Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A critical evaluation of L.B.J. by men close to his four predecessors: Kennedy Biographer James MacGregor Burns, Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, Truman Economist Leon Keyserling, and Roosevelt Brain-Truster Thomas Corcoran...
Wanting to Know. De Gaulle recalled that he had met President Johnson briefly on just two occasions-in Paris when Johnson was Vice President elect, and at John Kennedy's funeral. "I knew Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy," he said, "and now I want to know President Johnson...
...political water. In 1936, as Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administrator, he was shocked by the island's economically ruinous population growth. Using federal funds, he established 14 "maternal welfare clinics." That August he returned to the U.S. for a visit-and found himself an issue in Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign, accused of being anti-Catholic. He soon got a call from Jim Farley, F.D.R.'s political general. "Gruening," growled Farley, "what in hell is going on in Puerto Rico? Whatever it is, stop it. It's hurting us in the campaign." Gruening hurried back to Puerto...
...because U.S. business has increased productivity faster than U.S. labor has pushed up wage costs-with the result that prices have held relatively stable. But even economic conservatives have lately accepted the idea of using deficits to stimulate the economy in slack years. Sighs Virginia Senator Harry Byrd: "Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a platform that pledged to cut governmental expenditures by 25%. Nobody would dare run on such a platform today...
...Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell. Other New Yorkers recall Franklin's five years in Congress, where his absenteeism was to become a campaign issue in 1954. Republican Jacob Javits flattened him in their contest for state attorney general, which prompted Columnist Murray Kempton to write last week: "Roosevelt and his sponsors must hope that enough people remember his father and mother, and have forgotten him." Paul Screvane was much milder. Said he of Frank Jr.: "He is a very decent fellow, but I don't know how much he knows about the city of New York...