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MILESTONES: Terry Nichols is spared; Roosevelt Brown is dead...
...DIED. ROOSEVELT BROWN, 71, Hall of Fame offensive tackle who spent a half-century with the New York Giants; of an apparent heart attack; in Columbus, N.J. He joined the Giants in 1953 and never left. After a 13year playing career, during which his team won seven titles, he stayed on as assistant coach and scout. One of the game's most skilled blockers, he cleared the way for stars like running back Frank Gifford, who said, "I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren...
...Sept. 11 did not happen on his watch. That is understandable (if characteristically self-centered) because the best chance any President has for greatness is to be in power during war or disaster. Apart from the Founders, the only great President we have had in good times is Theodore Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt were the "luckiest" of them all, having had the opportunity to take the country triumphantly through the two greatest wars in U.S. history...
...call "the mashed-potato circuit." When the conservatives rallied behind the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater in 1964, Reagan's gift for oratory provided one of the unexpected highlights in the doomed campaign. "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny," Reagan declared (borrowing one of Franklin Roosevelt's most famous lines) to a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles. "We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness...
...served as an economic adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt and worked with every subsequent president through Bill Clinton...