Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roosevelt tackles the farm crisis in the winter...
...continued to be deeply involved in national affairs. During the first World War, Wilson brought him back to Washington, first as Counsel of the President's Mediation Commission and then as Chairman of the War Labor Policies Board. In the thirties, Frankfurter was a close adviser of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and when Roosevelt became President, Frankfurter supplied him with bright young Harvard Law men to help staff the alphabet soup of New Deal agencies...
...President Roosevelt appointed Frankfurter to the Supreme Court seat once held by Joseph Story. Story had taught at Harvard Law School while on the bench and Frankfurter too continued to be a teacher, although his formal connection with the school ended...
...exploited by the few against the interests of the many, nor do we intend to turn them over to any man who will wastefully use them by destruction and leave to those who come after us a heritage damaged by just so much." So spoke the conservationist President, Teddy Roosevelt. Last week, as his tenth successor addressed himself to the modern problems of natural resources, the situation had become more dramatic; what needs saving now is not just nature, but man himself...
National parks are still a major presidential concern; Johnson out-Teddied Roosevelt by proposing the establishment of twelve new national parks, totaling some 754,104 acres* to make "a Parks-for-America decade." He also noted that many thousands of the 28 million acres now used by the armed services would soon become surplus, and "much of the land has great potential for outdoor recreation, wildlife and conservation uses," to which end he had asked for an inventory from the Secretaries of Defense and Interior...