Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidate is "a highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs." That was Walter Lippmann in 1932 talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...nasty marriage to Winston Churchill's dissolute son Randolph, Pam Churchill went on to form lucrative unions and strategic dalliances on both sides of the Atlantic. Her second husband was Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who died in 1971. She then married the aged Averell Harriman--Wall Street heir, Roosevelt New Dealer, diplomat and former Governor of New York. He had been her munificent lover in Britain during World War II. Other beaux of that exciting time and place included John Hay Whitney, Edward R. Murrow and his boss, CBS founder William Paley, who later crowned the red-haired beauty...
...department comprised the intellectual force behind the New Deal programs advanced by former president Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. And Bush-Quayle campaign officials complained in 1992 that Harvard was "a hotbed of liberalism...
Once upon a time the Palmetto State was a bastion of Democratism--of the 99,000 South Carolinians who voted for President in 1940, 96% were members of the old coalition party brought together by Franklin D. Roosevelt. As recently as 1976, Jimmy Carter won the state handily. But that was the last victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in South Carolina--the state gave George Bush his second highest percentage (after Mississippi) in the nation in 1992. A one-man symbol of this trend--and many others--is the state's 93-year-old Senior Senator Strom Thurmond...
...climes. This gave the state a legacy of sparsely settled natural beauty, which, over the past three decades, fostered a population increase of more than 48%. It was a liberal migration that contributed to a small political revolution: a state that was one of only two to vote against Roosevelt in 1936 in 1990 sent Congress its first Socialist Representative since...