Word: rooseveltism
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...Clinton's predicament has but one historical precedent, Andrew Johnson's, Hillary Rodham Clinton's current position has none. After surviving the most painful year one could imagine, Hillary has begun to do something no other First Lady--not the second Mrs. Wilson, not Nancy Reagan, not even Eleanor Roosevelt--ever did: create a political base independent of her spouse's. In the new TIME/CNN poll, 70% view her favorably. And her popularity has caused talk, encouraged by New Jersey Senator Robert Torricelli, a close White House ally, that she may run for the Senate from New York...
...leaders who gave eugenics their blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...
...think of President Clinton, a man who by his own admission "misled" his people. And they think of a nation where more than 70 percent of the citizens approve of a leader who has lied to them and a chief lawmaker who has broken the law. Could Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, have credibly challenged Adolf Hitler under these circumstances? Could Harry S Truman have dropped an atomic bomb and persuaded Americans he did it to save Allied lives if he had lied to his people even one time? Could John F. Kennedy '40 have forced Nikita S. Khrushchev...
Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...timers used to tell me that taking part in Roosevelt's New Deal was one of the greatest political experiences in history. Any good idea got a hearing. Those programs that did not work were torn up, and the young, brainy aides would start over the next day. At night, when Roosevelt gathered his band of political warriors around him, there was robust laughter and the tinkle of his martini pitcher and his long cigarette holder pointed at a rakish angle, which signaled to everybody that the U.S. was rising from its fear...