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...tradition. Following a hot-dog lunch at the White House, the new President, in holiday mood, beamed indiscriminately as Al Smith, cowboy star Tom Mix and six miles of jubilant Democrats paraded past his reviewing stand. Just a day after a decidedly unpleasant Red Room tea with the Hoovers, Roosevelt returned to the same room to greet 13 children on crutches, emissaries of hope from Warm Springs, Ga. Declaring, "It is my intention to inaugurate precedents like this from time to time," he looked on as his full Cabinet was sworn in en masse--another first...
...economic agenda than the deliberately opaque F.D.R. As for the outgoing President, George W. Bush has no wish to be the Herbert Hoover of the CNBC generation. Accordingly, his Administration will have spent several hundred billion dollars to unfreeze the credit markets. (Indeed, has anything of late so recalled Roosevelt's devotion to "bold, persistent experimentation" as the frantic improvisations of Hank Paulson...
...unprecedented scale. Obama's tacit collaboration with an unpopular predecessor offers the strongest evidence yet of his sincerity in wanting to change the brutish tone of official Washington. It's a safe bet his ride to Capitol Hill will be far more civil than the ghastly Hoover-Roosevelt procession. And that's change we can all believe...
...Person of the Year issue and Obama's ascent to the presidency: Your article not only praised the skill of the campaign but compared him to F.D.R., who became President during the Great Depression. I recall Roosevelt's famous "There's nothing to fear but fear itself" speech. I was a youngster living in New York at that time. There was no TV in those days, but it seemed that every radio was tuned in to hear F.D.R.'s speech. You could walk down the streets of the city and hear F.D.R.'s voice. It was like being among...
...Eleanor Roosevelt finally insisted her husband have the government buy the place in 1942 after she caught Winston Churchill wandering the White House corridors in his nightgown one night. Good hospitality makes for good diplomacy, she insisted, saying the White House had simply become too crowded. Even so, she later joked of Churchill's visit: "Such fun." It was purchased...