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...instance, Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, kept a small zoo in his room consisting of lobsters, snakes and a huge tortoise...
President Clinton is of no known royal ancestry. Even if his claim of a descent from Robert I of France were true, in 1992 he beat George Bush, whose known royal ancestry is much more prominent than Mr. Clinton's. In fact, in this century, only Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1888, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Bush were of royal ancestry and elected to the presidency. That means 10 presidents of the 20th century were not of royal ancestry including Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy '40 and Ronald...
...candidate is "a highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs." That was Walter Lippmann in 1932 talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...nasty marriage to Winston Churchill's dissolute son Randolph, Pam Churchill went on to form lucrative unions and strategic dalliances on both sides of the Atlantic. Her second husband was Broadway producer Leland Hayward, who died in 1971. She then married the aged Averell Harriman--Wall Street heir, Roosevelt New Dealer, diplomat and former Governor of New York. He had been her munificent lover in Britain during World War II. Other beaux of that exciting time and place included John Hay Whitney, Edward R. Murrow and his boss, CBS founder William Paley, who later crowned the red-haired beauty...
...department comprised the intellectual force behind the New Deal programs advanced by former president Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. And Bush-Quayle campaign officials complained in 1992 that Harvard was "a hotbed of liberalism...