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...cheerful areas, such as the War of 1812, which "U.S. History for Dummies" quite rightly describes as "goofy." And uncomfortable silences can be relieved by pointing at the beer and bringing up the invention of lager in Milwaukee or chatting up the uncle hiding behind the grill about Teddy Roosevelt and the Meat Inspection...
...Administration has justified its moves by citing a 1942 Supreme Court decision that allowed Franklin Roosevelt to try eight German saboteurs in front of a military tribunal. In that case, known as Ex parte Quirin, the justices ruled that the Commander in Chief has the right to try unlawful combatants before a tribunal. But they also ruled that the defendants had a right to appeal their status in federal court. And the decision says nothing about detaining combatants indefinitely or denying them counsel. "To use Quirin to justify indefinite detention of Americans is to extend it far beyond the circumstances...
...picks a tube of paint off her desk that’s marked “W.P.A.”—the Works Progress Administration, started by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. The paint in the tubes is still remarkably supple over a half-century later...
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who Galbraith called the largest political influences in his life, ruled America as if it were an extension of their Hyde Park home, Galbraith said...
Galbraith was born in Canada in 1908, and was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of California. He came to Harvard permanently in 1948 after administering a wartime system of price controls under Roosevelt...