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Standing on the porch ofFranklin Delano Roosevelt's "Little White House" retreat in Georgia on the 50th anniversary of FDR's death, President Clinton urged Americans to rememberhis legacy. Noting that many ofFDR's social and economic programsare on the congressional chopping block, Clinton reminded his audience of Roosevelt's focus on people and, in particular, education, saying that he will not support any tax cut which does not protect education...
...write as a member of the F.D.R. Memorial Commission and as a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Your article on the debate over the memorial's depiction of F.D.R.'s disability [Monuments, March 6] was inaccurate and unbalanced, and although you characterized my position on the monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R...
...NEWT GINGRICH DESCRIBED as the greatest President of the 20th century distrusted the states, was suspicious of Big Business and believed that government was the best instrument for building a morally better world. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's own contract with America pledged that government would help the one-third of the nation that was "ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished...
F.D.R., however, proved a reluctant convert; in 1937 he was still pining for a balanced budget, something that Keynesian economists warned would turn the "Roosevelt recession" into another full-fledged depression. Roosevelt's advisers accordingly persuaded him to seek to increase consumption. The answer to the question "What can you do for your country?" became "Consume." Thrift became wasteful, shopping patriotic--laying the groundwork for the I-consume-therefore-I-am society of today...
...Great Society era. We are living at the threshold of a new century that demands real and practical answers, not hypothetical, dream-like ones. Clinton should be at the forefront, taking the initiative, advocating pragmatic solutions such as "enablement," not "entitlement," in social programs, among others. Here, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 could serve as his guiding principle when he said, "Permanent, lifelong assistance does not help the individual. It only hurts...