Word: rooseveltism
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1941 Leading America into the war against the Axis...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1932 Promising a New Deal amid the Depression...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1934 Basking in popular--and electoral--approval...
...downright hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said he looked like he'd been weaned on a pickle. DAVE ESPOSITO State College...
...millionaires-only club of American politics--once the small domain of names like Roosevelt, Rockefeller and Kennedy--has expanded to include all sorts of Regular Rich Guys. In the past election cycle, 145 candidates for Congress (up 10% from 1994) spent at least $100,000 of their own money on their campaigns. Nineteen spent $1 million or more. And with nearly a full year to go before the 1998 elections, 133 House hopefuls have plunked down at least $50,000 of their own cash. In California, Senate candidate Darrell Issa, a car-alarm magnate, has pledged...