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Hillary’s experience demonstrates that she can best approach the challenges President Bush has left us. She redefined what it means to be First Lady of the United States. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt has a First Lady been so close a confidant to her husband on matters of policy. She fought for much-needed universal health, represented the United States internationally, and became a driving force in U.S. foreign policy...
...employed Obama as a research assistant when the senator was still a student, said that Obama had the potential to become one of the best presidents in United States history. “We are dealing with someone who has a chance of being the greatest president since Franklin Roosevelt,” Tribe said. He briefly paused, and then he added, “Well, maybe I could drop the Franklin Roosevelt part.” —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Schlesinger’s scholarship was never distant from his politics, and for many of today’s historians his glowing portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Kennedy family suffered from partisan fervor...
Schlesinger’s scholarship was never distant from his politics, and for many of today’s historians his glowing portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Kennedy family suffered from partisan fervor...
Perret argues that America has been in decline since April 12, 1945, the day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, died. Until then, the power to make war lay in Congressional hands, and “except for the Spanish-American War, Americans had never launched a major war without first being attacked.” After FDR’s death, a succession of small-minded men in the Oval Office made presidential power virtually limitless, he argues. Truman, LBJ, and Bush the Younger are particularly at fault for leading the nation into unnecessary and unwinnable wars...