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...burden. To decrease East-West tensions further, Moscow and Washington have embarked on a series of unprecedented exchanges between their military leaders. Last month Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet Chief of Staff, peered into the cockpit of a B-1B bomber and visited the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt during a six-day American tour. Carlucci on his four-day trip planned to board a missile ship in the Black Sea and inspect the new Blackjack bomber...
...Delaware River estuary, an area ringed by heavy industry and home to almost 6 million people. The Delaware's pollution problems began in Benjamin Franklin's day. By World War II, the river had become so foul that airplane pilots could smell it at 5,000 ft. President Franklin Roosevelt even considered it a threat to national security. In 1941 he ordered an investigation to determine whether gases from the water were causing corrosion at a secret radar installation on the estuary...
...Mayor Richard Daley snarling read-my- lips obscenities in 1968 or Senator Edward Kennedy battling a sitting President to the last bitter moment in 1980, Democrats have settled their differences with the civility of the Hatfields and the McCoys. Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical Democratic manner. That is to say, the victors are full of uneasiness and the vanquished are full of bile...
...course, but not every one of them commands the interest of strangers. In these letters, Wharton does. And for the rest of the time, she is an incisive guide through the glories and vicissitudes of her own amazing life. She knew everyone, from Henry James, Bernard Berenson and Teddy Roosevelt to Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Kenneth Clark. She usually remained mute about her generosities with money and time, but the helpful annotating of Biographer Lewis and his wife Nancy fills in many gaps. She read extensively and exhaustively in a number of languages; in one letter she casually mentions...
...portrait of a city remarkably unprepared and unwilling to coordinate the war effort, Washington Goes to War is also a celebration of and a tribute to the men and women whose contributions to the war effort in Washington were invaluable. Chief among these, Brinkley implies, was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 himself...