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History is littered with examples of misuse of executive power during wartime. Whether Lincoln’s detention of 13,500 people during the Civil War, Roosevelt??s imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II or Truman’s attempt to take over steel mills during the Korean War, these actions have all undermined the spirit of America’s democracy. The Supreme Court must take strong action against the Bush administration’s authoritarian interpretation of executive power and prevent the mistakes of the past from haunting this country once again...
McCullough himself was so devoted to empathizing with the subject of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman that he ran the exact the same route President Truman ran through the Capitol upon being informed of the death of Theodore Roosevelt??even down to the time...
...freed the slaves, and regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did? Likewise, many scholars maintain that knowledge of Hitler’s escalating program of genocide in Europe had very little to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt??s decision to enter World War II on that continent. Do we care in the slightest that he might have been more concerned with getting revenge on Japan than with liberating the Nazi concentration camps, considering that we saved the lives of those victims we could? Obviously, any equation...
...Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson spoke last night at the Institute of Politics after little pre-event fanfare and in total security. After a typically cordial introduction that emphasized her achievements as president of Ireland, Robinson delivered an uncontroversial speech entitled “Making Human Rights Matter: Eleanor Roosevelt??s Time Has Come.” It was a far cry from an earlier event that focused on Robinson’s leadership...
...losing control over the brokerage industry to 50 state AGs if Spitzer proves successful. As Businessweek states in this week’s issue, the current scrutiny on American business is the most intense since the initial regulations imposed after the Gilded Age, during the height of Teddy Roosevelt??s trustbusting...