Article: When Roosevelt Met Ironic Detachment.(Politics&Opinions)

Byline: Terry Golway

Let us this week take liberties with the style of some of our finest political writers, and imagine how they would have covered the nation's capital during a famous few years back in the old century:

WASHINGTON--Poor Little Frankie! He wants so much to be Al Smith, but he just doesn't have it in him to put on a brown derby and trade in the pince-nez for a couple of gold teeth. He handles his oh-so-Hudson Valley cigarette holder with such aplomb he makes Ronald Colman's Clive of India look like a Tammany hack, but Roosevelt of Hyde Park wants us to believe that he understands the problems of the working man. Or non-working man, if you ...

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