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- Bailout plan could violate constitution, say lawyers and law
- Since first being floated mere days ago, a proposal to give the treasury secretary unprecedented power over the financial system has been called many things -- among them creeping socialism, a necessary evil and a blank check. Here's one more: Arguably unconstitutional. While the administration and...
- Research articles 2008-09-23
- The Great Depression: contrary to conventional wisdom, the historical record shows that interventionist policies during the Hoover and FDR administrations caused and prolonged the Great Depression
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On October 29, 1929, the world turned upside down. For more than a month, stock prices, which had risen to giddy new levels throughout the decade now known as "the Roaring Twenties," had been faltering. Since early September, when stock prices peaked, the market had lost about...
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- The story behind the National Security Act of 1947
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Harry Truman was at Washington D.C.'s National Airport on Saturday, 26 July 1947, waiting impatiently to fly home to Missouri to see his dying mother. First, however, he wanted to sign a long-delayed bill reorganizing the government to deal with national security matters. Congress had completed action...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Evening lecture at the U.S. Military Academy
- As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, Monday, April 21, 2008 Thank you. Thank you, General Hagenbeck. First things first. Congratulations on beating Navy in lacrosse. (Cheers, applause.) Army football will be at Texas A&M in College Station on September...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- Reappraising FDR's approach to World War II in Europe
- A survey of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategic thinking prior to American entry into World War II reveals that the traditional historical narratives present a false dichotomy. Typically, FDR is portrayed either as an isolationist and reluctant belligerent being pushed into the war, or as an ardent interventionist seeking to enter...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Five Things You Should Know About FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Beth Dempsey for Schlager Group, +1-248-349-7810, beth@bethdempsey.com DALLAS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- How would December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day - be remembered without President Franklin D. Roosevelt's powerful address to Congress on December 8, 1941? Historians see that speech as a turning point in American history,...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- The 50-year strategy: beyond '08: can progressives play for keeps?
- A CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT who is deeply unpopular with Americans. A country facing profound economic and security challenges. New technologies upending old media. A cohort of new immigrants and a bulging generation of young people ready to transform the political calculus. 2008? No, 1932, the tail end of the Hoover...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Ideas: History, Pivoting On the Unpredictable
- It was the summer of 1937, and Franklin Roosevelt was depending on his Senate majority leader, Joe Robinson, to pass perhaps the most important bill of his second term--packing the hostile Supreme Court with pro-FDR justices. Colleagues said that only Robinson had the clout and I.O.U.s to turn the tide...
- Research articles 2006-12-25
- Visiting sites associated with the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt.(Going Places)(Travel Q and A)
- Byline: Madelyn Merwin Q. I am a student of Franklin D. Roosevelt and would like to know more about his homes, with the intent of visiting them. I have already been to the home at Hyde Park, N.Y., but need information on the others. ...
- Research articles 2006-11-26
- In the air.(Suburban Living)
- Remotely interesting: Taye Diggs returns to series TV as a detective reliving a day in which he's charged with murder in "Day Break." Think "The Fugitive" meets "Groundhog Day." It debuts at 8 p.m. Wednesday on ABC's WLS Channel 7. ... NBC's "Medium" returns at 9...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Looking back at 75 years of change.
- The past 75 years have seen the most tumultuous changes in history, and Financial Executives International has evolved with those changes. From a meeting of eight corporate controllers in New York City back at the end of 1931, FEI has grown into an international organization with ...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- "The program for better jobs and income": welfare reform, liberalism, and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter
- For a failed president, Jimmy Carter has been well-treated by historians, political scientists, and journalists. Though most observers judged his presidency a failure in the years immediately following Carter's ignominious defeat in 1980, (1) revisionist studies now hail the thirty-ninth U.S. president for his far-sighted and misunderstood leadership. Led by...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- The fireside chat that Roosevelt threw away: in a time of national crisis, FDR's advisors urged him to assume dictatorial powers. He knew better
- President Bush is under criticism for asserting "inherent" presidential authority to go around the back of Congress and secretly authorize warrantless wiretaps, in violation of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. During an equally dire time in this nation's history, the winter of 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was also...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- La Guardia and the Holocaust.(Shoah)(Fiorello H. La Guardia)(Edward I. Koch)(Rafael Medoff)(Excerpt)(Speech)
- (New research on Fiorello H. La Guardia's response to the Holocaust was presented and discussed at the third national conference of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, held at the Fordham University School of Law, in New York City, on September 18, 2005. The...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- The contemporary presidency: the sixth year curse.
- There is a prevailing pattern of ill-fated events that routinely unfold during a president's sixth consecutive year in the White House. Republican strategist Kevin Phillips called the tendency of the president's party to lose seats in a midterm election the "sixth year itch." The term is actually an understatement. Due...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Herspring, Dale R. The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush.(Book Review)
- Herspring, Dale R. The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 490 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-1355-2 Publication Date: February 2005 In The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Comments on the Flight Recorder Proposal
- Extracts of the comments submitted To the FAA docket On ejectable flight data recorders From Reps. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) and David Price (D-N.C.), members of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee: "The events of Sept. 11, 2001, proved that our current CVR/DFDRs [cockpit voice recorders/digital flight...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- The neutral/honest broker role in foreign-policy decision making: a reassessment.
- This article examines the impact of the "neutral" or "honest" broker role in presidential decision making, particularly as applied to the job of National Security Council adviser. It provides further evidence of the positive and continuing contribution of the role to effective decision making, which has been expressed both in...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Neustadt, new institutionalism, and presidential decision making: a theory and test.
- The institutionalization of a White House-centered presidential staff system is often described as a logical response by presidents to increasing leadership demands linked to the post-World War II growth in government size and complexity. In contrast, I take a supply-side perspective, using transaction-cost theory and insights from Richard Neustadt's Presidential...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
- Social Security is solvent for decades If you believe Charles Krauthammer's contention in his May 9 column that "there is no Social Security trust fund," you had better close your bank accounts, cash in all your investments and stuff the cash into a mattress....
- Research articles 2005-05-17
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