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Here is how a widely-used encyclopedia describes Kennedy's assassination (the text was written by Warren Professor of American History Emeritus Frank B. Freidel...
Though it has become common to focus on what Presidents do or fail to do, Frank Freidel of the University of Washington, whose monumental Franklin D. Roosevelt has reached the fourth out of eight volumes, emphasizes that Congress caused difficulties almost from the beginning. Says he: "Congress, as it is intended to be in the Constitution, was a very important tempering influence, and even in 1935 it required enormous efforts on Roosevelt's part to get what he wanted." Yale's Blum also charges Roosevelt with failure to end the Depression, and he puts the blame not only...
...department will soon be seeking a successor to Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, who will leave the University this year to teach at the University of Washington, MacCaffrey said, adding that "We'll be filling it as soon as possible...
Stratton, who was in Cambridge last week, says that after making her fortuitous excursion to the attic, she returned to Harvard in search of an adviser but could find no frontier historian in the History Department. She finally appealed to Frank Freidel. Warren Professor of American History, inquiring if he would be free for an independent study. Sorry, no time, he told her. "Then I told him I had 800 memoirs from Kansas pioneers that no one had ever seen before." He found time. Working closely with Freidel and Michael F. Jimenez, a graduate student in history. Stratton produced...
Ronald Reagan has said what he intends to do as President with considerable power and sincerity. Now it remains for him to translate words into action. The success of his presidency could rest on how quickly, adroitly and decisively he moves in the next few weeks. Says Frank Freidel, American history professor at Harvard: "If Reagan is going to be an F.D.R. of the right, he is going to have to act rapidly and not let the good will evaporate. The time is past for general exhortation. We had that in the Inaugural speech. Now is the tune for specifics...