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...behavior inevitable? Do you think we ought to admit Red China to the United Nations? Did Oswald act alone? Why do you think Nixon didn't burn the tapes? Was Ronald Reagan a moron or a visionary? Do earth tones really signify the Alpha male? Why, exactly? Did Roosevelt know in advance about Pearl Harbor? You think those Sacco and Vanzetti guys got what they deserved? Did John F. Kennedy in the White House take his orders directly from the Pope of Rome? Would you say that Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative unwisely ignores foresters' concerns about fuel load...
...legislative power; the court has recently struck down a parental-consent abortion law as well as a law limiting death-row appeals. This prompted some Republicans to try expanding the number of judges on that court so they could pack it with their own. (They failed, just as Franklin Roosevelt did when he tried a similar maneuver with the U.S. Supreme Court.) A special legislative session picking Bush electors, using the original deadline as guidance, is a way of saying, in the words of Republican state senator Charlie Bronson, "Kiss my grits...
...great president, that much is certain, nor even, perhaps, a good one. He lacked the sweeping vision of a Reagan or a Roosevelt, let alone the decency and humility of a Truman; his only vision involved his own power, and the other virtues were banished from his White House early on. But he was an interesting President, perfectly suited for a time when politics resembles a spectator sport, broadcast into millions of homes through the good offices of CNN. He inspired more novels and biographies, more praise and more hatred, than any leader since Nixon--perhaps since FDR, even...
Trustee James Roosevelt Õ68 says the library makes a "civic statement" on how Cantabrigians value learning and knowledge...
...there, Adams wrote his wife Abigail, who was back in Quincy, Mass.: "I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." Nearly 150 years later, Franklin Roosevelt had those words carved into the mantel in the State Dining Room; Jacqueline Kennedy had it redone during her redecoration...