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Article: TO LIBERALS' REGRET, GALBRAITH WAS A PRESIDENT LOST.(EDITORIAL)(JOHN NICHOLS)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
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- May 2, 2006
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Byline: John Nichols
Had it not been for the accident of his birth in Iona Station, Ontario, John Kenneth Galbraith, the greatest public intellectual of the second half of the American 20th century, would surely have been considered presidential timber.
As it was, the man whose Canadian birth barred him from seeking the nation's highest office had to settle for shaping every presidency since that of Franklin Roosevelt -- either as a trusted counselor to the occupant of the Oval Office, a wise critic or, as was frequently the case, both.
One of the last veterans of the Roosevelt epic's first term -- during which he worked with the Agricultural ...