Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opened a card that my sister had slipped me quietly that night before going to bed. She had inscribed a quote from Theodore Roosevelt on the inside cover. Happy are those who live life to its flushed, excited, chaotic fullest, he said. To live in the shadows, to be afraid of failure, is the greatest mistake. I had only rarely done my best as a big brother, and this thought struck me hard as I began...
...feel badly because it was just recently that my mind finally caught up to my body. Although I am loathe to admit it, I think that Harvard intimidated me to the point that I lost some of my identity and forgot my sister's advice (via Teddy Roosevelt). I remember reading Julian Barnes' essay in the pre-frosh materials, and I marveled at the time that the President of the Crimson had been afraid to speak up in section as a first-year. Such timidity is reserved for regular guys like...
...course, George Bush's loss means that all bets are off for the Republicans. The party will wrench itself through a purging and soul-searching process the like of which hasn't been since the Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 years in the White House. (A process that finally gave the GOP Dwight D. Eisenhower, a popular improvement over Herbert C. Hoover of immense proportions.) The outcome of this process is anyone's guess...
Clinton linked himself to America's heroes, suggesting that a vote for him honored the ideas of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, the sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln, the optimism of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and the commitment to the future espoused by John F. Kennedy...
...against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...