Word: rooseveltism
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...opportunity to reverse Clinton's executive orders on land preservation. Second, one of Bush's long-time environmental advisors, Terry Anderson, has argued that the federal government should relinquish all rights to public lands over the next 40 years. These included the National Parks, first founded by (Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, in the early part of this century. Third, the State Legislature in Texas proposed, under Bush's tenure, to use public lands in order to allow private companies to make destination resorts. In short, much of Bush's perspective on environmentalism revolves around looking at the environment...
After a struggle of nearly 60 years, a bronze life-size statue of FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT in his wheelchair will be dedicated in Washington by PRESIDENT CLINTON this week. Roosevelt, who never took an unaided step after his polio attack in 1921, directed the war against the Great Depression and the Axis powers from a wheelchair, but most were not aware of his disability: he obscured it, fearful of electoral disapproval. Only two photographs of him in a wheelchair exist. Red tape and partisan wrangling stymied the memorial until five years ago, but then the arguments within the Roosevelt family...
...said he acted in the context of the Lampoon's rivalry with The Crimson, which dates back to the Crimson presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...presidency "the Restoration." In most places, when the eldest son of a country's highest leader succeeds his father, they call that a monarchy. That's why I'd urge George to go easy on all the finery. Maybe he can take his example from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, who permitted that the White House - which, by the way, the founders called the People's House - be open on inauguration day to ordinary folks, the same folks who pay the president's salary...
...lonely splendor of the spartan but magnificently located office seven stories above Pennsylvania Avenue is a dream job to a poor but idealistic Jersey City boy who bootstrapped his way through law school aspiring to public service like his childhood heroes, trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt and gangbuster Tom Dewey...