Word: rooseveltisms
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...thing that will be very familiar to the new First Family is city life. Unlike every other President stretching all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt, Obama has spent his entire life living in urban areas. Some of his supporters believe this background makes him more culturally sophisticated than many of his predecessors (they're relieved he won't call the city "Warshington"), while others say it allows him to better understand multicultural, 21st century America. But the fact that Obama has spent weekends walking down the street to the barbershop instead of riding a 4x4 across a ranch...
...Chicago (3 million). Obama's hometown of Honolulu, with a population of 300,000, is the smallest place he has ever lived. Compare that with Hope, Ark. (pop. 10,000), or Crawford, Texas (pop. 789). "The last President who was grounded in a city the same way was Theodore Roosevelt," says Ed Glaeser, director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard University. (In Roosevelt's case, the city was New York...
...Klein's teddy awards honoring courage in the political arena: A John McCain regime would have probably finished the job that the Republicans began so well of dismantling the National Parks system [Dec. 29]. This - and the concept that we should protect our national resources - is Teddy Roosevelt's greatest heritage. You really think he'd like McCain? Richard Bagwell, Berkeley, Calif...
...Klein's Teddy awards honoring courage in the political arena: A John McCain regime would have probably finished the job that the Republicans began so well of dismantling the National Parks system [Dec. 29]. This--and the concept that we should protect our national resources--is Teddy Roosevelt's greatest heritage. You really think he'd like McCain? Richard Bagwell, BERKELEY, CALIF...
...Roosevelt's sons were fantastic scoundrels," says Bonnie Angelo, author of First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives. They would sneak around behind the lamplighter on Lafayette Square extinguishing the lamps he lit. They'd slide down the grand staircase on kitchen trays. "When Archie was sick, his brother Quentin - with the aid of a White House staffer - brought their pony Algonquin up to his room in the elevator to make him feel better," says Angelo. These pranks were tolerated, she notes, because the President enjoyed them more than anyone. "The only thing he stopped...