Word: rooseveltianism
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...fact that my red home state of Indiana went blue for Obama while it re-elected Daniels is a welcome signal that Hoosiers are reviving the saner, compromise-friendly politics I grew up with, including Lincolnesque Republicans like Senator Richard Lugar and Rooseveltian Democrats like former Congressman Lee Hamilton. They were civil-tongued consensus builders who presided over a pre-Lee Atwater, pre-MoveOn.org age, before the two parties let their wing nuts become their linchpins...
Reflecting the Rooseveltian view that "we have nothing to fear but fear itself," global stock markets rallied Tuesday for the second straight day, amid a flurry of government moves to prevent rocked financial and banking systems from collapsing. Less than a day after European leaders revealed a collective commitment of more than $1 trillion in capital injections and interbank loan guarantees, a 14% bound by Tokyo's Nikkei index led surges across Asia. Bourses in Europe also opened with renewed gains ahead of Wall Street's 3.8% opening spurt. Yet the burst of renewed confidence inspired sober observers to take...
...begun conducting military drills in Harvard Yard—much to the chagrin of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who hoped that the country could stay out of the conflict. TR feared that his son might be expelled, but “Lowell, besieged by alumni with a Rooseveltian view of preparedness, backed down...
...increase home ownership and fight disorderly behavior. The economy is strong, and the MORI poll shows that people are getting more optimistic that Labour can deliver on its long-promised improvements in health and education. "The question for the Labour Party is whether it can aim for a Rooseveltian term of office," says Denis MacShane, Labour's Minister for Europe, referring to F.D.R.'s renewal of his Administration's energy and policies during his long presidency. But even as Labour eyes another four years in power, the contrast between Roosevelt's war and Blair's has to make them feel...
Which is why we will be celebrating Jefferson at the next Library of Congress centenary too. He so embodies America in all its sprawling contradictory greatness: the Wilsonian idealist prepared to engage in ruthless Rooseveltian realism; the worshipper of system, order and science who is given to romance--with France, with revolution, with the American West; the practical inventor and tinkerer, yet endowed with the capacity to compose the most lyrical, most transcendent assertion of human liberty ever penned...