Word: roosevelted
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...work their way up to the presidency have been around for a while in one form or another. A lot of the nostrums for the Depression, for instance, were debated in the days of Herbert Hoover. But the man who got serious about them and acted on them, Franklin Roosevelt, became known as the New Thinker. John Kennedy did not dream up the Peace Corps. He swiped the idea from Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who, of course, borrowed it from church dusted-off, replated New Deal...
They were grappling with a difficult problem, the most difficult faced by men trying to establish the authority of a new President since the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Neither F.D.R. in 1932, when Republicans controlled the press, nor Ronald Reagan in 1980, when liberal Democrats were the rule among journalists, had very many friends and sympathizers in the established press. How, in the face of a reflexive ideological hostility-not to say bigotry-toward Reagan and all that he stood for, were the President's men to get fair, even favorable coverage of his Administration...
...final offer: a 7.5% Pentagon increase next year. "We're all supposed to be leaders," he told his G.O.P. comrades, among them Majority Leader Howard Baker. "This is a time for leaders to lead." At Baker's suggestion, the Senators held a 20-minute caucus in the Roosevelt Room. "Mr. President," said Baker when they returned, "we've got an agreement...
...White was not entirely unsympathetic to intellectual radicalism. When Roosevelt was trying to pack the Supreme Court (an attempt White opposed), White observed that...
...Trendy discards individuality and even personal comfort in an effort to identify with the celebrated. President Theodore Roosevelt '04 once wrote to his sister from his ranch in the Dakotas...