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There is a rich literature of political assault. "We love him for the enemies he has made" was the boast of Grover Cleveland's supporters in 1884. Teddy Roosevelt gloried in confrontation with tycoons ("malefactors of great wealth"). F.D.R. had his "economic royalists" to pummel. Harry Truman is still celebrated as a man who liked to "give 'em hell...
...Harvard Libertarian Association, a group calling for fewer government controls of society, will publish the first issue of a new student newspaper, The Harvard Chronicle, on Tuesday, Grover G. Norquist '78, a member of the association, said yesterday...
...disaffection within the Democratic Party toward Carter arises from the increasingly obvious nature of his political conservatism. The Washington Post columnist Clayton Fritchey recently wrote that Carter is the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland, who was first elected in 1884. That this is apparently so is illustrated in Fritchey's article, quoting Carter's summation of his January 19 State of the Union address: "Government cannot solve our problems. It cannot set our goals. It cannot define our vision. Government cannot eliminate poverty, or provide a bountiful economy, or reduce inflation, or save our cities, or cure illiteracy...
...failure of the Great Society social programs of the '60s, does he believe, as does Carter, that "Government cannot eliminate poverty...or save the cities...or cure illiteracy?" Does the man who once marched with Cesar Chavez and worked diligently for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 accept our modern-day Grover Cleveland's negativist beliefs on these issues...
Conventional histories of the late nineteenth century generally miss one man who helped bring about changes in American society far more lasting than those wrought by any politicians or businessmen. The histories tend to name men like President Grover Cleveland, Populist presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan and financier J. P. Morgan as the most influential...