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...President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister --Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel --Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer...
...odds with President Roosevelt and the interventionists, my father was branded a traitor, a Copperhead and even a Nazi. When he traveled to Germany to review German air power at the request of the American military attache in Berlin, he was given a medal by his Nazi hosts and later ignored public appeals to repudiate and return it. (He had in fact sent it to a museum, as he did other awards he received throughout his life.) Finally, and disastrously, my father made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1941, identifying as the three groups unwisely advocating U.S. entry...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, elected President in landslide...
...Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, both Crimson editors, Harvard had developed a reputation for breeding the future leaders of Eastern establishment. Its students were channeled into leadership positions in government, business and media...
Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40, both Crimson editors, Harvard had developed a reputation for breeding the future leaders of Eastern establishment. Its students were channeled into leadership positions in government, business and media...