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...Fame in America came to Mei-ling in a more serendipitous fashion. In late 1942, a painful skin disease brought her to a New York hospital. Upon her release, she was invited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, to stay at the White House for a week. Yet even as his guest was enthralling his nation, Roosevelt was wary of Mei-ling's formidable charm. One night at dinner, the President asked in passing how she would deal with a troublesome labor leader like John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Without missing a beat, Madame...
Ernest Hemingway called her the "Empress of China." British novelist Christopher Isherwood found her "possessed of an almost terrifying charm and poise." Among those impressed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's charms was the American politician Wendell Willkie, who lost the presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 but hoped to get the Republican nomination to run again in 1944. Visiting China's wartime capital of Chongqing in 1942, Willkie disappeared from an evening reception?as did Madame Chiang, who had then been married to Chiang Kai-shek for 15 years. According to the privately printed memoirs...
...Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to go abroad on business-to check the construction of his Panama Canal in 1906-but a 21st century leader is expected overseas on a regular basis. Last Thursday, George W. Bush, an unenthusiastic traveler, began his third trip to Asia, where memories of past presidential visits are vivid-and where the footsteps he follows are sometimes those of his old man. His stops...
Some of Harvard’s unclaimed Nobel recipients include Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, and Henry A. Kissinger ’50, who were both honored for their contributions to peace...
...Junior Bush is related to no fewer than 16 former Presidents, but the all time record holder is Franklin Delano Roosevelt who has ancestral connections to 17 presidents,” he says...