All Posts Tagged With: "Grover Cleveland"
Reed at National Review Online
FEE President Lawrence W. Reed contributed to National Review Online’s “The Presidents: A Conservative Tour.” Here’s a teaser: He supported sound money, free trade, and balanced budgets…. “Though the people may support the government,” he opined, “the government should not support the people.” And he was a Democrat! Scroll through and see whom he’s talking [...]
21Feb2011 | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski | 1 comment | ContinuedPresidents and Precedents
America’s 44th president has embarked on a massive expansion of the federal establishment that, if accomplished, will dwarf all previous welfare states in its spending and debt. Americans will largely depend on politicians and their underlings for a significant portion of their heavily mortgaged livelihoods. It’s a path to national suicide that would horrify most [...]
24Feb2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Alvin Felzenberg, like many thoughtful scholars, has a beef with the way historians have evaluated American presidents. Ever since 1948, the year of the first Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. poll, historians have ranked American presidents and published the results. In the case of Schlesinger’s poll, a select group of historians ranked all presidents (except for those [...]
24Apr2009 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedLarry Reed Discusses Grover Cleveland
Hat tip Gerry Nicholls
18Nov2008 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedHistorical Reputations
In an election year it is useful to try to remove oneself from the hubbub of daily campaign news and advertisements and to imagine how the candidates will be viewed by historians. This is not a simple exercise, and the attempt will reveal a number of widespread attitudes that affect our view of both past [...]
1Nov2008 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Great Contraction, 1929–33
The recession that began in mid-1929 need not have become a disaster. Many downturns had occurred previously in U.S. economic history, and nearly all of them had been fairly shallow and soon followed by recovery and continued growth. In the nineteenth century most people had believed that the government neither knew how nor possessed the [...]
1Apr2007 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedPresidents and Poverty
Conventional wisdom holds that fighting poverty
has only lately been a concern of American
presidents, and that before Franklin Roosevelt
it was hardly a concern at all. This stubborn error
persists.
Why Grover Cleveland Vetoed the Texas Seed Bill
Grover Cleveland was the last U.S. president with a valid claim to be known as a classical liberal. (By the time “Silent Cal” Coolidge became president, the big-government horse was already out of the barn, and Ronald Reagan as president was as much the big-government problem as he was the solution.) A lawyer who lacked [...]
1Jul2003 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedA Tale of Two Brain Trusts
“A political war,” said Raymond Moley, “is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.”1 He knew what he was talking about. Moley was the organizer and unofficial leader of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust,” the coterie of close advisers and speechwriters who helped FDR win the election of 1932 and assisted in formulating many [...]
1Oct2002 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedGrover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky
St. Martin’s Press • 2000 • 496 pages • $35.00 Having just endured vacuousness on a grand scale in the last presidential campaign and eight years of verbal subterfuge and prevarication under Bill Clinton, Americans are in need of an inspiration from their political past. They have it in the person of our principled 22nd [...]
1May2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedKeep the Electoral College
Should the Electoral College be abolished? Last year’s presidential election raised the question once again, but it also answered it with an emphatic NO! The framers of the Constitution knew precisely what they were doing when they established the system for electing presidents, which is more than anyone can say about the people who spent [...]
1Mar2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | ContinuedTransforming the Political Marketplace
What we expect from our politicians goes a long way toward determining what kind of politicians we can expect to find in office. Just as suppliers compete by trying to please their customers, politicians compete by trying to please voters. Just as the features of cars tell us something about the preferences of car buyers, [...]
1Dec1999 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedClinton versus Cleveland and Coolidge on Taxes
In a post-State of the Union speech in Buffalo, New York, on January 20, 1999, President William Jefferson Clinton was asked why Americans shouldn’t get a tax cut since the federal budget is in surplus and the share of personal income taken by the federal government is at a post-World War II high. Is this [...]
1Jul1999 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedStar-Spangled Men: America’s Ten Worst Presidents by Nathan Miller
Scribner • 1998 • 272 pages • $23.00 Gene Healy is a student at the University of Chicago Law School. Historians who evaluate American presidents suffer from a bias against inaction. In the conventional view, great presidents are the nation builders and the war leaders; the failures are the ones who “never did anything.” Nathan [...]
1Mar1999 | Gene Healy | 0 comments | ContinuedMy Kind of President
When historians are asked to grade the men who have served as America’s presidents, they usually give high marks to the so-called “activist” ones—those who expanded the frontiers of the central government, pushed taxes and spending higher, and left a mark on the country by foisting vast new bureaucracies on future generations. I prefer activist [...]
1Mar1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 3 comments | Continued-
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