Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When John Kennedy named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to be Under Secretary of Commerce early in March 1963, he had every intention of boosting him eventually into the No. 1 spot at Commerce, then held by Luther Hodges. To give Roosevelt some show case exposure before the promotion, Kennedy sent him into Appalachia with orders to find a prescription for poverty there. But a year later, when Roosevelt submitted his 93-page report. Lyndon Johnson was in the White House...
Entering soon after on a new has in her career, she became a member of the New York state Industrial Board and in 1929 Franklin Roosevelt's state Industrial Commissioner. In 1933 Roosevelt appointed her the New Deal's Secretary of labor, a post which she held until his death. Although she was the first woman in the Cabinet, she wore this honor with the same nonchalance as she did the tricorne hat that became her symbol...
...year later France, under U.S. pressure, began pulling its troops out of Mexico, leaving Maximilian to die before a Mexican firing squad. In 1903, after Germany, Britain and Italy decreed a blockade of Venezuela to force the dictator of the day to pay claims due their citizens, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the Europeans away with a threat of intervention by the U.S. fleet...
...Wrongdoing or Impotence." A year later, T.R. enunciated his "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine Bluntly, Teddy declared: "Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States however reluctantly ... to the exercise of an international police power " Teddy's was the Big Stick. In 1903 after the U.S. had kicked the Spaniards out of Cuba and supported Panama...
...Organization. In 1933, announcing that the U.S. wanted to be a "good neighbor," President Franklin Roosevelt vowed that "the definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed intervention." But during World War II, Roosevelt himself had to move urgently into Latin American internal affairs with economic, diplomatic and military pressure to counter Axis influence...