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...took over mismanaged companies, installed his own men and supervised operations. As he exercised his godly powers, he could not abide interference. Jean Strouse, one of his most thorough biographers, has cast doubt on whether he actually spoke the words that have been endlessly attributed to him: "I owe the public nothing." But if he didn't say them, he should have. As a summary of his lifelong outlook, they could hardly be bettered...
...House after three decades during which Congress had consistently had the upper hand over the President. He lost no time in making it plain that he was a different breed. The "imperial presidencies" that followed his, from those of Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush, all owe something to his example. When Congress did nothing to curb the power of the trusts--huge monopolistic corporations--Roosevelt simply directed his Justice Department to start bringing suits. When Congress balked at embarking on the Panama Canal, Teddy found a way to go forward. "I took the Isthmus," he later...
...admit mistakes. If I hadn't known she was describing Lay's fatal flaws as the leader of Enron, I would have concluded that she was describing Bush's fatal flaws as the leader of our nation. We taxpayers are the stockholders and customers of our government, and we owe it to ourselves and our progeny to ask, the next time we go to the polls, whether we have learned from the failures of our leaders. MIMI BARRON Fredericksburg...
...White House allies who are asked to discuss the case on television will be stressing points Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman made in a round of interviews this morning: that Rove did nothing wrong, but was right to cooperate, and that Democratic leaders prejudged the case and owe Rove an apology. "What people like me said during this whole investigation is: Let's not presume his guilt or innocence, let's let the facts get out," Mehlman said on CNN. "You saw a rush to judgment for political gain." Rove, indeed, appears to be off the hook. But with...
...access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse’s long career at the Times began when, only a month after graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, she became the first female clerk to renowned columnist James B. Reston.“I think I owe my job to the war in Vietnam,” Greenhouse says. “The guys were not free to take jobs like that because they would be drafted.”Greenhouse describes entering The New York Times’ headquarters for the first time...