In Pursuit USA
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In Pursuit is a new national project from More Perfect, featuring essays from Presidents, First Ladies, and leading thinkers.
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Without ever holding elected office, Eleanor Roosevelt redefined the role of first lady from gracious helpmate to public advocate, spending half of each year crossing the country to see the Depression firsthand and bringing what she learned back to the White House.
In a new essay, Hillary Rodham Clinton reflects on Roosevelt—one of her heroes—and the discipline of showing up for the hardest problems confronting the nation and the world.
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President Bill Clinton (@BillClinton) writes about Theodore Roosevelt and a presidency defined by conservation, worker protections, civil service reform and checks on concentrated power.
Roosevelt expanded the role of government and the meaning of “We the People,” while leaving much of that work unfinished.
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President Barack Obama (@BarackObama) writes about Abraham Lincoln and what held the Union together when everything was working to pull it apart.
At the center is Lincoln's argument that individual liberty and the common good aren't opposing forces, and that a democracy survives only when its citizens keep choosing to bind their fates together.
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