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Jewish World Review June 4, 2012/ 17 Sivan, 5772 Candidates love to ally themselves with admired presidents, in sometimes unexpected ways By David Shribman JewishWorldReview.com | alk through the Hall of Presidents in the National Portrait Gallery and you will see much of American history within a few steps. Over here, hand on chin, is Abraham Lincoln, who saved the Union and set the nation on a course toward racial justice. Over there is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, cigarette holder in hand, architect of the New Deal and of victory in a terrible world war. At the end of the hall is a stunning Chuck Close portrait of Bill Clinton on loan to the gallery that reflects the complexity of the 42nd president. But this is more than a museum. It is a metaphor, and the image you might take in the middle of a spirited political season from these hushed halls might be one of a lending library. This library, to be sure, has only 44 volumes. One is unfinished. All are subject to revision -- and revisionism. The 16th volume is always in high demand, especially so in the Obama years, with a presidency patterned so self-consciously on the Lincoln model. The 35th is slender but well worn; quotes from John F. Kennedy have been in style for a half-century. Hardly anyone pulls off the 31st volume; Herbert Hoover isn't much more acceptable today than he was in 1933, when he left office. And the 30th volume? It has almost nothing in it. Calvin Coolidge had many great virtues, lack of verbosity being chief among them. "The things I don't say," he once said, "never get me into trouble." Presidents never quote that one, and don't remember its wisdom. Lately Barack Obama, who will be in the National Portrait Gallery, and Mitt Romney, who would dearly like to join him there, have been frequent borrowers, and they've made surprising withdrawals. Mr. Obama has been talking in a positive way about Ronald Reagan, for whom he almost certainly didn't vote, and Mr. Romney has been talking brightly about the anti-big-government views of Mr. Clinton, though he has bragged that as an Independent he chose a Democratic ballot in 1992 to vote against the Arkansas governor in the Massachusetts primary. Presidents and candidates for the White House often retreat into the library of presidents. They do so to identify themselves with past greatness, to establish themselves as part of an honored tradition, to contrast their mortal opponents with the remarks and values of the immortals. There's been a fair amount of the latter in recent months. First, Mr. Obama suggested that a Republican icon, Ronald Reagan, wouldn't be conservative enough to appeal to the Tea Partiers in the new, muscular GOP. Then Mr. Romney said this month that Mr. Obama didn't live up to the Clinton tradition of moderation and bipartisanship. In an unusual daily double that deprecated two Democratic presidents in one sentence fragment, Mr. Romney said that killing Osama bin Laden was such a natural, logical decision that "even Jimmy Carter would have given that order." This was a campaign tour-de-force. There never has been predictability in presidential borrowing. Richard Nixon, as partisan a Republican who ever occupied the White House, nonetheless admired Woodrow Wilson, a two-term Democratic president who is one of the new GOP's favorite targets for opprobrium. He also had a soft spot for Hoover, a fellow California Republican who, more than eight decades later, still remains a potent symbol for economic distress and presidential insensitivity. Nixon admired Wilson's sense of internationalism and Hoover's eye for government efficiency. Mr. Clinton in recent years has grown close to his 1992 rival, George H. W. Bush, with whom he engaged in a bitter election struggle, and in his 2008 campaign Mr. Obama said he had "enormous sympathy for the foreign policy" of the elder Bush. The most unlikely pairing might have been Reagan and Kennedy, who shared a taste for showmanship and an affinity for Hollywood but who are aligned in history as advocates for tax cuts. In truth, Reagan, whose economic convictions were strong, believed in reducing taxes a lot more than did Kennedy, who was an avowed novice in economics and a cheerful but committed conscientious objector to learning more about it. But Reagan used the Kennedy precedent to lure reluctant Democrats into his tax-cut brigade and to give moderate Democrats political cover for supporting his economic ethos. Presidents and candidates ordinarily embrace icons from their own ideology, which is why George W. Bush patterned himself after William McKinley, who never before or since has been cited as an example of anything for anybody. FDR used Wilson imagery, which was natural because he served as assistant secretary of the Navy in the Wilson administration, and Nixon basked in the reflective glory of Dwight D. Eisenhower, for whom he served two uncomfortable, tumultuous terms as vice president. In office there is little danger in cross-party compliments. Lincoln is a safe lodestar for presidents of both parties and, until recently, so was FDR, whom Reagan supported early in his career when he was a Democrat. Kennedy is a man for all political seasons