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Indeed, even freshmen accustomed to slippery conditions were having problems yesterday. Jonathan Roosevelt '91, a Cambridge native, said that he was running through the Square yesterday with a new mug his mother had given him. "I slipped, flipped a somersault, landed on my butt and broke...
...Roosevelt received some minor bruises, and went home to sleep off his injuries. "But the cup is beyond repair," he said...
Perhaps they were being illogical in the expectation. Ronald Reagan's agenda when he came to Washington was to undo as much as possible the work of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now, after 59 months of consecutive economic growth in Reagan's Roaring Eighties, trouble arrived, and everyone (even businessmen who hate Government interference) expected Reagan to start sounding like F.D.R. They may even have wanted him to get on television after the crash and say, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Suddenly they wanted activism from a President who has always believed Government should essentially...
...theory of the presidency. They look back on, say, Harry Truman and John Kennedy as historical giants. In fact, neither man looked all that imposing when he was in the White House. Truman was often vilified as an undistinguished little haberdasher, utterly unfit to succeed a demigod like Franklin Roosevelt. Those underwhelmed by the current presidential candidates might remember that much civilized American opinion in 1860 regarded Abraham Lincoln as a half-literate backwoods disaster...
...political scientist, Michael Nelson, has observed that the Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to John Kennedy were generally portrayed as Saviors. Johnson and Nixon were cartooned as Satans, and Ford and Carter as Samsons -- weak Presidents shorn of their strength. Reagan seems to invite the thought that he has found a new model, the Salesman, in the last act, standing on a stage about to go dark...