Word: freidel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This work fills a significant gap in scholarly research. Previously, Harvard dissertations were difficult to obtain, even on microfilm," said Warren Professor of American History Emeritus Frank B. Freidel. Freidel and the current Warren professor, Ernest R. May, made the selections in the area of American history and political science...
...minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned that Hoover was the first President to have a phone in his office. No, countered Arthur Link editor of the Woodrow Wilson papers, there is a photo showing three phones on Wilson's desk. Frank Freidel, biographer of Franklin Roosevelt, reminded them that Benjamin Harrison said it was beneath the President's dignity to answer a telephone.* The relationship between Reagan and his wife Nancy was absolutely vital in understanding his presidency, said Morris' wife Sylvia, herself a biographer (Edith Kermit Roosevelt). Keep...
...Reagan know, asked Freidel, that Eleanor Roosevelt was for school prayer and against ERA? Nancy was amazed. Eleanor also held regular press conferences, the professor related. Nancy signed...
...Freidel made the point that the more he got to know about F.D.R., the better he found him to be as a President. Hatfield contended that Hoover would be judged by history not as a President who ended an era but as a man who began one Nash brought mirth when the discussion turned to the press: Hoover once said that any President should have the right to shoot at least two people a year without explanation...
...Many memorial were dedicated to the slain leader," according to Freidel. Cape Canaveral in Florida, for example, was renamed in his honor and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library was established for his public papers and effects...