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Flubdubs & Mollycoddles. Name calling is a time-honored sport among Americans where their Presidents are concerned. George Washington was called a crook and the "stepfather of his country." It was said of John Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
...Chief Executive's power in foreign affairs have always been ill-defined. When it comes to warmaking, there are few formal checks and balances on a President beyond his own judgment and character. On at least 125 occasions, U.S. Presidents have intervened abroad without a congressional by-your-leave. Jefferson sought neither advice nor consent when he dispatched a naval force to fight the Barbary pirates in 1801. Neither did Polk when he skirmished with the Mexicans in Texas, or Franklin Roosevelt when he sent troops to Iceland in 1941, or Truman when he sent U.S. forces into Korea...
Boston has already revitalized much of its wharf area. In St. Louis, preservationists have presented plans to save from urban removal several cast-ironfront buildings north of the Jefferson Memorial Gateway Arch. And in Seattle, a vociferous citizens' group called "Friends of the Market" is winning its fight to resuscitate the flavorful but financially fading Farmer's Market on Puget Sound as an area for art galleries, shops and boutiques...
...interview yesterday, Benjamin A. Barnes '68, president of PBH, said the funds would be used to coordinate the activities of six talent search programs already in operation: Cambridge Advancement Tutorial, the Cambridge Friends School, Challenge, the Jefferson Park Program, Opportunities in Area 7 and the Roosevelt Towers Program...
...virtually no brain) or one with such severe brain injury that it could not long survive. There are a thousand or more such cases every year in the U.S., but long days passed before Dr. Kantrowitz got the word that he was awaiting. It came from Philadelphia's Jefferson Hospital: an anencephalic boy was born there the day after Washkansky's surgery. Dr. Kantrowitz talked with the parents, whom he described, in broad understatement, as "intelligent and understanding." They agreed to let Kantrowitz take their baby to Brooklyn to die, and to transplant his heart...