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...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
Churchill had a string of spectacular failures as well as successes. So did Franklin Roosevelt in domestic policy during his struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least...
...early days of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, Hopkins was summoned to the White House to take what was termed "important" dictation. Louis Howe, the gnomelike aide who was chief secretary, did the dictating that night while Roosevelt listened. It was a statement announcing the closing of all U.S. banks. Hopkins got it down in shorthand and said he would rush to get it typed. No time for that, insisted Howe. So Hopkins sat back down and penned a declaration that signaled a firmer Government hand in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression...
Ever since the days of Theodore Roosevelt our response to any unrest in Central America and the Caribbean has been to "send in the marines". Isn't about time to reassess this policy? There is only one true democracy in Central America--Costa Rica. Costa Rica is also the only nation in the region without a standing army. There is a lesson to be learned here. The way to achieve democracy is not through military might, but by improving economic conditions to create a climate for peaceful political reform. Andrew L. Strom...
...tendency to argue that Ronald Reagan is an aberration who does not represent the true will of the voters or the political center of the nation. This is a fallacy. His election was the culmination of a trend in American politics that began with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt and that has steadily moved the political center to the right in this country...