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...State of the Union address, Theodore Roosevelt, dismayed that there were no laws to "hamper an unscrupulous man of unlimited means from buying his own way into office," proposed "a very radical measure" he hoped might make elections more fair and transparent. (To his great embarrassment, Roosevelt himself had been hit with accusations that he promised a French ambassadorship to a senator from New York in exchange for $200,000 in big business campaign donations.) "The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided ... an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery...
...however, public finance advocates fear that Democratic candidate Barack Obama's decision to change his position and forgo all public funding may signal an end to Roosevelt's apparatus for good. Obama, who would get about $84 million in public funds for the general election, stands to raise hundreds of millions more through private donations. The Illinois Senator contends he'll need that money to fend off attacks from tax-exempt advocacy organizations - known as 527 groups, after the section of the tax code under which they are formed - which, Obama said, will spend "millions and millions of dollars...
...After the pasting the G.O.P. took in 2006, Republican pols like Crist and Schwarzenegger vowed to pull the party "back to its roots," says Crist, "to the moderate, commonsense leadership tradition of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. In Senator McCain we've nominated the best guy to carry that message." And in Florida, it's a banner whose colors will likely have to be more green than...
...Ourselves Your story should have been titled "How the President Could Encourage, Cajole and Bully Congress to Try to Fix the U.S. Economy" [June 2]. For each of your economic issues, the President has little if any direct or unilateral power. No doubt every President has secretly shared Theodore Roosevelt's daydream: "If I could only be President and Congress too for just 10 minutes." But without an explanation of the President's actual powers, your article sets up yet another generation of Americans to be disillusioned when its chosen candidate fails to produce the promised manna that...
...that, in a society in which obesity is omnipresent, a slightly hefty child looks pretty normal, relatively speaking, says psychologist Susan Carnell, the lead researcher for the British study on parental perceptions, who is now at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital. "The parents are likely to be overweight. The clinician who sees the child could well be overweight. It's a sensitive issue from all sides...