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Over and over the word recurred as Biographer Edmund Morris made his way through research on Theodore Roosevelt. His contemporaries talked of T.R.'s "sweetness." Even Roosevelt's political opponent Woodrow Wilson was smitten. "There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling," he said. "You can't resist the man." Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan and even the peevish Henry Adams all were beguiled at one time or another, according to Morris...
...Sweetness" was a word scorned by muscular America. It became "charm." And that is what T.R.'s fifth cousin Franklin Roosevelt was all about, says James Rowe, the Washington lawyer who at 28 became F.D.R.'s executive assistant. Franklin made people like him and want to please him. At their first meeting in the Oval Office, Roosevelt threw his head back, beamed up at Rowe and said, "Jim, I want your advice." Rowe was captive for life...
...initials stand for nothing) took Strout about eight hours to write, but all week he had been "storing up and getting mad at things." In recent years, anger at current issues often gave way to reminiscence, a valuable commodity in a capital with more monuments than memories. Strout considers Roosevelt "the greatest President of my time." He remembers the "charming, bumbling Eisenhower, who gave us a caretaker Government just when we wanted it, but who had the sense to look at the clock, not to try to turn it back." L.B.J. was "an elemental force" whose Viet Nam War Strout...
...prepared text or notes, the rumpled classicist drew from the range of ancient Greek literature, as he built up his unorthodox argument that Socrates and Plato were totalitarian, absolutist, and elitists to boot. Along the way, he made brief detours, for instance to call Solon the "Franklin D. Roosevelt of Athens" or to make a plug for studying the great classes ("All our feelings as human beings are there...
Vellucci, who compared Mondale to Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 said his support for the former Minnesota senator was based largely on the candidate's identification with the nation's "big labor movement" and his unmatched ability to "really challenge" President Reagan...