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Nane Annan--a slim, strikingly beautiful Swede--had been in love with Annan for a few months when the following happened: "We were walking along on Roosevelt Island [in New York City] one night, and Kofi saw a figure hunched over in a telephone booth. It was off to the side, maybe the kind of thing other people wouldn't notice. There was a young man sobbing in the booth. So Kofi went and talked to him and listened to his problem, something about his father. And for some time after that, we had this young man coming to visit...
...White House. The immense burden is supposed to exhaust the man - look at Lyndon when they carried him out. Maybe we half-think a president hasn't done his job if he is not at least staggering a little at the end of the shift. Poor Franklin Roosevelt burned out and died in April 1945, after so much labor...
...those are the facts today. That too was the consensus among last night's panels of TV pundits, with the usual exception of presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose designated role is to point out how badly the country's gone into the crapper since there was a Roosevelt in the White House. "I've always thought the Democratic party overestimated the problems that liberals would have reaching out to independents," she commented. Tell it to President Dukakis, Dottie...
...most cliche-ridden Presidents were also our greater ones. "Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years but by the lifetime of the human spirit," said Franklin Roosevelt. "Democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "is more than a form of government. It is a form of character." Lincoln: "I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating mankind." Lincoln was a supremely corny speaker--at least he would be so judged today. He began a noted speech at a battlefield with references to liberty...
...Clinton described Galbraith's experience in Washington politics on the National Defense Advisory Committee and in the Office of Price Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class...