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...days after his Inauguration as President, Franklin Roosevelt left the White House to pay his respects to 92-year-old former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The amiable Roosevelt and the dour Holmes chatted, and after F.D.R. left, Holmes supposedly remarked that the new President had a "second-class intellect but a first-class temperament." Many historians now believe that Holmes was talking about Teddy Roosevelt rather than Franklin, but the story is oft told because it suggests a larger truth: that the most important attribute of a President is not intellect but something both more familiar...
...anecdote has fostered a mix-and-match parlor game. Nixon: first-rate mind, second-class temperament. Reagan: second-rate mind, first-class temperament. Perhaps only Lincoln tops the class in both categories. But as we go down the homestretch in this presidential election, voters seem to be making up their minds as much by evaluating the dispositions of the candidates as their position papers. Voting for President is the most intimate vote we ever make; we're deciding whom we want in our living room for the next four years...
...through the legal system, which could be a model for other issues such as property rights. Kelly argues that the Party could also cautiously allow the expansion of other rights that relate directly to people's daily lives, for example by changing the hukou household-registration system that makes second-class citizens out of economic migrants who can't obtain official residency rights in areas they move to for work. These so-called "citizenship rights" are not politically sensitive like democracy or human rights, Kelly says, "nor are they inherent like human rights. It's a negotiable area...
...astonished. They didn't even know the candidates. Why would they want to watch that? I visited the website of the People's Daily. People sometimes leave comments on current events. One said, Why can an ordinary Taiwanese cast his vote? Why can't we? Are we second-class citizens? When you look at such questions, you know what kind of impact Taiwan can have on the mainland...
...next few days I had a chance to visit the website of the People's Daily and people sometimes leave comments on current events, I saw one saying: "Why can an ordinary Taiwanese just go to an elementary school and cast his vote. Why can't we? Are we second-class citizens?" When you look at those questions, you know what kind of impact Taiwan would have on the mainland. For those who come to Taiwan, they know that Taiwan is not like Hong Kong. Both places are free, but here, this is a full democracy...