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...elected (F.D.R. in 1944, Bush in 2004). Twice, the wars were not going well, and the incumbent party lost (Korea in 1952, with Harry Truman choosing not to run and Dwight Eisenhower beating Adlai Stevenson; and Vietnam in 1968, with Lyndon Johnson withdrawing and Richard Nixon beating Hubert Humphrey...
...most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...more common hurdle for a Hepburn heroine was age. Time and again, Hollywood accented her gamine charm by teaming her with male stars who could have been her father. Half of her first dozen leading men were 20 to 30 years older than she: Humphrey Bogart (54 to her 25) in Sabrina, Henry Fonda (51 to her 26) in War and Peace), Astaire (58 to her 28) in Funny Face, Gary Cooper (56 to her 28) in Love in the Afternoon, Cary Grant (59 to her 34) in Charade, Rex Harrison (56 to her 35) in My Fair Lady...
...Scylla and Charybdis. She will spend the next year trying to navigate between the twin dangers of being too moderate on the war for an antiwar primary electorate and going so far in mollifying that electorate as to weaken her chances in the general election. Like Muskie, a Humphrey backer in 1968, and Kerry, an Iraq-war authorizer in 2002, she's saddled with the original sin of being an original war supporter. Like Muskie, she's been moving gradually away from that position. Like Kerry, she'll soon have to cast votes on various legislative proposals related...
Napolitano does not dress like a cowboy. She is diminutive and feisty. "She's kind of a female Hubert Humphrey, a real happy warrior, only much tougher than Hubert," says Fred DuVal, a prominent Arizona Democratic fund raiser. Napolitano romped in her 2006 re-election campaign over Len Munsil, a religious conservative who campaigned against gay marriage and in favor of a punitive anti-immigration policy, both of which were profoundly out of step with public opinion. Arizona actually voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2006--and in the two congressional districts where Democrats supplanted Republicans...