Word: roosevelts
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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...
...name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted them both by years...
...fortune in Alabama cotton and had ardently supported the Confederacy, Lehman was a senior partner in the family's New York banking firm (Lehman Bros.) and was worth some $25 million before he belatedly got into elective politics at the age of 50. His guiding light was Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he worked as an aide in the Navy Department during World War I. In 1928, when Smith ran for President and Roosevelt for Governor of New York, F.D.R. persuaded Lehman to try for Lieutenant Governor, mostly on the grounds that a Jewish liberal could hardly help but strengthen...
...Little New Deal." While Smith was defeated, Roosevelt and Lehman won. After that, no New York politician ever won as many statewide elections as Lehman. He won twice for Lieutenant Governor, four times for Governor, and twice for U.S. Senator. Succeeding Roosevelt as Governor in 1933, Lehman pushed through such social welfare legislation as old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, public housing, earned his administration a nickname as the "little New Deal." He inherited a budget deficit of $106 million, converted it to a surplus of $80 million in ten years...
...colleague once called Herbert Lehman "the conscience of America." Always a liberal, he fought as Roosevelt's "right arm" for the New Deal, was among the first to challenge the activities of Joseph McCarthy, and while in his eighties, brought some measure of reform to New York's Democratic party...