Word: rooseveltism
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Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept the Federal Government as the solution to problems, a vast parental presence. Ronald Reagan preached that government was the problem, but his Administration focused mostly on the Evil Empire; it did not overturn the grand centralizing legacy of New Deal and Great Society. Newt Gingrich wants to reverse the physics, make American government truly centrifugal, with power flowing out of Washington, devolving to the states...
Still, the architects point out they will try to preserve as many architectual details as possible. These include the memorial plaques and the moose head and antlers of deer killed by President Theodore Roosevelt, class...
Galbraith said he chose Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 because he helped foster a compassionate mood among the American public during the era of the Great Depression and the two World Wars, what Galbraith considers the defining events of our century...
Harvard offers a diverse array of opportunities for people of talent to associate, and the final clubs hardly stand as gatekeepers to future social or economic achievement. We've come a long way from the time when Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 identified his greatest failure as getting blackballed from the Porcellian Club. Future success is a product more of skill, dedication, and luck, than connections with wealthy club alumni. And at least that way you don't have to wear drag...
...think that I will make the person of the millennium Franklin D. Roosevelt ['04], who tackled both the problems of the great depression and the great war," said John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics, emeritus, and a participant on the panel...