Word: roosevelted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remember the '64 convention," said Frances Humphrey Howard, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt during the war. "Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, was the staff director of the National Women's Political Caucus during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. "Remember our so-called headquarters hotel? The cockroaches were big enough to steal the typewriters. I remember crying when Shirley Chisholm was nominated for President...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal brought new political opportunities for women, partly because innovation suited the spirit of the 1930s, partly because Eleanor Roosevelt was a highly active First Lady, partly because Mary Dewson of the Democrats' women's division organized upwards of 60,000 female precinct workers to get out the female vote. Roosevelt appointed the first woman to the Cabinet (Labor Secretary Frances Perkins), the first female federal appeals court judge, the first female minister to a foreign country. Still, even in 1940,16 states still said a wife could not sign a contract...
...Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, Reagan signed the 14th annual report of the Council on Environmental Quality, paying tribute to an agency that his Administration had tried to cut from the budget. In a speech before some 20,000 members of the National Campers and Hikers Association, Reagan pledged to "take all necessary steps to protect the American people against the menace of hazardous wastes." All the while, he was dogged by questions about his recent appointment of Anne Burford to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Burford was forced to resign as head of the Environmental...
What Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to offer was hope: hope of an end to the breadlines and dust bowls of the Great Depression, hope of prosperity...
...From Roosevelt to Reagan, he touches on some personal experience with each president pausing only to drop a few more names along the way Johnson, he writes, was once invited to lunch at the Times...