Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teddy Roosevelt...
...native of Iowa, Hoover was defeated in 1932 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a bid for a second term. The electorate blamed him for the depression that hit the country seven months after his inauguration...
Although he lacks the style and personality which made the late President a matchless national leader, Johnson possesses a knowledge of the Congress which has made him a superb legislative leader. In fact, no President in this century, not even Roosevelt, has had a better relationship (or more experience) with Congress; even his enemies willingly concede his political potency...
...elected in 1932, but it was a far more ingenious catch phrase than the Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well; the term was the title of a 1914 book by British Political Psychologist Graham Wallas, and the idea is as old as Plato...
...appointing Supreme Court Justices for political reasons is dubious business. Teddy Roosevelt thought he had a dutiful trustbuster in Holmes. Then Holmes handed down his first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that...