It is one of the great American stories, involving three great Americans and perhaps the most valuable piece of real estate in the United States. The principals were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt along with Henry Adams, the fabled historian and intellectual. The setting was Adams' home right across the park from the White House.
The talk everywhere -- in the newspapers, on cable TV, on Wall Street, in European and Asian markets -- is of an economic meltdown. That's too narrow a perspective. We're witnessing a far broader meltdown.
They helped affirm the importance of television in American politics, making John F.
They're off. The sprint to the general election has begun, and so have the calculations, interrogations, interpretations and exaggerations. The last two elections were nearly dead heats. This one begins the September stretch with John McCain and Barack Obama very close in the polls -- and with more than half the states already ruled out of contention by one side or the other.