Word: roosevelt
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...think of President Clinton, a man who by his own admission "misled" his people. And they think of a nation where more than 70 percent of the citizens approve of a leader who has lied to them and a chief lawmaker who has broken the law. Could Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, have credibly challenged Adolf Hitler under these circumstances? Could Harry S Truman have dropped an atomic bomb and persuaded Americans he did it to save Allied lives if he had lied to his people even one time? Could John F. Kennedy '40 have forced Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...with those defeats, Hillary also began to accept what Dolley Madison and Lady Bird Johnson had taken for granted, and what Eleanor Roosevelt must have told her when the two communed. As her former chief of staff Maggie Williams put it, "One of the things she's learned about being First Lady is, it's not just about doing, it's about being a symbol." Whatever judgments voters were asked to make about the flaws they would tolerate in a reckless politician whose leadership they valued, she mirrored in her own decisions about a faithless husband whom she loved...
...defining characteristics of the modern American presidency has been the close scrutiny it has received from the Fourth Estate. Occupants of the White House since Franklin D. Roosevelt have been all but constantly in the eye of a camera. Some of the most memorable pieces of presidential photojournalism have appeared in the pages of TIME. Beginning in February at the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., an exhibit of photographs will be touring presidential libraries and museums. Accompanying the photographs will be observations by Hugh Sidey, longtime President watcher and columnist for TIME. Excerpts from the exhibit, "TIME and the Presidency...
Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...timers used to tell me that taking part in Roosevelt's New Deal was one of the greatest political experiences in history. Any good idea got a hearing. Those programs that did not work were torn up, and the young, brainy aides would start over the next day. At night, when Roosevelt gathered his band of political warriors around him, there was robust laughter and the tinkle of his martini pitcher and his long cigarette holder pointed at a rakish angle, which signaled to everybody that the U.S. was rising from its fear...