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Biographer Patricia O’Toole tells the story of Roosevelt??s twilight in the concise, smooth prose that one would expect from the Columbia University writing teacher that she is. In When Trumpets Call, released by Simon & Schuster last month, O’Toole draws upon a wealth of primary sources—including several collections of letters of Roosevelt??s family members that are stashed away in Harvard’s Houghton Library—to offer the reader a glimpse into TR’s most private thoughts...
Roosevelt was firm in his convictions, but he was also a man of puzzling contradictions. An avid conservationist who added national forests and wildlife refuges, Roosevelt??s first act after his chosen successor William Howard Taft took office was to embark on a safari to shoot lions, giraffes, and other exotic creatures. In total, Roosevelt and his entourage killed 512 animals, the majority of which were stuffed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...conservatives wanted nothing to do with Roosevelt??s progressive policies. After a dispute over the allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with...
Most galling to Tsurimi is what he calls Bush’s “total disconnect with reality” and “his lack of compassion for the unemployed and weaker.” Tsurimi claims that Bush called many of the programs from Franklin Roosevelt??s New Deal “socialism”—compelling fodder for Democrats’ claims that Bush is dipping too far into Social Security to fund his other initiatives...
...unanimous 8-0 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Roosevelt??s right to detain the eight men and try them by military commission in the landmark Ex parte Quirin case. The Court explicitly noted the difference between “lawful” and “unlawful” combatants: “Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful...