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...together, they will have trouble outvoting a strong, single party that holds more than half again as many seats. The New Democrats will surely join the Liberals if the leading party tries to keep its campaign promises. Chretien's plans include a public works job initiative similar to Franklin Roosevelt's Civil Conservation Corps and a renegotiation of NAFTA. If he succeeds, he'll be two-up on President Clinton...
...sign of Clinton's seriousness is that the NAFTA campaign has taken on % the frenzied quality of the previous do-or-die efforts on behalf of the budget and health care. Every Tuesday or Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room, Clinton meets for at least an hour with 10 to 20 undecided House members from both parties. The goal is to meet all waverers by the end of October. Once a week, Bentsen, Vice President Al Gore, Trade Representative Mickey Kantor and economics counselor Bob Rubin invite to Washington 100 business and opinion leaders -- mostly handpicked by undecided House members...
...Henry Hampton, is the predictable things it doesn't do. No obligatory, year-by-year chronicle of the economic disaster, replete with awful statistics; the few that are thrown in (the unemployment rate reached 25% in 1933) are awful enough. No windy political-science seminar on the strategies of Roosevelt's New Deal; the emphasis is not on Washington but on the fabric of life in the country, from breadlines and Hoovervilles to race riots and violent labor-management confrontations. Nor, perhaps most refreshingly, is there much nostalgic reveling in the decade's pop culture; despite an occasional movie clip...
...common-man focus has its shortcomings. While the series spends ample time detailing the course of race relations during the decade, it pays scant attention to Roosevelt's re-election campaigns and none at all to economics (no mention of deficit spending or John Maynard Keynes). The international scene, for all but the last two segments, is also ignored...
Galbraith has authored 25 books, including The Affuent Society. In addition to his work as an academic, Galbraith played a central role in wartime economic policy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and served as ambassador to India under President John F. Kennedy...