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...about - and what it is NOT about. It is not about big things, big destinies, big passions. It is not about war, for example. The entire administration of Abraham Lincoln, one of the two or three greatest American presidents, revolved around war. The meaning of another great president, Franklin Roosevelt, centered first upon great depression, and then upon world war. The war in Vietnam destroyed the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon (his Watergate schemes having been cooked up to counter the antiwar movement.) The Cold War dominated American politics from Truman to Reagan...
...country is in a strange mood, filled with unease, and an odd passivity. At one time, a terrorist attack on an American destroyer, killing American sailors, would have brought an explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What...
...were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half in under a decade. Coolidge simply repealed the war time tax rates and let the good times roll. And who guided America through the tripling of incomes of the post civil war, pre-Teddy Roosevelt era? Who indeed...
...Margot Roosevelt...
Consider the great Democratic lies. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected on a promise not to involve America further in an Asian war that it was, he said, the job of Asian boys to fight. (You remember that Goldwater in that contest was the wild man warmonger...