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...Democrats gathered in Washington two weekends ago to blast the policies of President Reagan and deny the allegations that liberalism has died. The occasion was the national convention of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), where the largest crowd since 1974 had gathered to celebrate the "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Tradition." In speech after speech, liberal congressmen, prominent academics and labor leaders attacked Reagan and reaffirmed their belief in the values and the coalition of Roosevelt...
...dogged desperation with which he attacked his problems born out of the fatalism that in the end nothing ever worked as intended. His courage was all the more remarkable because it was not tied to a faith in ultimate success that distinguished leaders like De Gaulle or Churchill or Roosevelt...
...scathing article for the Atlantic Monthly, Frankfurter argued the need for criminal justice reform after Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death. In 1933 he engineered John Maynard Keynes' open letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New York Times, urging the President to forsake balancing the budget and adopt deficit spending to spark the economy, a position favored by Brandeis...
...have since learned, Kennedy did more taping. So did Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, in various amounts, for what their chroniclers now suggest were various reasons. All were strong Presidents in different ways, yet all felt it necessary for protection to make secret records of what was said in the Oval Office...
...have finally decided on my alltime hero: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Whatever his failures, they were all overshadowed by his monumental deeds...