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...Many of the Black scholars that the Rosovsky committee talked with said they were skeptical about the value of forming a separate department to study African-American history," recalls former Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford. "There were very few great Black scholars out there who wanted to identify their race with their principal teaching responsibilities...
...article in the April 13 issue of the Crimson incorrectly identified Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 as the grand-uncle of gubernatorial candidate Mark Roosevelt '78. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a distant fifth cousin, three times removed, of Mark Roosevelt...
...Wyman, who appeared on camera as a commentator. The documentary echoes charges in Wyman's book that State Department bigots tried to suppress accounts of the genocide from gaining a wide audience and that they blocked Jewish refugees from entering the U.S. America and the Holocaust also attacks President Franklin D. Roosevelt for bending to political expediency in failing to take actions that might have saved more Jewish lives. Keepers of the F.D.R. flame -- notably historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. -- immediately responded that the program was biased and distorted...
...occasionally had some political discussion.I came from a Bohemian background, where I hadlearned that to be a republican, you had to beeither rich or stupid," Weld's roommate Peter C.Brooks '66 says. "I was brought up with the ideasof social action and a good conscience. I mean, myhero was Franklin Roosevelt. That was contrary to[Weld's] background...
...fact, America's idealism and realism have been interwoven ever since Benjamin Franklin played an ingenious balance-of-power game in France while simultaneously propagandizing about America's exceptional values. From the Monroe Doctrine to Manifest Destiny, the U.S. has linked its interests to its ideals. This was especially true during the cold war, which was a moral crusade as well as a security struggle...