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How Obama Measures Up: Lessons From 70 Years of Presidential Scholars
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyHarry Carpenter, one of the world's greatest boxing announcers, died two weeks ago in London. Despite nearly a half century of broadcasting championship bouts, Carpenter is remembered for his muffed call in the eighth round of the 1974 heavyweight battle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the "Rumble in the Jungle." As Carpenter told the story from ringside in Kinshasa, Zaire, "Suddenly, Ali looks very tired indeed. ... He can barely lift his arms up. ... Oh, he's got him with a right hand! He's got him! Oh, you can't believe it. I don't think Foreman is going to get back up." What ...
Truman Library Joins With Hiroshima Survivors in Forum on Nuclear Weapons
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyHarry Truman is not known to have ever second-guessed his decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Monday night, the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo., and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan have arranged a symbolic meeting between him and the victims of those bombs, in an event billed as "Mr. Truman Meets Hiroshima on the Future of Nuclear Weapons," a live video-conference between American scholars and hibakusha -- survivors of the bombings. According to the organizer of the webcast, Professor Roy Tamashiro of Webster University in Webster ...
How Obama's Health Reform Push Compares to his Predecessors'
By Markham Heid - Politics DailyAs President Obama leans into the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he inches forward in the footsteps of several predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care legislation. To be sure, Obama has had help along the way. And as the current congressional debate underscores, not all universal health care plans are created equal. But it seems likely that 44 will be the first president to achieve a congressional vote on universal health care legislation. A look at how and when his Oval Office brethren fell short: ...
Truman Gets Credit (or Blame) for Current National Health Care Push
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAs we move from one political debate to another, it's often the case that talking points are established and many Americans remember only those that have been repeated most often by pundits. These high points essentially become political shorthand, providing a simplistic version of the world. It's happening again with health care reform. On any given night you might hear a Democratic "talking head" say something like, "Republicans accuse President Obama of rushing this through, but Americans have been waiting 60 years. We've been pushing to cover all Americans since Harry Truman." First, one ...
What Would Harry Truman Do?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyKEY WEST--On the morning of April 9, 1952, those who lived near the nation's large steel mills noticed American flags waving in the spring morning--a powerful totem proclaiming with unmistakable symbolism who was now in charge of the steel industry: The new boss was Uncle Sam. ...
My Bipartisan Presidents Day Salute
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyIt's Presidents Day, and rather than writing the perfunctory post about my hero Ronald Reagan, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I thought I would recommend a couple of excellent books about 20th century Democratic presidents. Jon Meachum's "Franklin and Winston" is a superb look at the personal relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill. Conservatives who rightly abhor Roosevelt's New Deal economic policies may find more to admire in Roosevelt's war leadership. They may even see a side of Roosevelt that they might not normally be exposed to -- no doubt, the side of Roosevelt that made him ...
How Will Palin Get Rid of McCain?
By Mo Rocca - Politics DailySarah Palin's constant invoking of Harry Truman is shrewd on a number of levels: Truman equals small town America in the popular imagination. Truman does not equal professional politician in the popular imagination. (This is largely nonsense. Yes, we all know he was a failed haberdasher. But he a was a high-profile U.S. senator for 12 years before FDR tapped him to be his fourth term veep.) Truman was a reformer. As chairman of the Truman Committee he uncovered fraud and corruption at the root of massive military wastefulness. Taking on the military was no mean feat during the ...
The President Hits an All-Time Low
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailyBy now, you've heard the news: President George W. Bush is the least favorite of all modern presidents including Truman, Nixon and the evil Chester Arthur. Plus, he can't shoot a three-pointer.The CNN/Opinion Research survey shows that 71 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush. "This is the first time," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director, "that any president's disapproval rating has cracked the 70 percent mark."But, I know what you're thinking: How can I celebrate this milestone? For a limited time only--262 Days, 8 Hours and 33 Minutes, according to the Bush Countdown Clock--you ...
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