because his idealism, resolve and sense of national purpose are admired today even by people who were alive to criticize him as shallow and callow. But in a campaign setting, these sorts of bipartisan borrowings pose peril. Mr. Obama may admire Reagan's optimism, his natural political skills and his ability to persuade Congress to do just about anything he wanted, but the incumbent possesses few of those traits, and the contrast between the two of them can only be to Mr. Obama's disadvantage. Mr. Romney may admire Mr. Clinton's moderation, his emotional openness and his political intuition, but the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee possesses none of those attributes, and the contrast between the two of them diminishes rather than enhances the former Massachusetts governor. Not that presidents are beyond diminishing each other. John Adams referred to George Washington as "Old Muttonhead." Andrew Jackson said of John Quincy Adams that he "must be demented." Lincoln called James K. Polk "a bewildered, confounded and miserably perplexed man." And Wilson once called Chester A. Arthur "a nonentity with side whiskers." To all of which we might add: Takes one to know one. And this, too, our lesson for this morning: Beware presidents quoting presidents. The lending library is always open, but history belongs to the presidents who write their own volumes, not to those who crib from earlier works. Comment by clicking here. David Shribman, a Pulitzer Prize winner in journalism, is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Previously: 05/29/12 Americans aren't in a new burst of patriotism but they are in a new burst of appreciation for the military 05/21/12 Inside out: Almost nothing about this year's presidential election conforms to conventional analysis 05/14/12 Lugar grew into an elder statesman, which is why he'll be leaving the Senate 05/07/12 50 years later, MacArthur's farewell to arms continues to inspire 04/30/12 The likability factor: We're going to find out how important it is in these troubled times 04/23/12 Romney's four battles: With the nomination essentially in hand, he must turn to new challenges 04/16/12 For GOPers, expect the frustration to build, not abate 04/09/12 The political battles you cannot see 04/02/12 Romney's roadmap: Doing better in Democratic states may complicate his fall campaign 03/26/12 Romney struggles with same GOP forces his father faced long ago 03/19/12 The writer and the president 03/12/12 Romney could learn from his rivals after Super Tuesday 03/05/12 The GOP race continues, and Republicans continue to grouse about their choices 02/27/12 The turnout threat: when voters vamoose 02/20/12 The Winter's Tale: Republicans are engaged in a 'problem play,' full of psychological, and real, drama 02/13/12 Which Ike to like? 02/08/12 A tale of two elections: Voters today are making their most profound choice since 1912 01/30/12 Whither the GOP establishment? 01/23/12 The Democratic coalition is breaking up 01/09/12 The verdict that wasn't 01/02/12 These are the keys to who will persist 12/19/11 Another Gingrich rebellion 12/12/11 A defining fight for the GOP 12/05/11 A distinct lack of enthusiasm 11/28/11 For GOPers, the winds are beginning to pick up, the horizon is darkening 11/21/11 Today's polarized politics . . . blame FDR and the political scientists 11/11/11The sporting life 11/07/11 Ron Paul, true believer 10/31/11 Why Cain isn't able 10/10/11 GOP starting over 10/03/11 The Forgotten War of 1812 09/26/11 The way we live now 09/19/11 The crisis this time 09/11/11 But what will it mean? 09/05/11 A horse race column: Who might win the GOP nomination and how it might unfold 08/29/11 The vacuum calls 08/22/11 Passion and politics: How Barack Obama and Mitt Romney got crowded into the same dangerous corner 08/15/11 Eleanor's little village 08/08/11 The agony of August 08/01/11 The politics of the impossible: What a country this might be if the political class served the broad interests of the majority 07/25/11 Pennant fever grips 'Burgh 07/18/11 Exemplar of an era 07/11/11 On summer 07/04/11 The soul of the party 06/27/11 What the Secretary said 06/20/11 Romney has big advantages over his rivals, but they will be coming after him 06/06/11 One question each 05/30/11 The 14-week challenge 05/23/11 Delay tactics 05/16/11 Republicans are waiting 05/09/11 Bin Laden is dead. What does it mean? 05/02/11 From nobodies to nominees 04/25/11 The founders left slavery for future generations to settle, and we still haven't fully come to terms with it 04/18/11 From audacious to cautious 04/11/11 Dreaming of space 12/12/10 The GOP takes control 12/06/10 DECEMBER 7 11/29/10 GOP presidential hopefuls already are lining up local supporters in what is now a red state 11/22/10 Burning down the House 11/15/10 Institutions of higher learning are finally beginning to teach important lifeskills 11/04/10 The war has just begun 11/01/10 Echoes of a speech 40 years ago this week still resonate today 10/25/10 50 years ago America chose between two men who were dramatically different --- and eerily similar © 2011, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Distributed by Universal Uclick, as agent for UFS.

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