NEWSNIGHT: Roosevelt as a role model
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Channel: BBC Politics · 2014 · News & Politics
It's a feature of modern politics in this country that party leaders hark not to past British politicians for inspiration, but rather American greats - particularly - in the case of George Osborne, William Hague and Michael Howard to LBJ, and Gordon Brown to JFK, but in Ed Miliband's case the evidence for his admiration for a previous American president is, for one, his oft repeated phrase " producer" not "predator" capitalism..... As inspired by the Republican present Theodore Roosevelt, the man who promised " a square deal for every man, great or small rich or poor." Kirsty Wark talks to American biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin whose latest work is a biography of Roosevelt, The Bully Pulpit..
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