Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only time [these conversations] made sense was during Roosevelt's term," Peterson says...
Peterson, Porter and others trace the first 100-day presidential analysis back to the term of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. In his first few months, Roosevelt enacted an enormous amount of legislation, including a much needed economic program that provided depression relief, loans and jobs through a variety of federal agencies...
...study, and after the election he indicated that he would do the same with the Carter presidency. Initially, he seemed to enjoy Lyndon Johnson's rapport with Congress and Ronald Reagan's popularity among the electorate. And the first-hundred-days legislative agenda he proposed promised to rival Franklin Roosevelt's. But there is one person whose playbook he has neglected to borrow: his wife...
Last week the Clintons reversed their usual roles. Both were trapped for hours at a time in the Roosevelt Room for the final presentations of the task- force leaders, when one of the briefers droned on about five minutes too long. Hillary started reading her notes, obviously impatient, but she left it to her husband to circle his arm in the air to get the guy to move it along...
...Saturday morning, 10 advisers in coats and ties and one in a skirt were seated around the table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, awaiting their Commander in Chief. This was the moment of truth, when Bill Clinton -- breezing in wearing a golf shirt -- would wrestle with the options for action in Bosnia one more time. For more than four hours, the advisers went over the pros, but mainly the cons, of military intervention in Bosnia. "The President listened and everyone talked," said one participant. "It was not a session called to ratify his ready-made decisions." Only...