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When Theodore Roosevelt challenged William Howard Taft for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912, few cheered. Enemies accused him of monumental egotism, and most admirers, foreseeing his defeat, were worried that posterity would frown on his quest for an unprecedented third term. But as Roosevelt saw it, he had to involve himself. He had left the White House in 1909 with the expectation that Taft, his good friend and chosen successor, would continue on the progressive course set by the Roosevelt Administration. Instead, Taft had filled his Cabinet with corporate lawyers, bungled a chance to overhaul an antiquated tariff that...
Then came the midterm elections of 1910. The G.O.P. lost control of the House, and Roosevelt began criticizing Taft's policies in print. The final rupture occurred a year later when Taft's Attorney General filed an antitrust suit against the U.S. Steel Corp. because of a 1907 acquisition that Roosevelt had personally approved. T.R. was outraged. The decision to challenge Taft soon followed. T.R.'s campaign would not succeed, but the ideals that he and his Bull Moose Party enunciated in 1912 would resonate in American political life for decades. They still do. They shaped much of Franklin Roosevelt...
Seattle coach Bill Resler calls his Roosevelt High girls' basketball team a "pride of lions." Which sounds simple and uplifting until he explains that in the jungle, female lions leave the males and go prowling to "kill and devour" their foe. His offensive strategy: he has none, instead establishing a pressing defense that exhausts the opponent...
...President Franklin Roosevelt said it well: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." TIME's reporting on the NSA seems aimed at making the American people paranoid. Let the civil libertarians be anxious. If monitoring our phones keeps just one American from being harmed, the government can listen to my calls anytime it wants. Norm Rossell Fallbrook, California...
Galbraith was a devoted Democrat and advised Presidents Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was a socially aware thinker who lamented the proliferation of economists who were “good at the blackboard” but did not apply their theories to real situations, a class of thinker that he called “esoteric,” according to his biographer, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Richard Parker...