Word: rooseveltism
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...Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...
...Populist Party that arose from that ferment was short-lived, but the common-man sentiments that it crystallized lived on. Separately or together they ran through the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing radio priesthood of Father Coughlin. And the Republican Revolution of 1994. "But the Republican populism of the past generation or so has been all antigovernment," says historian Alan Brinkley. "Buchanan is putting back the anticorporate elements...
...Dionne, Gingrich's radical anti-government posture is an attack on the legacy of Progressivism, as established by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The great Progressive belief was that government should be used "to expand individual choice and protect communities, [in] an effort to improve living standards across the society...." Gingrich sees every act of government as an assault on freedom; but the lesson of the 20th century, for Dionne, is that government is crucial for preserving individual rights in ways that the market...
...description of the Darwinian world of fists evoked by American realist writers like Frank Norris and Jack London, lagged behind literature by 10 years or more, but its attachment to images of clash and struggle aligned it squarely with the American cultural ideology of the day--Theodore Roosevelt's praise of the strenuous life...
SOUTH CAROLINA: Born during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, trapped behind German lines on D day, and the only person ever to win a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate, Strom Thurmond appears tanned and ready to run for an unprecedented eighth term. "He is a fascinating man, and too easily discounted," reports TIME's Lisa H. Towle from Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't think there is a South Carolinian alive today who has not received a letter from him. When you graduate from high school, he sends you a letter. Everybody." It is Thurmond's service...