{"id":178,"date":"2006-04-27T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2006-07-18T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T20:37:23","slug":"bush-vs-roosevelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Bush vs Roosevelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/12441954\/site\/newsweek\/\"><strong>Newsweek had a great comparison between these two blueblood presidents.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was a little put off to see that\u00c2\u00a0Newsweek&#8217;s columnist Jonathon Alter was able to use their space to promote his new book about FDR but the two pages were a good read. Alter&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0book maintains what I was told back in highschool forty years ago: that Roosevelt saved both democracy and capitalism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The article compares how the flexible Roosevelt confronted his crisis and the inflexible Bush confronted his. I\u00c2\u00a0appreciated Alter&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0insights on how Bush&#8217;s kicking alcohol and FDR&#8217;s recovering\u00c2\u00a0from polio made them very different men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ll have to put his book on the growing list of Presidential bio&#8217;s circling my runway.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek had a great comparison between these two blueblood presidents. I was a little put off to see that\u00c2\u00a0Newsweek&#8217;s columnist Jonathon Alter was able&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}