Word: roosevelt
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...Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, is famous for saying “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...
...James B. Conant ’14, the 23rd president of Harvard was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Rudenstine’s predecessor, Derek C. Bok, was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...
...working on the twelfth president of my life. They come and go. I grew up in Washington D.C. Each new president brings a new cast of characters to town, a new atmosphere, a new presidential personality, a new way of looking at the world. How different Truman was from Roosevelt. Both my parents were journalists, and, believe it or not, I picked up the Roosevelt-Truman difference, even when I was five. How different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright and handsome...
...viewed in the same light as leading an impressive government. A look back at Bush’s illustrious predecessors is highly instructive. Analysts have focused specifically on a president’s first 100 days since the sweeping program of reforms enacted in early 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class...
...Lake City through the White House for a private tour. Rove's tired, pale-blue eyes danced as he showed off the Cabinet Room. "I love this painting," he said moments later, unspooling the history of a Norman Rockwell that hangs next to the Oval Office door. In the Roosevelt Room, he told how F.D.R. used the space to house his aquariums. Down the hall he expounded on a print showing Lincoln at the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Throughout, he was a manic bundle of energy. Near the end of the tour, Glade Curtis, an obstetrician...