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...book, A New Democracy, chapter epigraphs are pulled from Democratic heroes (Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt) but also from free-market Economists Adam Smith and George Stigler. Hart's hybrid ideology is bracing...
After flings with Keynesianism and supply-side economics, the U.S. should return to traditional conservative policies. That is Herbert Stein's message in Presidential Economics - The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond (Simon & Schuster; 414 pages; $16.95). Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1972 to 1974, describes how more than 30 years of such liberal standbys as tax cuts and increasing Government regulation helped bring about the runaway inflation of the late 1970s. "By 1980," he writes, "the country was ready for a more radical turn of economic policy...
last Saturday's seminar. "Eleanor Roosevelt: the Politics of Conscience," looked closely at the former First Lady's contributions to politics and also examined two of the main issues confronting women in government today the feminization of poverty and international human rights...
...explained that her deep interest in Eleanor Roosevelt inspired her to plan the event, to celebrate the centennial of Roosevelt's birth. "I was in Washington when the centennial of FDR's birthday was celebrated, and noticed that almost every time Eleanor Roosevelt came up it was almost in passing, when she was actually much more significant than that," Stier added...
Although the festivities were not attractive enough to secure an appearance by President Reagan in 1981, dignitaries including Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and former secretary of state Cyrus Vance have addressed graduating classes...