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Americans have long struggled to find the balance between the public good and private enterprise across the vastness of the Western range. For much of the 19th century the railroad, mining and timber barons ruled, fomenting tumultuous economic development at huge ecological cost. Capital conquered. When trust-busting Theodore Roosevelt came to power--100 years ago this September--the U.S. was recoiling from unlimited extraction of resources; Roosevelt added to the national parks, created the national forest service and championed the country's growing interest in outdoor activities...
Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
...flip side of Archie," is the way Lear describes Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
...sisters, nine and 10 years older than I, were lucky to be girls; nearly all their boyfriends were killed. My country fought sooner, longer and at greater cost than America, but at no time did we think we were fighting against genocide. What we contested, as did Franklin Roosevelt, was the Nazis' violent assault on Western civilization. Democracy was saved, and with it, all the freedoms that we currently take for granted. That's what made it a good war, and those who were chosen to give their lives so that we could enjoy ours, whether Jews or gentiles, were...