Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson has no illusions about his ability to reshape and reform U.S. life in four years. Although he was an admirer and a protege of Franklin Roosevelt, he still disparages the zealous young New Dealers who sought sweeping national changes overnight. And one of F.D.R.'s few faults, Johnson believes, was his habit of playing various elements of U.S. society against each other. Johnson seeks accommodation, not conflict...
Congressman James Roosevelt, 57, last week decided to take on a tartar. He announced his candidacy against Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty in next April's municipal primary.* Said Roosevelt in a gibe at Yorty's notable irascibility: "Los Angeles must not be subjected to government by tantrum...
Hardly had the November election ballots been counted before Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman began crowing. "Not since the Roosevelt landslide of 1936 has a Democratic candidate received such an overwhelming endorsement in rural America!" he cried. Farm-state votes, Freeman said, gave Lyndon Johnson a "mandate" for continuation of the Kennedy-Johnson farm policies...
...Curo. Reisner spent nearly all his adult life in Egypt as director of expeditions sponsored by Harvard, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Egyptian government. Photographs show him as a portly figure with wire-rimmed glasses and a bristling mustache; he looks strikingly like Theodore Roosevelt. To his co-workers, it is said, he was known as "Papa George...
...another businessman-turned-politician, and he eagerly seconded Chamberlain's appeasement policies. Believing that all the world's ills could be solved by clever horse trades, Kennedy urged making a deal with Hitler, and he applauded the Munich capitulation. Determined to intervene on the side of Britain, Roosevelt eventually gave up on his pessimistic ambassador, who was so convinced of Nazi victory that he even objected to Americans' enlisting in the British armed forces-on the grounds that Hitler might retaliate by shooting all U.S. citizens when he occupied London. By the time he resigned...