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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 1:41 PM
Subject: re: Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
To the Editor:
Even before she has enunciated any positions, senator Clinton is checking out the dog-whistle rhetoric. When she says "the deck is stacked", historians hear echoes of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal" and of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal". But no one believes that she means to remake the relationship of wealth to power in this country as the two Roosevelts did, each in his generation.
Even before she has enunciated any positions, senator Clinton is checking out the dog-whistle rhetoric. When she says "the deck is stacked", historians hear echoes of Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal" and of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal". But no one believes that she means to remake the relationship of wealth to power in this country as the two Roosevelts did, each in his generation.
So credit her speech-writer with a nice historical flourish. But I'm waiting for a leader.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-campaign.html
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