Word: roosevelt
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...memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought, of starving cattle, of anxious creditors. We would survive a while longer." Self-reliance was also a political value: her father Harry was a staunch opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. And it was a reason to respect knowledge: O'Connor's mother Ada Mae, a college graduate, would read to her from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal, and when Sandra was 5 years old she went to El Paso, Texas, where she lived with...
Among the biographical similarities between Giuliani and McCain: both men are divorcees and recent prostate cancer survivors; both men list Theodore Roosevelt as their role model; and—most significantly—both men have displayed an appalling disregard for the First Amendment’s free-speech guarantee...
...could be a Washington or a Jefferson or, impudently, a Robert E. Lee. You could gain some weight, acquire pince-nez and an air of temerity and be Theodore Roosevelt. You could buy a long cigarette holder and do F.D.R...
Edmund Morris, Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, had never been so close to the actual events of power. Every sound, every gesture, every word was caught and cataloged in his quick mind. As the final seconds before broadcast time ticked off, Morris saw a sudden movement beneath the President's table. Reagan's left foot was tapping off the seconds, a reflex planted more than 50 years ago in the soul of a fledgling broadcaster. Morris cradled a tiny black notebook in his left hand and with a thin-line pen jotted down his observation. Later, he transcribed...
...observation and a lyrical sense of identification with the landscape--just at the cultural moment when the religious Wilderness of the 19th century, the church of nature, was shifting into the secular Outdoors, the theater of manly enjoyment. If you want to see Thoreau's America turning into Teddy Roosevelt's, Homer the watercolorist is the man to consult...