Word: delano
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America has fought a long and hard war for global democracy since the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. Now the nation must turn inward and correct some of the many problems that threaten to destroy what we have fought to preserve...
...Dear George: You win again. F.D.R." The George was George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and the F.D.R. was, of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was congratulating him for persuading a reluctant Congress to pass a bill they both deemed essential for Allied victory in World War II. Short as it was, the President's letter summarized his admiration for the co-architect of American strategy: without Marshall in Washington, he said, he could not sleep at night. In fact, that justifiable anxiety cost Marshall the job he so greatly coveted: Supreme Commander in Europe, which went instead...
...this portrait of a city remarkably unprepared and unwilling to coordinate the war effort, Washington Goes to War is also a celebration of and a tribute to the men and women whose contributions to the war effort in Washington were invaluable. Chief among these, Brinkley implies, was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 himself...
Perhaps they were being illogical in the expectation. Ronald Reagan's agenda when he came to Washington was to undo as much as possible the work of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now, after 59 months of consecutive economic growth in Reagan's Roaring Eighties, trouble arrived, and everyone (even businessmen who hate Government interference) expected Reagan to start sounding like F.D.R. They may even have wanted him to get on television after the crash and say, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Suddenly they wanted activism from a President who has always believed Government should essentially...
HOSPITALIZED. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 72, son of the 32nd President and Democratic Congressman representing New York's 20th District from 1949 to 1954; in critical but improving condition following surgery after he, Wife Linda, 47, and Son Jack, 9, were thrown from a horse-drawn cart on their farm in Millbrook, N.Y.; in Poughkeepsie...