Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Probably somewhere between Roosevelt and Kennedy. The economy is not as devastated as it was under Roosevelt, and the changes we need to make don't involve as much Big Government or Keynesian economics, but they are quite profound. There's a sense that we need to get the country moving again. That's what Kennedy brought to the White House. But structurally the things we have to do here at home are more profound than what we had to face...
...Blair House session was held in a first-floor conference room dominated by a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt. At least one of Clinton's aides noted the irony: "Here it was Pearl Harbor Day, and we were dropping an economic bombshell on the boss under a painting of the Depression President." To minimize the chances of Clinton's insisting on a line-by-line reassessment of his plan's assumptions, a chart titled Budget Deficit Forecasts Under PPF Policies was, according to one Clinton aide, "rounded off in a conelike fashion and rendered approximate." It was a fool's errand...
...themselves . . . It is also to provide the public with alternative visions of what is desirable and possible, to stimulate deliberation about them, provoke a reexamination of premises and values, and thus to broaden the range of potential responses and deepen society's understanding of itself." Or, as Franklin Roosevelt once said, "All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified." As an admirer of both Reich and Roosevelt, Clinton views their analyses as crucial to his overarching goal. His proudest achievement so far, he says...
...hands-on attention for the foreign policy work of the National Security Council, the way Bush and many previous Presidents have done. Clinton's action also signaled his intention to restrict the power of Cabinet officers and to play them off against one another in the manner of Franklin Roosevelt...
...change the world." As a journalist covering California's 1978 tax revolt, however, he began to question liberal orthodoxy. "It seemed to me that I was watching a watershed event -- the end of the era of ever growing government spending that had begun with Franklin Roosevelt," he recalls. "I felt that progressives needed to take the lead in reforming taxes and making government more responsive...