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...Shirley Cothran Barrett, 29. Barrett, in fact, appears fully wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive today and had braces put on her teeth at, say, age 60, she could have near perfect dentition within a couple of years...
...capsule account of the 1960 presidential race and White's portrait of triumphant John Kennedy as the most prescient, commanding politician he had encountered. Early in his final work, White does mouth some of the same hero-worship, saying that JFK alone might qualify as "a rare personality--a Roosevelt, a Churchill, a Mao, a Monet--[who] might alter the direction of the forces, and make his own life a legend, a starting point of future departures...
Reagan held forth for 20 minutes. Franklin Roosevelt, he said, had run in the 1936 election on a program of lowering unemployment through higher deficits, but that policy had not worked. "It took World War II to cure that," Reagan argued. A presidential survey of the failings of postwar Keynesianism was followed by a primer on Reaganomics: cutting the level of Government spending, deregulation and a tax program to stimulate investment. U.S. inflation was coming down, and unemployment, he hastened to add, started rising before his election; as for the recession, well, that was the Federal Reserve's fault...
...heard only the shouts of children. Church bells up and down the coast tolled in those morning hours, and the story of the great invasion was recounted over and over. Nancy Reagan's party paused before a German bunker, preserved as a memorial, with the words of Franklin Roosevelt carved across its top: "We would rather die on our feet than live on our knees...
Nixon's best stroke of comparative public relations has arisen from disclosures that, almost since the invention of recording tape, Presidents have surreptitiously recorded conversations in the Oval Office. Franklin Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. John Kennedy did it. The new knowledge of such taping has helped Nixon's negotiation with history, or at least his case in the public perception. It should not. Taping conversations on the sly is not polite. It is often morally wrong. But the fact that he taped his conversations did not destroy Nixon's presidency. It was what...