Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students mingled with their friends in the MAC Quad, drawing near the stage to hear partisan rhetoric from two Republicans--Susan Roosevelt Weld and national convention spokesperson Mark Merritt--and five Democrats, including Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos and U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich...
Institutionally, however, Perot succeeded. None of the other major third-party candidates of the 20th century--Teddy Roosevelt, Robert LaFollette, George Wallace and John Anderson--came back to run again four years after their first race. The task is too challenging. But Perot did come back, did get on ballots in all 50 states and even renewed some personal credibility late in October, when the sad state of campaign finances and evidence of two-party corruption made him prophetic on yet another issue. More important, the 8% of the national vote Perot drew on Nov. 5 qualifies his Reform Party...
...thesauruses in the search for new synonyms for doleful, dreary and vacuous. Ordinary folks made the classic finger-in-throat gesture, or pitched forward face first into their azalea beds. On the cover of the Nation, presidential history was depicted as a Darwinian descent from the triumphantly upright Franklin Roosevelt on down to an invertebrate Clinton-Dole level just above the primordial scum...
...brink of a resounding reelection--the first for a Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Kerry, a two-term incumbent, holds the reins to the Commonwealth's ubiquitous network of unions, senior citizens and minorities, while Weld, a libertarian who supports gay rights and affirmative action, received more than 70 percent of the vote in his 1994 re-election campaign against Mark Roosevelt...