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...former University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who presided over the ceremonies, wrote in his invitation to Roosevelt, “[W]e hope you will choose for your theme for a brief address something connected with Harvard... and feel that you would welcome this opportunity to divorce yourself from the arduous demands of politics and political speechmaking.” The note ended with a request for Roosevelt to keep his comments to less than 10 minutes...
...before a joint session that John F. Kennedy announced in 1961 his plan to land a man on the moon "before this decade is out." "The era of big government is over," Bill Clinton declared before a joint session in 1996. In 2002 George W. Bush used his address before Congress to denounce the "axis of evil, arming to threaten peace in the world"; his foreign policy vision will forever define his legacy. (See George W. Bush's 10 best YouTube moments...
...Anti-Bush If there is one thematic frame that has infused almost every action of the early Obama Administration, it has been this: Obama is no George W. Bush. He won't interrogate prisoners like Bush. He won't operate Guantánamo Bay like Bush. He won't accept lobbyists into his Administration like Bush. He will court the opposition party much more seriously than Bush did. He is unlikely to even keep the Bush request for a new helicopter to transport the President around the Washington D.C. region. "The helicopter I now have seems perfectly adequate...
...George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...
...idea of a strong regulatory state. But his critics say that on a case-by-case basis he routinely comes down in favor of applying cost-benefit analysis in a way that would disallow the regulation in question. And they haven't forgotten that in 2001, Sunstein backed George W. Bush's choice of John Graham to head OIRA, though 37 Senate Democrats voted against him. Under Graham and his successor Susan Dudley, OIRA applied cost-benefit analysis stringently, with what their critics say were predictable results. "We've had eight years that were absolutely Siberia for protective regulation," says...