Word: roosevelt
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...night brainstorming policy only to revisit the outcome the next day, Bush is famously decisive and anchored in his beliefs, charging forward, not looking back. You expect that when one party reclaims the White House some redecorating is in order: Bush might replace those portraits of Franklin Roosevelt with cousin Teddy's. But Richard Nixon didn't ax the Peace Corps, while Bush let AmeriCorps go through several near-death experiences even though it was the one program Clinton personally asked him to protect. Over at the Agency for International Development, officials spent $100,000 on a collage to cover...
...unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced by historians...
...Roosevelt and Churchill were born eight years apart (Churchill being the elder). As Meacham writes, "They loved tobacco, strong drink, history, the sea, battleships, hymns, pageantry, patriotic poetry, high office, and hearing themselves talk. 'Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time,' said [Churchill's daughter] Mary Soames." Each had a powerful sense of the stagecraft of statesmanship. Each was physically brave, profoundly ambitious, a consummate actor and a superb politician. Each was the son of a rich American mother. (Roosevelt, infinitely doted upon, had a happy childhood; Churchill was famously neglected...
Meacham's version contains no revisionism or lese majeste. On the contrary, it is written with a sort of intelligent reverence and ends by looking at the Churchill and Roosevelt memorials in Westminster Abbey in light filtered through stained-glass windows: "Light from a world Roosevelt and Churchill together delivered from evil...
...some ways Churchill--a sweeter man, more exterior, spontaneous, decent, forgiving--emerges as a more attractive human being than Roosevelt, whose magnificently confident facade concealed a character capable of immense deceit, chilling detachment and cunning superficiality. Roosevelt and Churchill had become fast friends in the early days of the war, when Churchill stayed in the White House for weeks at a time. Churchill said, "No lover ever studied the whims of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt." Roosevelt, on the other hand, told Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, "I'm nearly dead. I have to talk...