Michael Durkin is splendid as President McKinley and a bartender named Dooley, among other roles, and Michael Hardart is bully as Teddy Roosevelt.
A decade and a half later, when I was a not-quite senior staffer in the Carter White House, I was in the habit of suggesting to whoever would listen that it would be a splendid idea for President Carter to nominate Anthony Lewis for a seat on the Supreme Court.
"I think they've done a really splendid job," said Emily Rafferty, president of the Met, who viewed the Bellarmine on one of several preview tours.
Hoover himself could not suggest a better saving of shoe leather, and this is a splendid way of supporting President coolidge's economy program.... View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By Andy Borowitz By Jia Tolentino.
The outcome of President Barack Obama's "splendid little war" in Libya continues to unravel.
The events of this week served to underline the fact that the war on terrorism was always really about Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that President George W. Bush's splendid little adventure in Iraq was always a sideshow, even though it siphoned off the biggest chunk of manpower and resources.
In December, when the president opened Astana's splendid new indoor tennis courts, many of his countrymen were shivering through a winter without any gas or electricity.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt marveled how splendid it was "that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," according to an American Film Institute history.
Igor Munteanu: Vice President Biden provided a splendid public speech in the capital city of Chisinau, in front of thousands of Moldovans, eager to see and to listen to the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the country.
They were splendid theater, those conferences, dominated by a president who spoke with wit and in whole paragraphs.
