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...summer of '44, this bucolic hotel at the base of the Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains might well have been at the top of the world. It was then and there that Franklin D. Roosevelt and the leaders of 43 other nations met under its Spanish Renaissance rooftops and established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the gold standard--the basic structure of postwar international finance...
...Kermit Roosevelt was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, class of 1880 and a distant cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, class...
...However, Kermit Roosevelt's fame did not come through electoral politics, but through clandestine activities. As CIA chief in the Middle East in the 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt organized a successful coup to bring Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi to power in Iran and remove Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh...
...Kermit Roosevelt wrote a book about his experience during the coup...
James B. Conant ’14, the 23rd President of Harvard, was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Bok was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...