Word: rooseveltism
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...both filmmaker Michael Moore and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh are in the entertainment business. And business is good. Timothy J. Hayes Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. I don't know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration and have never seen anything like the division in the U.S. today. The public reaction to the Joe McCarthy witch hunts in the 1950s, the 1954 court decision on separate-but-equal schooling, the 1964 civil rights legislation and the 1974 Watergate affair did not exhibit the deep schisms...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...
...Looking back at Deng, I am reminded of Harry Truman. Both lived in the shadow of great charismatic leaders?for Deng it was Chairman Mao, for Truman, Franklin Roosevelt. Both were from the heartland of their respective countries?Deng from Sichuan, Truman from Missouri?and both reflected in speech and character the nature of their homes. They were both devoted to their wives and children, and both fought bravely in war. With the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Bretton Woods international financial institutions, and aid to Greece and Turkey, Truman saved Europe from the Soviet Union and sowed the seeds that...
...revelation that it was "just election-year politics" has allowed Washington to breathe a sigh of relief. "I'm satisfied that the matter is neither unfair nor dangerous," pronounced former House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, shortly before addressing the annual convention of the American Kennel Club on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love of dogs...
...country would have been if Abigail Adams hadn't been the wife of John Adams? The intelligence, the support, the capability, the management. Everything. The woman was unbelievable. I think that different women in this century have shown different types of strength, like Betty Ford with her problems. Eleanor Roosevelt, of course. She was a woman of her own making. And then there are some other wives that were more traditional wives and part of a certain time. Then you have someone like Hillary Clinton, who is more modern in the sense of wanting to be the woman politician...