Word: rooseveltism
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...reserve judgment, let the investigation proceed and bear with the Great Explainer's refusal to explain much of anything. So after days of watery nondenials and rumors of resignation, last Monday Clinton finally gave voters who wanted to believe in him an excuse to do so. In the Roosevelt Room of the White House Monday morning, with Hillary beside him, he stared into the camera and narrowed his eyes. "I want you to listen to me," he said. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never...
...dead. We are constantly educated with and measured against the scholarship, philosophies and lifestyles of those who came before us. The slate headstones of Harvard presidents and professors, slanting with age, cast long shadows, as do the names on the room histories distributed to every first-year: Emerson, Roosevelt, Kennedy. Sometimes it feels like they are watching over us. Sometimes we have to watch over them...
Olney countered that presidents Eisenhower,Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly hadaffairs while remaining successful presidents...
...have so unrepentantly and blithely and cynically--and maybe pathologically--persisted. Some Clinton haters indulged in mere prurient dudgeon. But plenty of parents were incensed in a nonpartisan way by the thought that the young woman might have been thus debauched in the house of Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Could the President truly have divided his time between worrying about his place in history and corrupting an intern? Now he may have a convergence, with the second activity defining the first...
...early days as President, when it seemed as though great things were still possible, Bill Clinton steeped himself in the histories of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. But as he prepares for his sixth State of the Union speech next week, this President, so publicly fixated on the 21st century, is spending his private hours pondering the quiescent, almost forgotten stretches of the 19th, the times Clinton calls "fallow periods." The biographies he has devoured lately include those of such unimpressive Chief Executives as Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant. He even had adviser Sidney Blumenthal...