Word: roosevelt
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...powerful interests angry." Blagojevich, who defeated then state attorney general Jim Ryan in 2002, has seen his approval rating drop sharply, from 52% to 35% in a recent poll. "This is a fight that should have been avoided at all costs," says Paul Green, director of policy studies at Roosevelt University. "It can't be a positive for him." Or for the next family picnic. -By David E.Thigpen
...There's a rumor that Dick Cheney may run for President in 2008. If he wins, that would make him the first three-term President since Roosevelt...
...this jungle—as Teddy Roosevelt once said—I have not been the only one killing lions. Partisan liberals, many of whom spent 2001 to 2004 zapping the Republicans, now attack one another. And most of those criticisms (Democrats have organization and discipline problems; there was something lacking on national security; why the hell did we nominate John Kerry?) are broadly accepted—and broadly repeated...
...capital, Riga, on Saturday, Bush expressed regret for America’s complicity in the 1945 Yalta pact that divided Europe into spheres of influence between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The president even went so far as to compare the deal, struck by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by western governments before the World War II, and to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact...
Lance Morrow's article "Smile When You Say That" [ESSAY, Oct. 28], describing how cowboy logic figured in the recent terrorist incident, was most accurate when it depicted Theodore Roosevelt as a good guy doing battle with bad guys. This image of frontier justice has been a long-standing and powerful one in the American consciousness. After all, when T.R. succeeded the assassinated William McKinley as President in 1901, anguished Republican Business Leader Mark Hanna remarked, "That damned cowboy is President of the United States!" William M. Wemple Fort Washington...