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...soldiers and generals alike, blending English lords with plain Americans, reconciling and focusing the energies of haughty, contentious commanders such as Britain's Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and the U.S Third Army's General George Patton. Holding the trust of the grandiloquent politicians such as Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was just as challenging. It took all Ike had and four packs of Camels...
Cairncross's accuser is Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from the Soviet KGB in 1985 and is co-author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week...
Long had a similar effect on policy during the New Deal. According to scholars such as Alan Brinkley, Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Second New Deal" in 1935 was partly the result of growing pressure from the left, including the growing popularity of Huey Long. Described as a "turn to the left," this series of legislative actions included such landmark bills as the "Soak the Rich" tax bill and the Social Security...
...statement appeared on the front page as an extension of the Review's usual credo--authored by Theodore Roosevelt. Editors said the statement had "slipped in" without their knowledge...
...speech rife with references to prominent Americans from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Kemp said that the Republicans best represent the interests of Massachusetts voters today...