Word: roosevelt
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...isolation ostrich: smiling indulgently at their "baby" - a squalling hybrid label a "GOPstrich" - as the elephant says, "He's a noisy little-so-and-so, but, sweetheart, he's all ours!" A serpent with swastikas snakes across the Atlantic while a figure marked Lindbergh pats its head, declaring, "'Tis Roosevelt, Not Hitler, that the World Should Really Fear." Seuss' mascot for America, an eagle with an Uncle Sam beard and striped top hat, sits in stockades wearing an "I am part Jewish" sign on its beak and a public notice (signed by Lindbergh), "This Bird is Possessed of an Evil...
...Ulysses S. Grant was a great President. (It's not just an American phenomenon: the most decorated veteran in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, was a disastrous Prime Minister.) Even more impressive is the fact that two of the greatest war Presidents in American history--Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt--had military backgrounds that make Bush's look distinguished: Lincoln, minimal (less than half a year of militia duty); Roosevelt, none...
...consequence, today we are not as far from the time of Eleanor Roosevelt, when for women, sex was “an ordeal to be endured,” as we now imagine. The most famous survey of sexuality, the Kinsey report of the 1950s, recorded that 36 percent of women in their 20s and 15 percent of women in their 30s or older had never reached orgasm. More recent studies more or less confirm these findings, with only slightly lower numbers of women left in the orgasmic dark...
Kerry may be the one using the Real Deal as his slogan, but there's a sense that he's protesting too much. Herbert Hoover once said of Franklin Roosevelt that "he was a chameleon on plaid," and there has been something of that quality throughout Kerry's campaign. He has written poetry and wind-surfed and ridden a Harley. He has played both hockey and his guitar. It was meant to make him seem more human, change the scale, since he looms over the field like a tall dark cloud. For months nothing seemed to work. He still came...
Well, Ike is first. He's my hero. Roosevelt, of course. He was my Commander in Chief. And then the most underrated is probably Gerald Ford. Great ticket too, as you remember...