Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abandoning his business career at 50, Lehman devoted the remainder of his life to public service. Always a supporter of liberal causes, he entered polities in 1923 as Roosevelt's lieuteant Governor and succeeded him as Governor in 1932. Roosevelt referred to him as "my good right arm." In 1942 he became director of the State Department's foreign relief and rehabilitation operations, then United Nations' relief administrator, and in 1949 he was elected to the United States Senate. There held the fight against Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...most dramatic part of his career came after his retirement from the Senate in 1957, when he and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spearheaded the drive 'to reform New York's Democratic Party. In 1961, at the age of 33, he campaigned actively against Carmine DeSapio and the other party bossed, speaking from sound trucks and touring the city on foot in the middle of a hot summer. Even after achieving victory, he continued to guide New York's reform movement and act as the state's political conscience until his death...
...idea, that was only because of the current of apprehension that rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when...
...laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...stickler for detail, which sometimes made him seem petty. He was cautious about social entanglements, which made him seem cold. Despite five years as President Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Marshall politely rebuffed F.D.R.'s attempts to be amiable, visited Hyde Park for the first time to attend Roosevelt's funeral. Even his kindness and humor were touched with irony. After a gracious hospital visit to the daughter of a friend, he wrote: "I round your company of fish, turtles and guppies quite fascinating-much more attractive than the average group I meet socially...