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...Passengers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport are greeted by another billboard. Adverts opposing the rules are popping up in podcasts and television shows....
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
...We care only when a famous auction house gets involved to sell on Sylvia Plath’s recipe cards or Joan Didion’s hurricane lamps or Charlie Watts’ rare book collection....
...He previously worked in the White House under Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush before joining Goldman in 1994....
...Additional reporting by Lauren Fedor in Washington and Joshua Franklin in New York...
...Biden has been likened to Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt in his unapologetic statism. But those presidents (like Ronald Reagan going in the opposite direction) won crushing mandates....
...Franklin Roosevelt did it with the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson did it with the Civil Rights Act....
...Ronald Reagan believed the nine most frightening words in the English language were: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”....
...Even in the first 12 months of Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidency, the direction of policy was undecided, an indecision that contributed to the failure of the World Economic Conference in London in 1933....
...Round on the Links The link was inventors Franklin (Roosevelt and Pierce) Whitney Houston (“I Will Always Love You”) Penn and Teller The Da Vinci Code Tom Watt Taco Bell Steve Wright in the Afternoon...
...The Rolling Stones celebrate their 60th anniversary in 2022, still touring despite Charlie Watts’ death in August....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound.”...
...Ronald Cohen: The people who haven’t shifted are businesses....
...There is no Ronald Reagan on the sidelines. After Biden comes the deluge of a resurgent Donald Trump, or a kindred figure. Biden’s goal must be to avoid a Cartesian fate....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the most famous “Builder Back Better”, but Herbert Hoover had his public works projects....
...David Cobham, professor of economics at Heriot-Watt University: Most people will feel that they have not recouped the losses they have suffered in recent years (indeed, since 2010)....
...Sam Watts renders Baden Powell’s “Deixa” as impressionism with a light touch, Ashley Henry pirouettes through Aretha Franklin’s waltz “Call Me” and Roella Oloro’s spellbinding performance captures the hope...
...Joe Biden’s biggest supporters insist he is the most progressive US president since his reforming predecessor Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt: a blue blood who inherited rather than chose his Democratic affiliation. (Franklin “De-La-No” as Huey Long, a zealot who tired of his caution, knew him.)...
...Picking the right time to go can be a challenge, he told the FT’s Joshua Franklin and Imani Moise....
...I agree that Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson aren’t necessarily the right analogies, but I think Ronald Reagan might be — not in policy terms, but in the sense of being the president who shifts a national...
...This idea has been wildly unfashionable in the US since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, but particularly so in the Trump era, when agitators such as Steve Bannon tried to smash what he called the “administrative...
...Frank Sinatra hosted a celebration for Democrat John F Kennedy in 1961 and crossed the American political divide two decades later to serenade Republican Ronald Reagan....
...At one point it housed one of the earliest steam engines; a little later, Ronalds tells me, it housed a 1785 Boulton & Watt beam engine....
...Taken together, this burst of government activism carries echoes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Depression, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society reforms of the 1960s....
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