Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boycotted the White House lunch to protest Reagan's "undoing steps that my father's Administration took 40 to 50 years ago." For other Roosevelts, the happy days were saddened by a more material loss. The President's gift to the nation, his ancestral estate at Hyde Park, N.Y., had caught fire, the result of old, faulty wiring, which caused damage of $2 million to the 35-room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging...
...assess all these controversies of the Roosevelt years has by now become almost an industry, a large and well-organized effort to explain what really happened. The industry's headquarters is at Hyde Park, the first of the great presidential libraries, where more than 150 separate collections of New Deal documents and memoirs are measured not in pages but in linear feet. (One linear foot represents approximately 2,000 pages, and Roosevelt's presidential papers alone extend to 2,076 linear feet...
...exactly a century ago, on Jan. 30, 1882, that the man who worked this transformation was born to wealth and ease in a Hudson River estate at Hyde Park, N.Y. Destined for Groton, Harvard, the law and a life of comfortable obscurity, he became instead not only the President and creator of the New Deal but also the architect of a new political coalition that elected him to four terms and remained in control of Washington for more than two decades. As commander of the Grand Alliance that won World War II, he established the U.S. as the unchallenged leader...
...There will be a wreath-laying ceremony at Roosevelt's birthplace in Hyde Park, and a birthday cake will be served where he died, in Warm Springs, Ga., the mineral-water health resort that he regularly visited for treatment of his physical afflictions...
...take great pleasure in announcing the election of Arthur Francis Nazro of Jamaica Plain, and Edward Bowditch, Jr., of Albany, of the Sophomore class; and of Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park, N. Y., Walter Edward Sachs of New York, and Albert Volwider de Roode of Chicago, of the Freshman class, as regular editors of the CRIMSON...