Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...succeed." But several top Clinton aides say the President should stay home and address to the country from the Oval Office. Speaking for the national interest, they argue, requires a sober venue commensurate with the stakes. Like John Kennedy, however, Clinton fears overexposure. He is well aware that Franklin Roosevelt gave only four fireside chats during his first year in office (and only four more during his first term). Clinton knows too that it was F.D.R. himself who said "the public psychology cannot . . . be attuned for long periods of time to a constant repetition of the highest note...
...This 100-day business has been a tradition since Roosevelt, but it does not cast an administration or a president in concrete," Porter says...
...ability to engage in inside bargaining, negotiating and arm-twisting. [Lyndon Johnson] could do this, and Clinton is a lot closer in this way to Johnson than he is to Carter. The last skill is communication. Clinton can do this very well with large and small audiences, as Franklin Roosevelt could, and Reagan and Kennedy," he says...
Because Clinton embodies these qualities and has overcome a number of minor setbacks, "Clinton has even more of an element of success, as an individual, than even Roosevelt," Peterson says. "But this is a world where the parties are stronger than they were during the New Deal, there is no coherence in Congress, and Clinton has to deal with many more complex issues...
...middle of the afternoon last Wednesday and in a rare break from meetings on Bosnia, the White House first team met in the Roosevelt Room to get the Administration back "on message." There were the President and Hillary, Vice President Al Gore and Tipper and the senior staff, plus Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm and campaign consultants < Paul Begala and James Carville. The day before, the President had surprised reporters by admitting in the Oval Office that he could use a little "tighter coordination" and "a little better focus...