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...picks a tube of paint off her desk that’s marked “W.P.A.”—the Works Progress Administration, started by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. The paint in the tubes is still remarkably supple over a half-century later...
Famed economist and Warburg Professor Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith regaled a packed ARCO Forum crowd last night with memories of a lifetime spent working alongside the like of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, and John F. Kennedy...
...Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who Galbraith called the largest political influences in his life, ruled America as if it were an extension of their Hyde Park home, Galbraith said...
...likely to involve small bands of soldiers taking on cells of terrorists in a slow, steady war of attrition. Many, perhaps most, of the bad guys are now in Pakistan and are unlikely to congregate in large numbers again. "Every operation is a combat operation," says Major General Franklin Hagenbeck, the U.S. commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan. "We're here to find them and destroy them...
...biting narrative that begins with a cockfight ends with a saturation of whiny phrases of adulation at gravesite. Brands’ attempt to make Franklin into a believable, fallible man dies once America is born. Lost is Franklin the pragmatist and born is the Franklin of elementary school boredom, a man worthy of reverence because he is dead, white and a founding father...