Word: rooseveltism
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...eighth grade, when the school held a father-son night, John's companion was Roosevelt Grier, the former football star who in 1968 had tackled Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan. But John would not talk about his dead father and uncle; classmates recall only one history class in his Collegiate career when John mentioned the President. If you didn't know who he was, you'd take him for a typical '70s teenager, face obscured by a helmet of longish brown hair, heading to Central Park with his friends to throw a Frisbee or play with a pack...
...ELEANOR] This Is My Story, On My Own and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, among others...
Hillary Clinton's planned race for the Senate demonstrates that First Ladies can have a political afterlife. A new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt got us wondering: Which of the current candidates' spouses has the most in common with the first among First Ladies...
ELEANOR Niece of Theodore Roosevelt...
When Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged last week in her new guise as Senate candidate, she stood in a beautiful pasture, basking in the glow of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for the moment channeling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm rather than Eleanor Roosevelt. Meanwhile, her likely opponent for Moynihan's seat, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was striding the gritty streets of Manhattan in the middle of New York City's worst blackout since 1977, looking, if not senatorial, like a take-charge Man of the People...