The Clintons' go-to historical reference: The Roosevelts

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Politico:

Hillary Clinton’s official campaign kickoff event on June 13 at Roosevelt Island in New York will not be the first time that the former secretary of state—or her husband, for that matter—has invoked the famous family in a political setting.

 

The island, named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1971, was previously known as Welfare Island, among other names. Native Americans called it Minnahanonck; it was Varkens Eylandt to the Dutch. And it was Blackwell’s Island for more than two centuries before it was sold to the city.

 

At a dinner last November, Clinton mentioned that she had recently watched the Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelt family and saw how Theodore Roosevelt worked with “imbalances that were in the economy and in society.”

 

“I do think there are parallels between the time in which he served and our own times,” she said.

 

Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor who supported Clinton in 2008 and has remained close to the candidate, is reportedly advising her on how she and her husband fit into recent progressive political history, according to The Huffington Post.

 

Wilentz is one of the leading scholars on Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party’s populist branch.

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