Word: rooseveltism
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...serious runs for the White House, although neither came close. Americans will elect a political neophyte only if he passes the Hamilton test of pre-eminent ability. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight Eisenhower had never held elective office, but they won their wars. Some Presidents pass both tests: Theodore Roosevelt fought well in the Spanish-American War and in New York State politics. Among the prospective 2008 candidates, only one has shown pre-eminent ability: Rudy Giuliani, in solving the crime problem in the nation's largest city and in his response to 9/11...
Although the press often mentioned Theodore Roosevelt, a Class of 1880 graduate who was about to complete his second term as U.S. president—as a candidate, he failed to make the Corporation’s shortlist...
...took the suggestion seriously enough to put it even in this miscellaneous list,” Greene wrote about Roosevelt...
Even President Roosevelt weighed in on the decision, telling the Boston Evening Herald that he was “pleased as punch” with Lowell’s selection. A successful tenure in office would “confer an immense benefit on American intellectual life,” The Nation wrote...
...mother is a teacher; my father is a small-business owner; a friend is a lawyer; my brother is a doctor. We are not even candidates to be the Person of the Year. The pool of choices should be limited to Presidents, generals, Prime Ministers and Popes. Names like Roosevelt, Truman, Elizabeth II, Hitler, Stalin and John Paul II should be succeeded by other similarly important and influential ones. We are simply people with jobs, families and ordinary lives. The Person of the Year should be extraordinary. Time's choice was anything but. Scott Flatto Brookline, Massachusetts...