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...also had an agenda, which she pursued under the umbrella term beautification. At a time when environmentalism was a word few had heard, she did more to make Americans aware of the beauty and frailty of their natural surroundings than anyone since Teddy Roosevelt. Before there was an Earth Day, there was Lady Bird, pursuing her campaign to preserve national parks, fight pollution, plant wildflowers and banish billboards from around federal highways. In 1965 Congress passed the $325 million Highway Beautification Bill; everybody called it the Lady Bird Bill...
...Traditionally, this is viewed as an issue Democrats champion, but if you go back to Republicans' roots, there's a strong conservationist bent," says Crist, who also invited Teddy Roosevelt's great-grandson as a keynote speaker to remind people that a Republican founded America's national parks system. "It's important to stand up for what you believe in, regardless of party affiliation...
Wherever those places are, Lady Bird has probably been there herself. Though she never gained the reputation that Eleanor Roosevelt had for popping up in unlikely spots, she has traveled some 200,000 miles at home and abroad in five years as First Lady. This week she is completing a final coast-to-coast trip covering 6,071 miles in 96 hours, taking her to New Orleans, Cape Kennedy and the California redwood forests. Before leaving, she welcomed 54 new U.S. citizens in the first naturalization ceremony ever held in the White House. The group ranged from an eight-year...
...national polls place J.F.K. among the three greatest Presidents. That's laughable. Compared with giants like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt (the last three on earlier Making of America covers), J.F.K. was a spoiled rich boy who took most of his barely three years in office learning the job, getting little of his domestic program through Congress, having his foreign policy set by trial and (huge) error, and playing politics with civil rights. And he used his power to make sexual conquests...
...Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful opponent in 1944, Thomas Dewey, ran again in 1948, when he famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Representative Jack Kemp failed to win their parties' nominations; Governor Mario Cuomo never declared his candidacy. Colin Powell was a flash in the pan; Donald Trump was a flash in his own brainpan. No New Yorker has headed a presidential ticket in almost 60 years --the longest...