FDR's national political strategy coalition forged in 1993???

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...I know Hillary Clinton was speaking with Eleanor Roosevelt frequently in the White House while the Clintons were there, but did FDR wait until Bill Clinton was elected for his great coalition to unfold? <Apparent error in the 9-11-2002 article that has still not been corrected>

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SEPTEMBER 11 , 2002
The Hill
OP-ED

Needed: A strategic vision for 21st Century
By Daniel A. Rezneck
<From the vantage point of the 21st century and with the benefit of hindsight, the American political topography of the 20th century now stands out clearly.>

What we see is that in the last 100 years there have been only two successful and enduring national political strategies. One was the coalition forged by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1993. The other was the Southern Strategy forged by Richard Nixon and his Republican successors.

Although it’s hard enough for historians to fathom the past, much less predict the future, those successes, and the circumstances that produced them, can offer some useful guidance for politicians and historians today.

FDR’s coalition enabled the Democratic Party to win five consecutive presidential elections. It was composed chiefly of the Solid South, industrial workers, farmers, minority groups and middle-class reformers, with some overlap among them. The catalyst for its creation was the Great Depression and the pervasive economic insecurity that hard times engendered.

Nixon’s remaking of the GOP through his Southern Strategy led to five Republican victories in six presidential elections. Taken down to the present, the figure is six out of nine.

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<link> http://www.hillnews.com/issues/091102/op_ed_rezneck.shtm

I did not realize that Teddy Roosevelt's famous saying was used against those with wealth:

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"One 20th century president, Theodore Roosevelt, did try. He carried the “big stick,” railed against the “malefactors of the great wealth,” and christened his final crusade the “New Nationalism.”"

My history teachers <more than one> always discussed TR's use of that phrase as justification for the Panama Canal construction and the large U.S. naval force that kept the peace.