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:::OK, given that I will revert. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. -- [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] 04:40, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
== Leaders ==
The recently added list of 20th-century U.S. liberal leaders strikes me as quirky. I certainly agree with:
:[[Hubert H. Humphrey]] - [[Nelson Rockefeller]] - [[John F. Kennedy]] - [[Robert Kennedy]] - [[Edward Kennedy]] - [[Allard K. Lowenstein]] - [[Eugene McCarthy]] - [[George McGovern]] - [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] - [[Paul Wellstone]] - [[Fiorello LaGuardia]] - [[Walter Mondale]]. And I guess I can't argue with the inclusion of [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] (despite some lapses on his part: "benign neglect" and all that), but if he's on the list, then how about other sometimes-lapsed liberals like [[Henry M. Jackson]]?
I would certainly add [[Adlai Stevenson]], probably an even clearer inclusion than some on this list. I'd also consider adding [[Warren G. Magnusson]] (not even an article yet? Jeez), [[Ann Richards]], [[Ralph Bunche]], [[Thurgood Marshall]], [[William Scranton]] (also lacking an article), and [[John V. Lindsay]]; that's just off the top of my head.
Is the inclusion of [[Theodore Roosevelt]] as a "liberal" an implicit way of making the case that the Progressive movement is part of the stream from 19th-century liberalism to modern American liberalism? If so, [[Robert M. La Follette, Sr.]] seems an even more appropriate inclusion in this respect.
[[William O. Douglas]] seems to me to be a bit left of "liberal". On the other hand, [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Bill Clinton]], and [[Harry S Truman]] all were pretty centrist in terms of their times and don't particularly strike me as liberals. All had some liberals in their cabinets (and Carter certainly had one as vice president), but I don't think they themselves were liberals, any more than Lyndon Johnson was.
Also, any reason to include only politicians, not (for example) influential writers like [[Lionel Trilling]] or [[John Rawls]]?
Anyway, these are just suggestions: feel free to act on them, or discuss, or ignore. -- [[User:Jmabel|Jmabel]] | [[User talk:Jmabel|Talk]] 01:09, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
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