Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each session, task-force leaders would present their progress on, for example, the emerging benefits package. Magaziner would listen, ask questions and nudge members in the direction he wanted. Magaziner kept the Clintons abreast of progress, and the President sometimes invited individual members over for briefings in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Tollgates would go on for 10 or 12 hours, sometimes 16, break for three or four, and then resume, often late at night. The process reached an absurd point when a tollgate continued past 2 o'clock on a Sunday morning...
...policy-wonk heaven," said Bergthold, who noted that years of health-care ideas were being dusted off and hotly debated. And the details came together. Benefits moved fast: at a Saturday-morning session in the Roosevelt Room, a jogging suit-clad Clinton ordered Magaziner to come up with a standard benefits package as good as or better than that of the typical worker, which meant the plan had to emphasize preventive care, including physicals and baby checkups, and some controversial procedures like abortion. But it would exclude cosmetic surgery, eyeglasses and borderline therapies, such as weight reduction...
...formulate his famous law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." In the U.S. this tendency takes the form of an amoeba-like multiplication of departments and agencies. Is a department or agency obsolete (some are still operating under directives signed by President Theodore Roosevelt)? Create a new one to do some of the same jobs. Does a new problem arise? Set up another new agency. Says Robert Stone, the project director for Gore: "As a rule, virtually any task being done by government is being done by 20 or more agencies...
...have a wife. The rest of the show is devoted to marrying him off and extracting him from the tentacles of the adhesive and ambitious commissioner. Along the way father faces financial ruin, daughter runs away and turns hobo, a potential wife plots to murder both, and Franklin D. Roosevelt gets, as he drolly hums it, "all dolled up" for a soigne soiree on the Staten Island ferry...
...days, Franklin Roosevelt could say (or so it is said) of Anastasio Somoza, "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." No longer. With the end of the great ideological wars, we could stop propping up our sons of bitches: our Somozas, our Trujillos, our Nguyen Cao Kys. We could subordinate foreign policy to morality, something Americans have hungered to do since Woodrow Wilson suggested the idea to an incredulous world almost a century...