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Bill Clinton, apostle of the new and different, a President who has already proved Machiavelli's assertion, asks to be judged by the toughest standard imaginable. Throughout the campaign, Clinton routinely promised a first 100 days reminiscent of Franklin Roosevelt's action-filled three-month push to lift America from the Great Depression. No matter that the F.D.R. yardstick is arbitrary -- and even foolish given the blessed lack of a galvanizing crisis like the one America faced in 1933. "I think it's been a very productive 100 days . . . we've made terrific progress," White House press secretary...
Perot drew 19.02 percent of the votes on November 3--more than any third-party or independent candidate except Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and Millard Fillmore in 1856, who were both ex-presidents when they received 21.53 percent and 27.39 percent, respectively...
...Teddy shouts "Charge!" and dashes off to consult his cabinet on the latest pressing issue of national security, Dr. Harper asks the beaming Abby and Martha if they have ever tried to convince their nephew that he wasn't actually Teddy Roosevelt. The aunts explain that they'd rather he be Roosevelt than nobody, and the audience laughs with this sudden introduction to the kooky Brewster family...
Rich Gardner never fails to bring down the house with his boisterous performance as Teddy Brewster (or Teddy Roosevelt). Gardner's impersonations of TR includes welltimed bugle blowing, excited exclamations of "Bully, just bully!," and an endearing fondness for cabinet meetings, secret proclamations against Japan and digging graves in the cellar for his aunt's latest victims...
...present and beyond (one of the sisters, a psychic, predicts the cancer-caused death of Fidel Castro in 1995) Hijuelos displays the inventive and playful quality that surfaced in Mambo Kings, which incorporated Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Here, he manages to work in everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and jimmy Carter to Error Flynn and Noel Coward...