By Terry Golway 1/29/01 12:00am

Forty Years Later, Ike’s Words Resonate

Bill Clinton has followed the tradition of most two-term

Presidents by wishing us farewell. But now that the Celebrity Presidency has

replaced the Imperial Presidency, a Presidential farewell address seems as

anachronistic as a horse-and-buggy ride down Pennsylvania Avenue. John Quincy

Adams said there is nothing so pathetic as an ex-President; Mr. Clinton very

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By David Michaelis 6/28/99 12:00am

The First First Lady, Vol. 2 (and a Handbook for Hillary?)

Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2, 1933-1938 , by Blanche Wiesen Cook. Viking, 686 pages, $34.95.

The big story with Eleanor Roosevelt was change. She began as a sheltered Hudson River Valley aristocrat and ended up a radical world citizen, the universally respected “First Lady of the World.” As the 20th century’s most influential woman, a selfless Read More