Word: roosevelt
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...sophomores became the first rooming group in decades to occupy the room of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904—and they found the room almost as it was at the turn of the century...
...says, noting that his name comes from the Hebrew darshan—an itinerant preacher who would go from town to town to teach. Dershowitz also bears in his professorial title the name of Felix Frankfurter—a law-school professor who was appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, to serve on the Supreme Court and was once referred to by the Saturday Evening Post as “the most single influential person in the country...
...teaching is very likely and indeed should be helped by what you learn outside the academic routine,” says John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus, who at 94 is a living example of a legendary public intellectual, having served as a top adviser to Franklin Roosevelt...
...diaries were allowed. No photographs, no recordings. Expendable papers were burned daily. So George Elsey's memory has become one of the great ledgers of America's wartime history. Elsey saw Roosevelt's original fervor for his maps and battle reports waste away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made...
...Before Roosevelt left for Warm Springs, Ga., in March 1945, he asked for a map projecting the sectors in Europe for the first of May. Roosevelt died before he saw it. "The last map" was returned to the White House, and Elsey took it over, saving it from destruction. A few years ago he gave it back to the White House, and today it hangs over the mantel in the Map Room, now stately and elegant with its thick carpets and polished Chippendale furniture. Today's Presidents plan their wars in the Situation Room, built in the West Wing during...