Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GEORGE C. MARSHALL: EDUCATION OF A GENERAL, 1880-1939, by Forrest C. Pogue, Ending with the general's appointment in 1939 as Roosevelt's chief of staff, this first volume of a three-volume biography seeks the hidden warmth in the man who baffled most by his icy reticence...
Under One Roof. Johnson also announced that responsibility for setting oil policies would revert to the Interior Department, where it lay during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. Under Eisenhower and Kennedy, the responsibility had been divided among the Commerce Department, the Federal Power Commission, the Office of Emergency Planning and the White House itself. Now the complicated job of determining import quotas will be done under a single roof. Johnson's motives were partly political: as an oil-state politician, he wanted to avoid possible charges of favoritism. All the same, the result was hailed by the Independent Petroleum...
...President conferred with Mann today. Officials said that he told Mann he wants him to take the best parts of the good-neighbor policy laid down by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Alliance for Progress launched by the late President kennedy, and use them as guidelines to eliminate poverty, illiteracy, and disease from the Western Hemisphere...
...passionate but somehow hapless tirades against the evils of Joe McCarthy. Never did he back away from an issue for purely political purposes. In 1949, on the eve of his first election to the Senate, he risked thousands of votes by denouncing Francis Cardinal Spellman for having criticized Eleanor Roosevelt. Spellman, angered at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to public aid to parochial schools, had said her "record of anti-Catholicism" was "unworthy of an American mother...
Retiring from the Senate in 1956, Lehman spent most of his remaining years trying to reform New York City's boss-ruled Democratic Party. With Eleanor Roosevelt's help, he succeeded in ousting Carmine De Sapio from the leadership of Tammany Hall...