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...President-elect rode the rails to his Inauguration, his normally buoyant spirits muted by a passing landscape of shuttered factories and municipalities in default. A quarter of the nation's workforce was unemployed; what remained of its credit system was on life support. By the time Franklin Roosevelt reached Washington on the evening of March 2, local hotels were refusing to accept out-of-state checks. Eleanor Roosevelt wondered how her family would pay its tab at the Mayflower...
...succeeded in reversing the economic death spiral, a friend told F.D.R., he would be remembered as America's greatest President. "And if I fail," replied Roosevelt, "I will be remembered as the last one." (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...history. They were once mutual admirers in Woodrow Wilson's war cabinet, and in 1920 Roosevelt backed Hoover for the presidency--as a Democrat. Hoover's status as the Great Humanitarian, a title bestowed for his heroic Belgian food relief during World War I, had long since been tarnished by his refusal as President to countenance direct government assistance to victims of his own country's Depression. After the Inauguration, Hoover and Roosevelt would never meet again. Their shared ride down Pennsylvania Avenue traversed an endless mile in awkward silence. At the Capitol, 100,000 onlookers had assembled under pewter...
...Roosevelt did more than raise their spirits in his 15-minute Inaugural Address. He told them a story--a morality play, actually--wherein a "generation of self-seekers" on the "mad chase of evanescent profits" had disproved the existence of a benignly self-correcting business cycle. "The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization," said F.D.R., whose genius for selecting his enemies would make him as popular as he was polarizing...
...Klein's Teddy awards honoring courage in the political arena: A John McCain regime would have probably finished the job that the Republicans began so well of dismantling the National Parks system [Dec. 29]. This - and the concept that we should protect our national resources - is Teddy Roosevelt's greatest heritage. You really think he'd like McCain? Richard Bagwell, Berkeley, Calif...