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...camp provides educational, cultural, and recreational activities during the summer for 100 children from the Jefferson Park, Roosevelt Towers, and Newtown Court housing projects...
...long as men and women engage in politics there will be rumors of sexual misconduct. Should the press scrutinize them as it did the Hart scandle, or should the press, as it did when confronted with rumors about Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, discretely divert its eyes...
...most important journey ever made to Washington by a Japanese Prime Minister." As he jetted toward Washington, the Prime Minister read a book about Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Japan's pre-World War II leader. At one point he put the book down and mused out loud that a Konoe- Roosevelt summit might have prevented the Pacific...
...Felix Frankfurter came to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1939, he had fought monopolies, defended striking workers, taught law at Harvard University, and written frequently for the New Republic. So maybe it was sheer momentum that kept him dabbling in public affairs from the bench. He remained one of Roosevelt's closest policy advisers, even though doing so offended the monastic ideal that judges must be "less worldly than others in order to be more judicial" -- as Frankfurter once...
...simpler times Franklin Roosevelt was fond of the notion of a White House staff with a "passion for anonymity." But in the postwar era the President's palace guard has wielded far too much power to remain shrouded in obscurity. The character and competence of an Administration is often shaped by those who command offices in the West Wing of the White House. Such has been particularly the case with Ronald Reagan. In his first term, the fractious troika of James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver exposed the often passive President to a wide diversity of opinion. In contrast...