Patrick J. Maney, in Prologue (Spring 1994), National Archives, Washington,
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Should President Bill Clinton and his top aides have spent so much time and effort devising a detailed health-care reform bill? The legend- ary example of Franklin D. Roosevelt, brilliant mastermind of all that famous New Deal leg- islation, suggests that Clinton, an FDR ad- mirer, was doing the right thing. But the Roosevelt of legend, warns Maney, a Tulane University historian, is not the same as the Roosevelt...