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...Goods are stored in hulking silos, some dating from the Roosevelt era. “This is a port of entry, so a ship can go from here right out to the world,” Daly said....
...supporting a variety of academics such as UCL’s Mariana Mazzucato, to Harvard’s Dani Rodrik and Gordon Hanson, MIT professor Simon Johnson, and Johns Hopkins’ Henry Farrell, as well as big think-tanks like the Roosevelt...
...People forget the golf-playing innocuousness of Dwight Eisenhower, the caution and barely middlebrow inner life of Franklin Roosevelt....
...Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to smooth US-Soviet relations by stirring a Martini for Stalin. George Washington curried favour with voters on polling day by handing out free punch and rum....
...Biden was never going to be the next Franklin Roosevelt. Having failed to reinvent the New Deal, many liberals are now anticipating fascism....
...Far from dangling the hope of a new generation, his vice-president, Kamala Harris, has been “fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious,” they write....
...But the power of incumbency, and the relatively uninspiring approval ratings for his vice-president Kamala Harris, appear to have led to a change of heart, for now....
...He immediately started another portrait, this time of Kamala Harris being sworn in as vice-president at the same ceremony. Ross-Sutton hopes that this too can go to a relevant institution....
...Vice-president Kamala Harris, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cabinet rookie Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Congressional “squad”: all incur reflex suspicions....
...Would Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson see echoes of themselves in his reform agenda? That is open to debate....
...Some accidental presidents have been more tactful than Roosevelt, but they all have faced choices that influenced the course of American history....
...He even allowed Jack Ma out of the country.” — Harris Miller, McLean, Virginia “This mounting tension between the US and China can only end in one of three ways....
...So far, then, the legislative basis for the Biden-as-Franklin-Roosevelt trope is a pandemic relief bill of mostly transient measures....
...“The American people are now able to breathe easier and sleep better,” Kamala Harris, US vice-president, said at a technical college in North Carolina last week....
...There is a 50-50 split between Republicans and Democrats, with Biden’s party only holding the edge because US vice-president Kamala Harris casts any tiebreaking votes....
...It is often forgotten that Franklin D Roosevelt — America’s most radical 20th century president — was seen as a mediocrity by many of his peers. Joe Biden never came top of his class either....
...Mr Biden was introduced by Ms Harris, who paid tribute to her own late mother, an Indian immigrant to the US....
...Not since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected amid the Great Depression in 1932 has an incoming US administration faced such a deep set of challenges....
...During the second world war, Roosevelt gave his 1944 convention speech from a naval base....
...This week Mr Biden took a bold step by choosing California senator Kamala Harris as his running mate....
...He made the historically significant decision to tap Kamala Harris to be the first female, black and Asian American vice-president....
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