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Picnics, swimming, basketball, tricycle races--sounds like summer camp. Actually, these are some of the activities of the sailors and soldiers on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, located in the Arabian Sea, who were given their first day off in 43 days. See our photo essay of what the sailors fondly call a "steel-beach picnic" at time.com/roosevelt
...Margot Roosevelt...
...committee on the History of American Civilization and of course just plain History. This focus on history seems fitting for the oldest academic institution in America, one that prides itself on producing some of American history’s most influential figures—John Adams, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...right path between these two virtues. During wartime, America has a long and not very glorious history of sacrificing liberty in favor of security. John Adams championed the Alien and Sedition Acts during a period of tension with France. Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War. Franklin Roosevelt tolerated the internment of Japanese-Americans during World...
...Further, Roosevelt hired William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan to assemble the OSS, a large mixed bag of talents that came to include, among others, Julia Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated...