David M. Shribman: Presidents Day salutes nation’s remarkable leaders David M. Shribman © Provided by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
One of them campaigned for income supplements for veterans of the American Revolution. Another came into prominence for vetoing an inflated street-cleaning contract in Buffalo. A third boasted of not being a Caesar or a Napoleon but a “plain Hoosier colonel, with no more relish for a fight than for a good breakfast and hardly so much.”
Happy Presidents Day. And a brisk salute for three chief executives seldom held in high regard: James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.
One of them conquered a weakness for the drink and the Confederate States of America. Another conquered ileitis, a bad temper and Nazi Germany. A third conquered a bad back, a stalwart senator and Richard Nixon.
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January 26, 2021
PULLMAN, Wash. – Four of the nation’s leading experts on constitutional democracy will discuss current crises in the U.S. and abroad in a series of free, online events beginning Wednesday, Feb. 16.
The noon-hour events are hosted by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public and Public Service at Washington State University, whose mission is to educate the public about American government and democratic institutions, encourage public service and to promote scholarly research on public policy and political institutions.
“In recent years hyper-partisanship and polarization has severely tested America’s constitutional structures and democratic norms. In the past year alone, we witnessed two impeachments of a sitting president and an insurrection that desecrated the nation’s Capitol,” said Cornell Clayton, C.O. Johnson distinguished professor of political science and director of the Foley Institute. “We are living in a time of almost unparalleled threat
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NorthJersey.com
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not hold back in his grandiose unveiling of his vision for a $306 billion statewide infrastructure plan during his State of the State address Thursday, invoking Shakespeare, Mark Twain and former state Govs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and DeWitt Clinton of New Deal and Erie Canal fame, respectively.
But he did hold back details, opting instead to broadly reiterate in his fourth State of the State speech this week that New York will climb out of this pandemic and its economic fallout by building bigger and better and laying the foundation for our future with a priority of expanding access to mass transit.
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NorthJersey.com
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not hold back in his grandiose unveiling of his vision for a $306 billion statewide infrastructure plan during his State of the State address Thursday, invoking Shakespeare, Mark Twain and former state Govs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and DeWitt Clinton of New Deal and Erie Canal fame, respectively.
But he did hold back details, opting instead to broadly reiterate in his fourth State of the State speech this week that New York will climb out of this pandemic and its economic fallout by building bigger and better and laying the foundation for our future with a priority of expanding access to mass transit.
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