Word: roosevelt
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...Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Random House; 490 pages), Jon Meacham, the No. 2 editor at Newsweek, has written a handsomely Plutarchan study that weaves together the lives, characters and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the years of their wartime partnership. Most of the anecdotes have been told a thousand times, but Meacham manages to align the two giants in a way that makes the stories seem fresh, the two men, seen so close together, casting interesting lights upon each other...
Last month, a group of lawmakers began pushing for a redesign of the dime, swapping the profile of Franklin D. Roosevelt ’04, the man who led America through the Great Depression and World War II, for Ronald Reagan, the man who led us through the ’80s. The bill has gained 80 co-sponsors so far, including practically the entire House GOP establishment. “Tax-cut and spend” Republicans—who’ve apparently been unsatisfied simply giving away the federal budget to the wealthiest Americans?...
...being a show of muscular strength, as Krauthammer would like to believe, it weakened the U.S. After 9/11, we had the attention and cooperation of our allies and even many unfriendly regimes around the globe. Krauthammer may think alliances are for cowards and losers, but people like Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill spoke often of the need to cultivate alliances in the name of security. The fact is, we will never beat terrorism by blowing up other countries. BRANDEN FRANKEL Newport Beach, Calif...
...doesn’t approach the quality of classic campaign songs like 1949 Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien’s “Charlie and the MTA” or “Happy Days Are Here Again,” which Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson president, adopted during his first White House...
...spectacular fall for Black, who built up a global empire from two small Quebec newspapers he acquired while still a student. Now the vultures are circling to pick over his holdings, with potential bidders ranging from private equity firms to rival newspaper giants like Gannett. In his Roosevelt biography, Black writes that the President's "considerable vanity could never allow that he had been defeated or outsmarted." It's an insight that could well apply to Black himself...