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...hundred years ago last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, was picked to be president of the 30th Guard of The Harvard Crimson. FDR was probably chosen for the Crimson presidency (after getting turned down by the Porcellian Club, by the way) in a smoke-filled room where a half-dozen prematurely crusty white men named Lowell, Cabot and Adams (and maybe one named Goldberg) drank sherry and flipped a silver dollar to pick the next leader of their getting-to-be-venerable organization before heading home to be “sucked foolish” (to quote...
...come to a standstill," says the 58-year-old author, who has also written several critical books about the Third Reich and the legal treatment of Nazi crimes in postwar Germany. "We also have to write history from the victims' point of view." Although Friedrich acknowledges that "Churchill and Roosevelt had no choice but to overcome the German threat through total war," he is quite aware that right-wing extremists might misconstrue parts of his book as morally equating Nazi and Allied guilt. But the ubiquity of those groups, he believes, is precisely the reason why Der Brand...
...west wing of the White House may be the most formidable power stage in the world. But when it was built 100 years ago, it was an architectural afterthought, completed under President Theodore Roosevelt for his temporary executive offices. William Taft added the Oval Office in 1909 (wags suggested it was fashioned in the image of the 300-lb. President). Temporary became permanent, and this strange, constantly evolving warren of work spaces became the incubator of our lofty national aspirations. Most of the great presidential ideas were conceived, debated and executed here. During John F. Kennedy's term, journalists...
Palfrey is himself a part of the Roosevelt family and has taken special interest in the FDR suite. Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, is Palfrey’s great-grandfather...
Palfrey owns a great deal of Roosevelt memorabilia...