Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clemente may well become their permanent home; they are planning to use it as their voting address. Although they spent a househunting weekend there in March, they were not the first presidential visitors. One summer afternoon in 1935, Cotton hosted a barbecue for 4,000 guests, among them Franklin Roosevelt...
Vellucci recalled that in 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 had endorsed the sit-in of mine workers led by John L. Lewis. He said that such a sit-in, despite its illegality, drew national attention to a critically wrong situation. "The fact is that now the whole world is watching Harvard. Dr. Pusey should have worked these things out a long time ago. How can Harvard men advise the rest of the world how to live when they can't even straighten our a little mess in their own back yard without calling on Cambridge police for help?" Vellucci said...
...hundred days Franklin Roosevelt led a foundering society back to self-confidence, and no President since 1933 has been allowed to forget it. John Kennedy complained shortly before assuming power: "I'm sick of hearing about a hundred days. I'm not Roosevelt, and these aren't the '30s." But the legend persisted. Lyndon Johnson, in fact, encouraged comparisons, and with pockets stuffed full of legislative box scores he could show by certain singular mathematics a better record than that of his old mentor, F.D.R...
...extra bed in one of the 19 rooms for an unexpected guest, just as there is always another chair?or two or three?at the table. When someone turns up, a few positions are shifted, and the visitor finds himself sitting next to Ted Kennedy, onetime Football Great Roosevelt Grier, Supreme Court Justice Byron ("Whizzer") White, Actress Lauren Bacall?or perhaps a trio of civil rights workers from the South. It all seems so natural, says Dave Hackett, Bobby's prep-school roommate and longtime friend, that "you have the feeling he himself will come walking...
...paper on the organization of U.S. forces in Europe. On June 8, 1942, Ike submitted a document entitled "Directive for the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations." On June 11, as commanding general for Europe, he went to work on his own recommendations. Marshall had persuaded President Roosevelt to reach deep down the seniority list for a man to lead the largest army that any nation in history had ever fielded. "Looks like I'm going to London next week," Eisenhower told his wife. "I'm going to be in command there." Mamie asked: "In command of what?" Ike answered...