Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During non-presidential election years when a Republican has held the White House, the GOP has never in its history gained House seats. Democrats have only gained seats once in an off year in which they held the White House. That was in 1934 at the height of President Roosevelt's prewar popularity...
...climbed up from Norway and made its way into the thinnest, coldest air. The planet became a fluffy abstraction beneath the wings. Time warped. A man who was in Auschwitz as a boy walked down the aisle to borrow the Wall Street Journal. Someone told a joke about Eleanor Roosevelt. Survivors and ghosts at 35,000 feet -- moral afterlives...
Personal background: Weld was born in Smithtown, N.Y., the son of an investment banker. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Susan Roosevelt, and their five children. He has an undergraduate degree and a law degree from Harvard. He also holds a diploma in economics and political science from Oxford University...
...sometimes overlooked or even pampered another, potentially greater source of trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where he now sits in jail...
...Watch and learn," the President said as events unfolded last week -- a boast reminiscent of an earlier bit of Bush self-analysis: "Maybe I'll turn out to be a Teddy Roosevelt...