Word: roosevelt
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Organized by Harvard's Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the 21-member commission conducted a 13-month study of an institution that was born at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt invited the White House press corps in out of the rain. The once vigorous forum, the report concludes, "is now in a serious state of disrepair...
...Bushmen around the yacht-club bar, "sipping a delightfully fruity and frisky white wine, saying 'Play it again, George!' " This was not random abuse but an effort to energize voters who expect Democrats to look out for the little guy -- a venerable Democratic tactic, handed down from Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself an aristocrat...
Harry Truman was presiding over the Senate when Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Ga. After Eleanor Roosevelt gave him the news, his first question was "Is there anything I can do for you?" He called a Cabinet meeting, asked each member to remain in the job, promised that there would be continuity with F.D.R.'s policies, but stressed that he would be making his own decisions...
...Pearl says, "We no longer look at the real definition of liberalism. All we see is the history of the past eight years, rather than the historical definition of the liberal tradition that people respect--Kennedy, Roosevelt...
Even monogamy is highly overrated in a President. If Eisenhower (perhaps) or Franklin Roosevelt (for sure) needed the company of a mistress or John Kennedy a procession of bimbettes to help him relax, the better to carry on his stewardship of the country, I'm not sure that the country ought to complain. A + wife certainly has the right to, but the electorate is paying for a chief executive, not a spouse...