Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Roosevelt's hundred days...
...spent years working and traveling through the land, and has written some of the most perceptive books about the Republic (The American Character, Government of the People) by any British author since Lord Bryce. In this discursive, diverting collection of essays, Brogan discusses the Civil War, Henry Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower. He is surprisingly tolerant of such institutions as the freeway, perhaps overgenerous in ascribing to U.S. foreign policy a kind of global Good Samaritanism. But Brogan also avuncularly warns that from Africa to Asia, "very imperfect solutions are all that can be hoped for, and the pursuit...
Churchill was one of the "Big Three" who directed the Allies' war efforts. He and President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941. Later Churchill met with other Allied leaders at Casablanca, Tehran, Quebec, and Yalta, and urged them to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to set up a United Nations Organization...
Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...
Friday, January 22 F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Roosevelt becomes a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination...