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DIED. Jonathan Daniels, 79, longtime editor of The News and Observer of Raleigh, eloquent voice of Southern moderation, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's last press secretary; on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Daniels succeeded his father Josephus as editor of the family-owned newspaper in 1933. In 1942, he joined Roosevelt's Administration, becoming press secretary shortly before Roosevelt died in 1945. He returned to the Observer, shirking administrative duties but excelling as an editorial writer who advocated a non-confrontational approach to integrating the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Daniels also wrote more than a dozen books...
...custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...
...cuts viewed by many economists as so risky that all of the President's persuasive powers will be needed to induce the nation to accept them. Predicted Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker: "We're going to have the biggest legislative battle in this country since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and certainly since World...
...cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy spoke to intimates of "my Addison's disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After he was felled by a heart attack, he and his physicians chose full medical disclosure, issuing...
Reagan: I'm glad you asked me that question here in Baltimore, home of the John Birch Society and birthplace of 567 men who died defending our country's honors and values in our last noble war. But to answer your question, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said-(five Reagan aides gag the candidate and remove him from the studio...