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Harvard had hoped to set a different record with the Reagan speech, which would have been the first time a sitting president had spoken since Theodore Roosevelt (Class...
...vice presidency almost by definition enforces an expectation of the second rate: the man is inherently a loser (he was not the President, after all) or at best a Sancho Panza. In the case of Andrew Johnson following Abraham Lincoln, the fear of mediocrity was fulfilled. When Franklin Roosevelt died, a god of the era gave place, it seemed, to democracy's least common denominator, a barking, weightless little haberdasher from Independence...
Only children score better on IQ tests, reach higher levels of education and get more prestigious jobs than people with siblings. Look at Leonardo da Vinci, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin. But there is a price for fame and glory. "Onlies" are associated with a host of irksome psychological traits -- among them impaired social skills and a nagging need for attention. Now it seems they may also suffer from a distinct physical handicap: higher blood pressure...
...Club, whose graduates include Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Gov. William F. Weld '66, was the subject of a complaint by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In two rulings last year, the commission found that it lacked jurisdiction to force the club to admit women...
...federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, mustache bristling, charged up San Juan Hill and into American mythology. In Eisenhower, one of the century's greatest generals, America found one of its better Presidents...