Word: franklins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported later) all the times she had watched her husband sworn in to public office. This time another Roosevelt-brawny, 34-year-old Franklin D. Jr.-had stepped onto the national political stage...
...more striking coming from the man who, as Senator, had done so much to steer Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal through Congress, had been rewarded with Supreme Court robes and a Cabinet...
...Franklin Jr. had a well-prepared little statement for newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt...
Next day, Franklin Roosevelt sat down in an inconspicuous seat on the Democratic side, dutifully boned up on House procedure, and whispered occasionally to his colleagues. With his name, his smile, his war record and his apparent political charm, he had a potential political future that no other American of his age could match. His own major problem, it now seemed, would be how to deserve all that might be thrust...
Johnson, Wilbur Vance of 2315 50th Avenue South, Seattle; Franklin High, Seattle McNair, George Norvell of Farmington: Lewis and Clark High, Spokane Robertson, Ralph Dean, Jr. of 1101 Liberty Street, Bellingham; Bellingham High. Stewart, Charles Henry of Box 508, Ellensburg, Wash.: Lakeside School, Seattle...