Word: roosevelts
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...have to be smart to be a good liar, and Democrats like to lie in a visionary sort of way. The founding visionary of the modern Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, was one of its most artful and charming shavers of the truth. There were giants on the earth in those days. Lyndon Johnson's mendacities achieved an infuriating magnificence, like King Lear playing three-card monte on the heath...
...told students that this quality was also evident in the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, the architect of the New Deal and a former Crimson president...
...What distinguished Roosevelt was not his mind. In fact, for the first part of his life he was seen as quite a dandy," Gergen said...
...Roosevelt's battle with polio in his 30s that gave him insight and empathy, he continued...
...second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in The Golden Age. As the novel opens in 1940, F.D.R. is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in Empire and Hollywood, is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used...