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...serving director, Brown became chairman of the cable television arts network Ovation and continued to serve as chairman of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. As chairman of the Commission, Brown advised on the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the memorial to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the National World War II Memorial.“I think throughout Carter’s professional career, doing things in the highest possible taste and quality was a number one element,” says Cunningham, “and that governed everything...
Almost 70 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, and a former Crimson editor, became alarmed by the worsening polio epidemics that were killing or paralyzing thousands of children and adults in the U.S. each year. The nation was deep into the Depression. Money was desperately needed to provide care for polio patients as well as to support research to find a vaccine against the dreaded disease. Roosevelt knew first-hand the devastation caused by polio—he himself was affected by it in 1921, and never walked unaided again...
When doctors first documented cases of AIDS 25 years ago among gay men and drug users, many Evangelicals assumed the epidemic was not their problem. Evangelist Franklin Graham--son of Billy, father of four, grandfather of four--helped to change that attitude and to persuade the Bush Administration in 2003 to earmark $15 billion for the struggle against AIDS. Graham, 53, spoke with TIME's Christine Gorman about AIDS, Darfur and motorcycles...
...pacifist streak that seems hopelessly naive in retrospect. Beard, best known as co-author with his wife, Mary, of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, which argued that the founders were operating more out of monetary self-interest than democratic ideals, went on to be a vocal critic of Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to help the Allies during World...
...Franklin Foer is editor of the New Republic and author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization