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...reach out to Roosevelt in the name of bipartisan cooperation were dismissed by critics as an attempt to annul the election and obstruct the New Deal. Hoover called Roosevelt a "madman" for digging in his heels on economics and refusing to compromise, which guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office in an atmosphere of crisis...
...force Roosevelt's hand: he wrote to enlist his help in calming investors; and he told a colleague that Roosevelt was a "madman" for not listening to him or lifting a finger to forestall a banking crisis, which began in mid-February. It guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America. There were rumors, as he left Washington, that he had been arrested trying to escape aboard Andrew Mellon's yacht with the gold he had raided from Fort Knox...
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office as President on Jan. 20, he'll have an environmental agenda of his own. But before he can push his initiatives, Obama may need to clean up the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush...
...polls in record numbers. "A lot of these kids are freshman, and they were 10 or 11 when George Bush was elected," Franken said. "They just don't know that government is supposed to work. We have a President who can't go to Cleveland without signing a loyalty oath...
...justice after his lackadaisical attempt to snuff out rumors of the extramarital affair he was carrying on over thousands of SMS messages with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick’s cover-up looked like something out of the Huey Long playbook: intimidating and firing police officers, lying under oath and all the while using his privileged position to ridicule the (bulletproof) case against...