Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMPLETE WAR MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940-1946). A moving chronicle of one man's fighting faith in France in his blackest hour. De Gaulle was grimly aware of the price of total commitment, and far more accurately than Roosevelt and Churchill, he gauged the realities of the postwar world...
...help my country, my children and me if Lyndon Johnson is elected President. He is the biggest threat to come along since Franklin Roosevelt...
...Details. What is the secret of Lyndon's ascendancy? Unlike Franklin Roosevelt-and certainly unlike Barry Goldwater-he does not polarize public opinion. Rather, he unpolarizes it. People neither love him nor loathe him. They simply stand in awe of his considerable talents-and, sometimes, in fear of his relentlessness in using those talents...
...more to Atlantic City, motored to the white stucco ocean-front villa that he and his family had taken over for the week from Hess Rosenbloom, brother of the owner of the Baltimore Colts. He entered Convention Hall after the eulogies of John F. Kennedy, Sam Rayburn and Eleanor Roosevelt had ended. As he sat down in the presidential box overlooking the speaker's rostrum, Lyndon was the absolute monarch of the place, and he looked it-hands on his knees, elbows akimbo, face impassive...
Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. borrowed .the biggest yacht in town-a 40-footer owned by New York Industrialist John Snyder-to throw a dockside luncheon. Junior later showed up at a cocktail buffet given by some Washington buddies who had, at $10 an hour, rented a donkey named Joey to liven things up. The President's Club, a collection of party faithful who have kicked in $1,000 or more to the campaign war chest, gave a beach clambake featuring 3,250 lobsters trucked down from Maine's Casco Bay the night before. While...