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...February Eleanor Roosevelt visits Harvard and urges ratification of the U.N. hunger rights covenant...
...speech that was long on Mom and Dad's farm back in Tennessee and short on mention of one George W. Bush. The sticks and stones he left to surrogates, like League of Conservation Voters president Deb Callahan, who bashed Bush as being "more James Watt than Teddy Roosevelt" while Gore stood on the stage in silence (he did look a little uncomfortable). Other surrogates were unapologetic. "If the League... wants to contrast the mess in Texas with Al Gore's pro-family, pro-environment record, that's their decision," shrugged Gore spokesman Chris Lehane...
...fighting Germans in 1916--shortly after writing his poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The verse begins, "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends, "And I to my pledged word am true./I shall not fail that rendezvous." Seeger's poem inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous line "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny" and was later adopted by President John F. Kennedy when insisting that the U.S. would soon put a man on the moon...
...some people succeed, and some not? The answer may seem obvious. Jim Hightower, the liberal humorist from Texas, said the elder George Bush "was born on third base, and thought he'd hit a triple." A funny crack, but captious. Teddy Roosevelt and his brother Elliott were born to the same privilege. Sickly Teddy overcame and gloriously prospered. Elliott, the golden boy (and father of Eleanor), died an alcoholic disgrace...
...Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. The practice was popular with many of the whiskered forgettables nominated for the office between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt...