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...year was 1940, and the political master Franklin D. Roosevelt was speaking at a Jackson Day dinner about the glories of his beloved Democratic Party. "But the future lies with those wise political leaders," admonished F.D.R., "who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics...
That warning echoed in the aftermath of last week's election as triumphant Democrats let their hopes rise for a resurgence in national leadership. As if Roosevelt's ghost had sponsored him, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a biographer of F.D.R., showed up in Washington to extol his new book, The Cycles of American History, and offer his own resonant warnings that the "worship of party" could swallow up the purposes. "One wishes that the ^ intellectual energy expended in recent years on procedural reform had been devoted instead to the substance of our problems," wrote Schlesinger. "Nor are substantive problems...
...electorate have combined to insulate House elections from national forces. Presidential coattails have weakened greatly since the 1930s. Moreover, the state of the economy and other national conditions no longer affect House elections as strongly as in earlier eras. Consider that in the recession year of 1938 Roosevelt's Democrats lost 71 seats, in the recession year of 1958 Eisenhower's Republicans lost 48 seats, and in the recession year of 1982 Reagan's Republicans lost 26 seats. The five seat Republican loss of 1986 epitomizes the modern pattern of incumbent insulation. "All politics is local" exaggerates, but not much...
...candidate's resounding victory last night followed a hotly contested primary election six weeks ago. In that race, he faced a host of Democratic candidates in a field that eventually narrowed to include State Sen. George Bachrach, activist and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King, and James Roosevelt...
...White House ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with his friend Millet, he booked passage on the Titanic. Butt would have continued to elude historians had he not left three volumes of intimate correspondence of his years in the White House. To Author Seale, Archie Butt is a genuine hero...