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...question is whether any of our prospective leaders have the will to turn inward and concentrate efforts at home to do today what Roosevelt did 60 years...
Everyone is looking for the next Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. After 20 years of short-term presidents who only seem to work towards the next election, voters want someone who will bail them out of a serious depression...
Isolationism, a word with an ugly ring for most international businesspeople and freemarketeers, was Roosevelt's answer to the Depression. It can also be the answer for whomever wins the next presidential term...
...Roosevelt used a Hundred Days' congressional session, in which several pieces of regulatory and reparatory legislation were passed. To make isolationism effective, a leader must have the resolve to leave the romantic world of hegemonic superpowers and international summits in order to make a sincere attempt to jump-start his or her own nation...
Radio is the last intimate medium. For harried commuters and lonely homebodies, it is mouth-to-ear resuscitation, a voice crying in their wilderness. In the '30s, radio carried potent political messages, from Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats to Fiorello La Guardia's reading of the comics during a newspaper strike to Father Charles Coughlin's charismatic hatemongering. Today that voice is still as personal as a conscience or a demon. Especially at midday, when the bass thud of a barroom rock band announces the arrival of Rush H. Limbaugh III, 41. "Ensconced in the Attila the Hun Chair...