Word: roosevelted
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...members would rather reminisce about the social ups and downs of the club's history than its business affairs. "I remember when Mrs. Roosevelt spoke here. She absolutely charmed everyone, even the Republicans in the audience." Mittell says, "She was introduced by one of the members singing a song from the [Hasty] Pudding show that went 'Eleanor's here, Eleanor's there, Eleanor's everywhere!'" he recalls...
...July of 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt decided that war was inevitable, and he asked his Secretaries of War and Navy, Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, for a strategic plan to defeat potential enemies. They sent the assignment to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who called in Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, chief of war plans. Gerow turned to the best-qualified, brightest man he could find, a 44-year-old infantry major named Albert Wedemeyer...
Just like "Pug" Henry, the fictional naval officer in Herman Wouk's The Winds of War, Al Wedemeyer secretly met at 10 Downing Street with Churchill and in the White House with Roosevelt. Wedemeyer felt Roosevelt's demand for unconditional surrender in 1943 was a grave error, compelling Germany, which might have turned against Hitler, to fight to the bitter end. Wedemeyer's closest friend from the Kriegsakademie was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who planted the bomb that nearly killed Hitler...
...choice may sometimes be perverse. Abraham Lincoln rather liked Dixie. Someone decided that poor Franklin Roosevelt loved Home on the Range, so he was condemned to sit through the tune scores of times...
...boys were taken to court and tried for the crime of rape. Fuzzy was kept in a wire cage during the trial, at which the two were found guilty. They were imprisoned for two years, until their lawyer, Conrad Lynn, could persuade Eleanor Roosevelt to personally arrange an intervention by President Eisenhower...