Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Teddy Roosevelt...
...reclaim a bit of her policy role by saying she intended to take a more "comprehensive" role in the White House, meaning she would be an active "voice for children" and an advocate of programs to promote their interests. "I have recollections of extraordinary policy roles taken by Eleanor Roosevelt and very strong positions on the environment by Lady Bird Johnson," she told TIME...
Republicans got some wicked comfort noting that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight...
...Teddy Roosevelt...
...determine whether Bush, whose standing in the polls bounced up to near competitive levels last week following his precipitous decline, can win in November. If he cannot, he will be the first elected Republican President to be denied a second term since Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt...