Word: roosevelts
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...Obama isn’t the first to decorate his Cabinet with narrow-minded academics. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed several professors to his administration, including the University of Chicago’s Paul Douglas and Columbia’s Rexford Tugwell. Like Obama’s aides, these scholars shared a common nightmare: a depression like the one that devastated Midwestern farmers in the 1920s...
...reputation. At the first meeting, the members (all 13 of them) walked under ladders to enter a room covered with spilled salt. The club lasted for many years and grew to more than 400 members, including five U.S. Presidents: Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the club's efforts, triskaidekaphobia (that's fear of the number 13) flourished; even today, most tall buildings don't have a 13th Floor...
...Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell of a way to miss an inauguration. It turned out we had not trespassed. We emerged from under the Theodore Roosevelt bridge, tromped across Constitution Gardens, and reached the array of virgin portable toilets and as-yet-unmanned police barricades that marked the beginning of the viewing area behind the Washington monument. We were still over a mile from the Capitol steps on which the president-elect would take his oath...
...look at the world. Perspective 1--which is part biography, part psychiatry--is more fun. The problem is that very often a President's past--and even his campaign rhetoric--is not prologue. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson pledged to keep the nation out of war; in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt promised to do the same. Richard Nixon spent his career as a die-hard anticommunist, but in the White House, he opened relations with China and ushered in détente with the U.S.S.R. George W. Bush once said America shouldn't tell the world what...
...hard to let go sometimes, and some men have attempted to regain the nation's top spot. Martin Van Buren, whose term ended in 1841, ran again twice for the presidency, once in 1844 and again on the Free Soil ticket in 1948. (He lost.) Teddy Roosevelt, in between African safaris and expeditions to uncharted Amazonian rivers, ran for a third term on the Bull Moose ticket. He was shot right before a campaign stop, yet was hearty enough to deliver his speech with the bullet lodged in his chest. (Still, TR lost.) Millard Fillmore ran a disinterested campaign...