting to Raines through the people who knew him before he went to Washington. Her challenge in the months ahead: keep finding those fresh angles...