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...only 6 percent disapprove. On Oct. 8, Gallup reported that 90 percent approve of the bombings in Afghanistan and only 5 percent disapprove. Such numbers are unheard of: since the first national presidential approval polls were taken in the 1930s, the highest approval rating ever was Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1903, at 84 percent following the bombing of Pearl Harbor...
...told Americans that this is going to be a long campaign that will test both our resources and our will. "Freedom and fear are at war," he declared. "We will not tire. We will not falter, and we will not fail." And even as he spoke, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt steamed toward the Mediterranean and points east, and more than 100 warplanes moved into position...
...rest of the country is faced by an urgent imperative to think on the scale of Boston’s Big Dig: population growth. In 1940, around the time of the great construction boom of the Roosevelt era, the U.S. population was 132 million, according to the Census Bureau. In 1956, when the last big infrastructure project—the Interstate Highway System—was proposed, the population was 168 million. Today, there are 285 million Americans, twice as many as our infrastructure was built to handle...
...well our aging infrastructure handles it. Eventually, resources that need to be rebuilt or expanded will be, but if we don’t do anything now, we will have lost the opportunity to renew our public works in broad, ambitious strokes like those of Roosevelt...
...Sept. 20, I had to ask myself, “Am I unpatriotic?” President George W. Bush was delivering what many have called an inspiring speech to a joint session of Congress. After it was over, pundits compared it to the epochal performance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson executive, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. For me, however, it felt shallow...