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NEWS ABOUT: FDR

FDR stories: 13 news summaries
OPINION

 Obama's Health 
 Reform Waffling 
 May Be Savvy 

Prez perhaps following his predecessors in 'strategic uncertainty'

Aug 19, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may not be timidity that’s keeping Barack Obama from pushing harder for a public health care option. He may instead be employing a time-tested presidential technique: “strategic uncertainty,” writes Jill Lawrence in Politics Daily. Key for Obama is getting strong Senate support for a bill, and... More »

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politics • FDR • Abraham Lincoln • health care reform • President Obama • public option

OPINION

 Obama, Be Like 
 FDR and Talk to Us  


Aug 14, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama should man up and talk straight to the American people about health care reform—just like FDR did when trying to pass Social Security, Nancy J. Altman writes in the Los Angeles Times. Roosevelt succeeded with that program against similar odds—opponents cried “socialism” and said... More »

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FDR • Franklin D. Roosevelt • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • fireside chat

OPINION

Krugman, Noonan Agree: Just Build on Medicare

We already have a fine government option

Jul 31, 09 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone's suddenly allergic to letting the government into health care, but Paul Krugman has news: The government is already knee-deep in health care, he writes in the New York Times. It's called Medicare, and without it almost no one over 65 would be covered. You can also thank tax... More »

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Medicare • FDR • health care reform • Paul Krugman • Peggy Noonan

OPINION

Conservatives Must 'Obstruct and Delay' Obama: Kristol

GOP can check rush toward big government

Feb 26, 09 11:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The “day of reckoning” has come for Republicans, writes William Kristol in the Washington Post. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered “the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech” since Lyndon Johnson, and seems poised to undo the whole Reagan agenda. “Conservatives can’t win politically right now,”... More »

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Barack Obama • Lyndon Johnson • conservative • US government • FDR • President Obama • conservative movement • William Kristol • Republicans

ANALYSIS

 Obama Finds 
 His Inner 
 Roosevelt 

President stakes his legacy on ending economic crisis

Feb 25, 09 7:23 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's address to Congress last night “staked his presidency on bringing the nation out of its economic crisis,” writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post. Not since FDR have citizens been so desperate for economic leadership, and yesterday's speech made clear that Obama plans to reshape American... More »

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Barack Obama • recession • US economy • FDR • speech • Obama administration

OPINION

 Arts Need a New Deal, Too 

Cultural anthropologist suggests President Obama appoint arts cabinet

Jan 21, 09 7:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Fifty years after FDR’s Public Works Art Project paid and promoted American talent, President Obama has people dreaming of a new deal for arts, cultural anthropologist Patricia Williams Lessane writes in Ebony. While division spawned the Harlem Renaissance, Lessane is hopeful an arts resurgence would be “born out... More »

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art • FDR • New Deal • Obama administration • President Obama • public works • Harlem Renaissance

analysis

FDR 'Prolonged' the Depression? Come On


Jan 2, 09 11:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News left one pundit scrambling for his history books last week after he dared to defend the New Deal. Supporting Congressional talk of a stimulus plan, David Sirota sat "mouth agape, deer in the headlights" as a commentator accused FDR's plan of prolonging the Great Depression. Sirota disagreed,... More »

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FDR • New Deal • Franklin D. Roosevelt • economic stimulus package

OPINION

 Can Obama Be the New FDR? 

Nation needs Roosevelt's action, inspiration

Nov 8, 08 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s call yesterday to “act swiftly” to address the economic crisis clearly echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s inaugural address during the Depression: “action, and action now.” But while Obama's “crisp competence” was welcome, he wasn't particularly inspirational, and, Joe Nocera writes in the New York ... More »

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Barack Obama • FDR • Franklin D. Roosevelt • inspiration • economy • financial crisis • President Obama

ANALYSIS

Governing Will Make Campaign Look Easy

Prioritizing amid economic downturn will present enormous challenge

Nov 5, 08 9:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The challenges ahead for Barack Obama are perhaps the largest facing any new president since FDR, Dan Balz writes in the Washington Post. He'll have sizable congressional majorities, but with a redrawn electoral map—including a number of formerly GOP states in his column—he'll have to wrestle immediately with... More »

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Barack Obama • FDR • transition • Election 2008 • President Obama

OPINION

Mortgage Crisis? Blame George Bailey

It's A Wonderful Life hero helped poor buy unaffordable homes

Oct 12, 08 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The housing bubble that triggered the current economic crisis began with a post-Depression attitude toward owning a home presented in the classic Christmas flick It’s a Wonderful Life, writes Ross Douthat in the Washington Post. Hero banker George Bailey’s chief goal was to loan the poor enough money... More »

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FDR • homeownership • public housing • housing bubble • suburban sprawl • suburbs • Great Depression • McMansion • financial crisis

ANALYSIS

Smoking Makes Obama Human ... If a Bad Role Model

Some worried a victory by Dem could set anti-tobacco movement back years

Jul 29, 08 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Barack Obama—an on-again, off-again smoker who says he's off again—fails in his attempt to quit, he could be the first president to enjoy a regular puff since FDR, who lit up long before the anti-smoking movement swept America. One watcher tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune the habit... More »

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Barack Obama • FDR • anti-smoking • Nicorette

OPINION

Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates

Senators cross party lines with foreign policy criticism

May 21, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel are fighting a duel of aisle-crossing foreign policy critiques, as the former Dem candidate takes aim at Obama and the GOP heavyweight scolds McCain. “How did the Democratic Party get here?” Joe asks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, accusing Barack of kow-towing to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • foreign policy • FDR • appeasement

Why the 'Rove Presidency' Failed

‘Architect’ tried to force dynasty, cowed Congress instead of winning it

Aug 13, 07 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Karl Rove about to ankle the White House, the Atlantic's cover story on Rove as the principal architect of the Bush presidency becomes prescient. Joshua Green explores why the mastermind of W.'s two election victories—one of the best political minds of a generation—was unable to fulfill... More »

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Bush administration • Karl Rove • White House • FDR • Abraham Lincoln • George W. Bush

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