Obama's Internationalism: Echoes of FDR, HST and JFK
Stephen Schlesinger
Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation
President Obama gave a speech last week in Moscow that conjures up memories of our greatest foreign policy presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Two lines from Obama's address directly echo the themes and concerns of these three 20th century Democratic leaders.
Author and Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation
President Obama gave a speech last week in Moscow that conjures up memories of our greatest foreign policy presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and John Kennedy. Two lines from Obama's address directly echo the themes and concerns of these three 20th century Democratic leaders.
Labels: FDR, HST, JFK, Obama, Stephen Schlesinger
posted by Debra Conway at
7/13/2009 10:54:00 AM
1 Comments:
I thought Chris Matthews was right, for once, when he described Teddy Kennedy's endorsement of Obama at American University last year as "the old lion" passing the torch to "the new lion." But there are also important distinctions between JFK and President Obama. I've blogged on some of them at http://comparingobama2jfk.blogspot.com/ and posted today about the relative civility and decency of the two.
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