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...governor's race, Weld had $368,202 in cash on July 15, whereas Democrat Mark Roosevelt...
...August 15, 1934, nearly 19 years later, President Roosevelt ended the futile occupation, lest we forget...
Reading this book, it's possible to see Elliott as the archetypical Roosevelt. During Prohibition, two of Theodore's sons, Theodore Jr. and Kermit, helped found a club called "the Room" so they could booze in private. They dabbled in politics and traveled the globe trying, with ( disastrous results, to re-enact their father's adventures. Theodore Jr. did end up as a hero of the D-day landings, but Kermit's story was tragic: his heavy drinking persisted, and he eventually killed himself. The maliciously funny Alice Roosevelt Longworth was the real original of the group...
...Franklin and Eleanor's offspring might have become first-class boors even without famous parents. Elliott wanted to be a "big man" and ended as a hard-drinking Rotarian in Arizona. Franklin Jr. drank copiously, served in Congress and was a distributor of Fiat cars. Anna Roosevelt feuded bitterly with her mother; her husband deserted her and killed himself. Collier catalogs these events in a plodding, too decorous way, but his problem is basic: with the exception of Eleanor and the two great Presidents, these Roosevelts were an uninspired group who, in the end, weren't much of a dynasty...
...outsider. Maybe he understood that, as astronomer Michael Hart wrote, the moon landing would "be forever remembered as one of the greatest achievements of the human race." I think Kennedy, steeped in history, saw himself beside Thomas Jefferson sending Lewis and Clark to explore the West, and with Theodore Roosevelt building the Panama Canal...