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Another lever was accountability. As the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton was confronted early on with an impossible equation whereby his constituents wanted more public spending, but they hated any politician that raised taxes to finance that spending. Clinton experienced the bitter results: after becoming governor in 1978, he lost his reelectio

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The Democratic campaign’s distinction between politics and policy was pure Roosevelt. He worked seamlessly with Howe, Farley, and Flynn on strategy and dealt directly with Moley’s team on substance.

But this wasn’t that. It wasn’t J.B.F. asking herself did he interrupt me because I’m a woman? They were past all of that now. This was her asking herself did he interrupt me because the president of the United States doesn’t matter anymore?

advance, he thundered against Marshall’s detractors but never mentioned Jenner or McCarthy by name. Ike was experienced leading coalitions. Jenner and McCarthy were Republicans and by definition members of his coalition. Both were up for reelection, and Indiana and Wisconsin were critical states.

In the drama that Moses suddenly revealed to the public there was also a villain (the President) using the power of money (federal relief funds) to force the Mayor to perform a dishonorable act (ousting from his job a faithful public servant). And this drama had a hero, too—for now that La Guardia had agreed to side with the President, the faithful