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...longer think Bush's technique is just a boomer thing. I think it's a Roosevelt thing - and I don't mean the Democrats' Roosevelt, the one who used a cigarette holder and wore a cape, I mean the Republicans' Roosevelt, the one who wore buckskin and shot bears...
...military men who personally committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the shrine's museum, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots and the Burma death railway are displayed in an unequivocally celebratory and exculpatory style. Visitors there are told, for example, that U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt purposely drew Japan into war, and an exhibit on the "Nanking Incident" does not mention the tens of thousands (and perhaps hundreds of thousands) of Chinese citizens the Japanese military slaughtered in that city in 1937 and 1938 except to say that "the Chinese were soundly defeated suffering heavy casualties...
History must not be treated as something set off by itself," said Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, and that could well be the motto of our Making of America series. I'm Rick Stengel, and I'm delighted that my first issue as managing editor of TIME is our fifth annual Making of America issue. One of the great missions of TIME since we started 83 years ago has been explaining the challenges of the moment in the context of history--and relating the values of our history to the challenges of the moment. That's why we started the series...
TIME helps our readers understand what matters, and our terrific package on Teddy Roosevelt shows how T.R. helped create the modern presidency and even the paradigm of today's politics. I also want to pay tribute to those who created our Roosevelt issue. It was overseen by Priscilla Painton and Richard Lacayo, who was a superb player-coach and wrote two pieces for the issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday...
...Roosevelt's fellow citizens loved him, in large measure because they knew how deeply he loved his country. At the start of "a new century big with the fate of many nations," he said America was the "young giant of the West." He strived with all his considerable power to conserve, strengthen, direct and ennoble it. He did all that and more, which is why Theodore Roosevelt holds a special place in the American imagination...