Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five private telephone lines in his office-one of which runs to the office of Robinson, who is his special assistant for community relations, on Rocky's personal payroll. Many of his associates believe that not business but politics will be the major future pursuit of Jack Roosevelt Robinson...
...Romney likes to say-and he said it again last week in Cincinnati-he is "as conservative as the Constitution, as progressive as Teddy Roosevelt, and as liberal as Mr. Lincoln." He has yet to show unequivocally which Romney is for real...
Last week's Russian journey is perhaps De Gaulle's grandest gesture-and quite likely his most valuable. Since 1945, when he was declared odd man out at Yalta by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, De Gaulle has put France back on the map as a major world power. He ended the debilitating war in Algeria and added a new dimension to Western handling of the "Third World"; he blew life into the Common Market, even if he chilled the aspirations of those who saw it as a way to political unity on the Continent. In one fell swoop...
Beyond these, the U.S. has been sparing in awarding even part-time hero status to its Presidents. Andrew Jackson probably makes it, though more because he was Old Hickory "who brought the people into the White House" than because he was the victor of New Orleans. Teddy Roosevelt may have changed the course of human events less significantly than Woodrow Wilson, who led the U.S. into World War I. But Teddy's robust vigor captured the American imagination, while there lingered about Wilson, even in his martyrdom, a distressing air of the austere schoolmaster...
With increasing sophistication, Americans no longer seem impressed with a born-in-a-log-cabin background. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were born to wealth and flaunted shamelessly expensive tastes (while no one was much interested in Nixon's poorboy origin). Roosevelt demonstrated a characteristic of the classic hero, who, according to Historian Wecter, "envisages his era as a crisis, a drama of good versus evil, and himself as the man of destiny. In a sense, he must be a hero to himself before he can command that worship in others." Kennedy's record is mixed...