Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desire for beauty and the hunger for community. . . Where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the nation." With these lofty words, he launched the most ambitious agenda of social and economic reform since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...public square -- long shadowed by suspicion -- must regain prestige. And one in which the often overlooked social legacy of the New Deal must come back into focus. Here, Robert Reich, one of Clinton's closest policy advisers, points us in the right direction when he maintains that "Roosevelt's boldest innovation had been designating the nation as a community." In a day of multiculturalism, a day of rapidly changing demographics, the challenge of rebuilding the architecture of community looms larger than ever before. If Clinton can cement the coalition his campaign scraped together -- bringing disparate interests and values into some...
...pressing the flesh, Clinton was a brilliant campaigner. Almost too brilliant: toward the end his biggest vulnerability was his reputation as a dexterous accommodator, the schoolboy politician perennially concerned about preserving his political viability. On one of his last nights on the trail, Clinton told a crowd that Teddy Roosevelt had shaken thousands of hands at his Inauguration. "Maybe this is a record I will break," Clinton exulted. Maybe, but once he takes office the born pleaser will have to master a different art: that of displeasing people. He will need the courage to do more than husband his success...
...other hand, has displayed an almost evangelical faith in the ability of government to improve people's lives. If he can turn his "new covenant" rhetoric into reality, he has the chance to personify the type of mood swing ushered in by the rough-riding progressivism of Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 and the New Frontier of John Kennedy...
Once again, the mainspring that turns the cycle is generational. "It is only once in a generation that a people can be lifted above material things," President Woodrow Wilson explained to his youthful Assistant Secretary of the Navy. That young man was Franklin Roosevelt, and his activist presidency was the formative experience for the generation that came to fruition with Kennedy. Now the torch is being passed to the generation that was touched and inspired by Kennedy. Indeed, the most memorable moment in the convention video about the man from Hope was the scene of the eager student being inspired...