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 its blackest hour. Le Grand Charles, as the '60s think of him, 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...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, of course, all but made the role of First Lady an official national office. Harry Truman called Bess "the boss"-and in many ways she was, though she never pretended to be more than a displaced housewife. Once Truman found her burning some of the letters he had written to her. "Bess, you oughtn't to do that," protested Harry. "Why not? I've read them several times," said Bess. "But think of history!" pleaded the President. "I have," murmured Bess as she tossed the last bundle into the fire. Mamie Eisenhower, always the general...
...Jove! Mr. Johnson is quickly becoming the Teddy Roosevelt of the '60s. Both men display a somewhat vibrant personality, and Lyndon used the "big stick" in Southeast Asia much the same as Teddy used it in Panama. Let's hope Lyndon doesn't contract yellow fever...
...Fact of Life. Both Goldwater and Miller were reflecting a long-simmering feeling in professional Republican ranks that the working press is biased against the G.O.P. - a kind of inversion of the old "one-party press" complaint that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman used to make against Republican publishers. It is a feeling that surfaced during Richard Nixon's presidential campaign and exploded after his run for the California governorship. It was dramatically reflected in the uproar in the San Francisco Cow Palace last month when Dwight Eisenhower jabbed at "sensation-seeking columnists and commentators...
...practicality, Roche does not advocate real politics alone: "Those who put their faith in Machiavelli all too often forget that the Florentine died both broke and out of office." One of the most moving chapters of his long book is devoted to the late Frank Murphy, Roosevelt's Attorney General and later a Supreme Court Justice, whom liberals and conservatives alike dismissed as a hopeless ideologue. In the starry-eyed pursuit of his principles, Murphy occasionally forgot about the real world he was living in. While admitting that Murphy was a "ritualistic liberal" and a "utopian pilgrim," Roche makes...