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...spring of 1942, Radcliffe invited many public figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Joseph Kennedy, to speak about...
...United States, which had been vacillating between isolation and intervention, suddenly grew solidly united as President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and Congress declared war against the Axis powers...
...outside events brought the warnear. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had been scheduled tospeak on "Women: Nazi, Fascist and Democratic" tothe Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa, canceled her visitto Cambridge after the Pearl Harbor bombings...
...summer after our first year, several dozenundergraduates went off to Mississippi to registerBlack voters; one was arrested and briefly jailedon a capital offense. Classmates threw themselvesinto new PBH projects at Roosevelt towers andLyman School for Boys. In the wake of the Wattsriots, more than 500 students signed up for EdwardBanfield's course on urban politics...
...What about Harry Truman's comment after he took over as President when Roosevelt died, "I felt like the sun and the moon and the stars had all fallen on my shoulders"? As you are about to embark on this almost certain race for the White House, don't you worry at some times whether you too are worthy of bearing that weight...