Word: roosevelt
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...members know that their constituents want them to act on these matters, but they are not quite sure how. Hardly had they returned to their offices when the President started pressuring them to pass his energy program. At a senior staff meeting early in the week in the Roosevelt Room, Carter told his aides to put the heat on Congress. "When there's unfavorable committee action," he said, "we ought to call it exactly as it is." A top aide later warned that the White House may have to start playing rough with legislators who do not cooperate...
Adams' work?and his 60-year association with the Sierra Club, including 37 years as a member of its board of directors?has exerted a steady pressure on U.S. conservation and parks policy. Adams' limited-edition book Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail (1938) helped persuade Franklin D. Roosevelt to shepherd a bill through Congress that turned the Kings Canyon area of east-central California into a national park...
DIED. Frank Peavey Heffelfinger, 81, former chairman of Peavey Co., a century-old Minneapolis grain firm; in Minneapolis. He spent his career in the family business but took time out to serve as regional director of the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt and as finance chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Republican National Committee...
...decades the evenings in the capital were enriched with stories like the one about Franklin Roosevelt's coaxing Ambassador Joseph Kennedy out of a vacation and then with great relish firing him. F.D.R. was a real gossip, demanding every morning the tantalizing doings of the night before. "I had dinner with [Senator Authur] Capper and he was snapping garters all night," chortled an aide one time. Roosevelt roared, eyes bright. "Is he still doing that? he asked, recalling that the old boy was on the prowl back when Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 20 years earlier...
DIED. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 88, liberal economist who, as a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust," masterminded many of the New Deal's reforms; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Tugwell was a professor at Columbia University when recruited to assist Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, in his quest for the presidency. Appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in 1933, he became one of F.D.R.'s most powerful advisers, supporting sweeping social welfare programs, tough Government regulation of industry and subsidies to farmers for not planting surplus crops. Appointed Governor of Puerto Rico by Roosevelt...