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1 Jun 2019, 3:00 am
Brandeis became associated with President Woodrow Wilson during the 1912 presidential campaign, a bitter three-way battle between Wilson, former President Theodore Roosevelt, and the incumbent President William Howard Taft. [read post]
31 May 2019, 9:40 am
” Characterized in comparative terms, “Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes: Andrew Jackson’s rage; Millard Fillmore’s bigotry; James Buchanan’s incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt’s self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon’s paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton’s lack of self-control and reflexive dishonesty. [read post]
30 May 2019, 2:20 pm
And the four great men — Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln — look as determined and visionary as we would want great men to ... [read post]
30 May 2019, 10:40 am
But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad” — Theodore RooseveltStatesman, president, naturalist, conservationist, soldier, lawyer, even taxidermist — Teddy Roosevelt was very much an American Renaissance man. [read post]
20 May 2019, 6:30 am
In 1900, then-governor Theodore Roosevelt appointed him the only African American member of a commission overseeing an exposition held in Buffalo. [read post]
17 May 2019, 9:30 pm
The History Channel’s notice of Dan Abrams and David Fisher’s Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy. [read post]
14 May 2019, 7:29 am
The following is a series of questions prompted by the forthcoming publication of Michael Bobelian’s “Battle for the Marble Palace: Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Forging of the Modern Supreme Court” (Schaffner Press, 2019). [read post]
5 May 2019, 7:21 am
She does breeze through the historical example of Theodore Roosevelt, though she only looks at him second hand, letting us know how Dale Carnegie saw him — "naturally friendly. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 4:33 pm
” Theodore Roosevelt “‘…The United Nations (UN) has made clear that society must radically decarbonize to spare the future from the worst consequences of climate change. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 4:33 pm
” Theodore Roosevelt “‘…Society must radically decarbonize to spare the future from the worst consequences of climate change. [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 8:00 am
Rockefeller, lawyer-statesmen Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.Among the colorful, high-powered lawyers vividly portrayed, White Shoe focuses on three: Paul Cravath, who guided his client George Westinghouse in his war against Thomas Edison and launched a new model of law firm management—the “Cravath system”; Frank Stetson, the “attorney general” for financier J. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:51 pm
The petitioners, a group of nearby residents, argued that the Gilder Center’s ¼-acre expansion into Theodore Roosevelt Park was subject to ULURP, and that the Parks Department failed to take the required “hard look” at the Project’s potential impacts with respect to hazardous materials and construction noise pursuant to SEQRA/CEQR. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:51 pm
The petitioners, a group of nearby residents, argued that the Gilder Center’s ¼-acre expansion into Theodore Roosevelt Park was subject to ULURP, and that the Parks Department failed to take the required “hard look” at the Project’s potential impacts with respect to hazardous materials and construction noise pursuant to SEQRA/CEQR. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 6:30 am
He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity.Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court’s reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.As a… [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 7:53 am
(The Democrats had added a presidential term limit amendment to its 1912 platform to oppose another Roosevelt—Theodore—when the former President sought a third, non-consecutive term.) [read post]
31 Mar 2019, 5:51 am
He was the embodiment of Theodore Roosevelt's quote that "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 8:56 am
He did say something vaguely like that about Theodore Roosevelt, which may have been where the story got started. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 9:28 am
For more on Roosevelt—as well as his wife Eleanor and his (distant) cousin Theodore—I cannot recommend highly enough Ken Burns’s superb PBS documentary, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 10:22 am
” This prestigious “Teddy Award” was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, as he introduced the first significant piece of workers’ compensation legislation. [read post]
18 Jan 2019, 6:00 am
“[M]y first purpose is to do exact justice in these matters,” President Theodore Roosevelt said when he appointed a special prosecutor in 1903. [read post]
