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corner.nationalreview.com - 12/27/2008
Teddy & The Right
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Conservatives have a weird relationship with Teddy Roosevelt. I think part of it has to do with the fantastic first installment of Edmund Morris' TR biography, which came out during the Reagan years. It was so well-received that the White House agreed to work with Morris on the Reagan biography ...
rasmussenreports.com - 12/28/2008
FDR vs. Reagan: May The Best President Win
— rasmussenreports.com — It’s a showdown between the two most influential presidents of the 20th Century. Franklin D. Roosevelt versus... Ronald W. Reagan. Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say FDR, the Democratic father of the big government New Deal who led the country ... (more) FDR vs. Reagan: May The Best President Win

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The American Mind:  Theodore Roosevelt Conservative? Uh, Uh

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Theodore Roosevelt Conservative? Uh, Uh
The American Mind — ... Jonah Goldberg thinks Teddy Roosevelt got a boost in the Reagan White House because of the first volume of Edmund Morris’ biography. Maybe. After reading the fine book I came to a different conclusion that Ronald Pestritto reaffirmed: TR was no conservative. He was certainly a larger-than-live character. Roosevelt was a prolific writer, sportsman, great politician, a legend of American history, and a bull moose personality. But the philosophy and policies he advocated were much closer to the Big Government of the Left than the conservatism of Reagan, Goldwater, Robert ...

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