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...economy are you talking about?" Barack Obama exclaimed hours after the words escaped his opponent's mouth. The mocking TV ads soon followed, and as the weeks wore on and financial jitters gave way to near collapse and certain recession, McCain's statement began to evoke unsettling memories of Herbert Hoover, who said similar things in the early 1930s...
...Bill Clinton. So do steadfastness, persistence, conviction. But as soon as you make the list, it mocks you, for history is a dance of luck and intent, and sometimes they trip each other. Wilson was strong enough to win a war but too stubborn to save the peace. Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that politics was more art than engineering. He later recalled that after growing up in Iowa as a Quaker orphan...
...easier to identify whom the film would like to be about. That's George Herbert Walker Bush, the forgotten-but-not-gone 41 to his son's 43. As played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done...
...yesterday, punctuating the final moments of his speech by shouting “I don’t have to prove that originalism is perfect!” to a packed, applause-filled room. Scalia, who graduated magna cum laude from the Law School in 1960, delivered the inaugural Herbert W. Vaughn Lecture, a biannual address that will focus on the “founding principles and core doctrines” of the U.S. Constitution. In his speech, entitlted “Methodology of Originalism,” Scalia argued that justices should strive to base their decisions...
...more in common with today?s Democrats. If McCain feels compelled to call on the ghosts of former presidents to bolster his conservative credentials, he can keep Reagan on the list but if he values historical accuracy, he ought to replace Lincoln and TR with Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. Steven R. Butler, Richardson, Texas...