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...want this clear now... When I look at this great country, and let me say that at least 98.5 percent of this country is great and that's a real figure. . . I feel that it is the interests of this country in a great democracy ...and what Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said is applicable here, that "everyone should do their best in this" ... that we will off work together towards our common goal of making America great and it's just going to take time, that's all'...next...
This year's president of Philips Brooks House, MacLeod says he lives in a tenement building next to Roosevelt Park, one of the three low-income housing projects that are part of the program...
...selection of a U.S. President is not unusual. Starting with Franklin Roosevelt, TIME'S sixth Man of the Year, every President except Gerald Ford has been designated, most often as President-elect, since almost by definition anyone who enters and wins a U.S. presidential election dominates the year's news. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt were all chosen in their election years; Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Harry Truman in 1948 were both Presidents and Presidents-elect, since they had succeeded to the office through their predecessors' deaths. Johnson was named twice (again...
...Washington had a consul, chargé d'affaires or "minister resident" to the Papal States from 1797 to 1867, when, with the impending collapse of the Pope's regime, the U.S. legation was closed down. There matters stood until two days before Christmas, 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed his personal representative to the Holy See. (By not sending an ambassador, F.D.R. avoided Senate confirmation and the inevitable Protestant uproar.) There was no regular diplomatic contact following President Truman's debacle of 1951 until 1970, when President Nixon restored the post of personal representative, which...
...survey, as in the Schlesinger ratings, Lincoln was voted our best President. F.D.R. moved to second place, and Washington fell to third. Also rated as great: Jefferson, who supplanted Wilson in the top four. Rated as near great: Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Polk, Kennedy, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Cleveland. Average: McKinley, Taft, Van Buren, Hoover, Hayes, Arthur, Ford...