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"He bulldoggedly opposed the women's rights movement, other civil-rights crusades and decolonization," objects Time . Roosevelt has better crossover appeal, since, in addition to defeating Hitler, he expanded economic opportunity through the New Deal (and gets credit for his wife's contributions to "feminism and social justice").
Take the now-retired Paul Simon of Illinois, who took a courageous position in support of the balanced-budget amendment and held to it consistently--even in 1995, when the Democrats were one vote short, and wouldn't have succeeded in defeating the amendment without the help of Republican Mark Hatfield.
Now that certain (very literate) people have taken hold of Esperanto and published novels and poetry in it, its chief function as a means of basic communication has been violated, and with the onset of its sophistication it has become more complex, thus defeating its original purpose.
Jesse Owens ' daughter recalls her father's pride at defeating the "master race" during the 1936 Olympics.
The main instrument they used for defeating him was a call for obeisance to a false god, Balancing the Budget.