Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Income earned by serving as "consultant" for Sunrise at Campobello, the Broadway drama about his father: $18,615.21. Tax deduction, claiming that the play was an "invasion of privacy": $18,615.21. So filed Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 50, onetime Congressman, now Under Secretary of Commerce, on Form...
Turning to the presidential election, Lamont said, "we can all congratulate ourselves on the election results. I have confidence in my heart that Lyndon Johnson is a real Roosevelt new-dealer who is really sincere about civil rights and world peace...
...said that even with his huge majorities, Johnson cannot afford mistakes. Franklin Roosevelt had still larger majorities after the New Deal's high-water year of 1936. Once Roosevelt attempted to pass his court-packing bill, his majorities fell apart. The Johnson coalition, glued together not by the depression but by Barry Goldwater, could prove similarly collapsible...
...party power seems bleak indeed. In Republican history, only Thomas E. Dewey managed to suffer defeat (in 1944) and remain the dominant man in the party through the next election. But unlike Goldwater, Dewey had a powerful, well-oiled machine. Moreover, Dewey was beaten in 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt, a wartime hero of incomparable stature, and many people felt that Dewey should have another chance. Again, such is not the case with Goldwater. So Complete. In a broader sense, the conservative cause whose championship Goldwater assumed suffered a crippling setback. For a number of years, the conservative and moderate wings...
...election is over and the country waits: not for the returns--Lyndon Johnson has smashed to the greatest election victory since FDR crushed Alf Landon--but for the President's performance in the months ahead, for the fulfillment of the promise that his landslide gives. Will Johnson, like Roosevelt, find his massive mandate more of a hindrance than a help? Will he choose to compromise away his program to hold his consensus? Or will he move boldly and artfully to transform his huge plurality into the energetic legislation the country needs and has waited for so long...