Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House has never been much of a home to the transients who occupy it, even though Andy Jackson added spittoons and Teddy Roosevelt put moose heads on the dining-room walls. But Jackie Kennedy has done a masterly job of making the White House a source of national pride, and her handiwork is shown in six pages of color...
...onetime dean of Harvard Law School, as a member of the Federal Trade Commission under Franklin Roosevelt, and as a crusadingly liberal public servant under two other Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis was known as an unyielding champion of integrity in law and government. But last month (TIME, Aug. 9) Landis appeared in a Manhattan Federal Court to plead guilty on charges of failing to file federal income-tax returns on $360,000, which he earned from 1956 to 1960. It was not, he insisted, that he had intended to be a tax cheater. It was just that...
Lippmann accused Goldwater of viewing the Federal government as "a kind of foreign power which must be reduced and distrusted." Goldwater's brand of Republicanism is contrary to that of the "greatest" Republicans, Hamilton, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, who "stood for a strong and evolving Federal power, not for a loose and impotent federation of states." As a man of "radically reactionary" views, Goldwater as presidential nominee would turn his party to a shambles. Throughout his critique, Lippmann's emphasis was on Goldwater's extremism...
...Roosevelt's Attorney General Homer Cummings failed to include lynching on the agenda of a national conference on crime. But as the N.A.A.C.P. had already discovered, and as Wilkins soon learned, the overt physical demonstration is not necessarily the most effective way to achieve Negro aims...
Wolfe, were he alive, might well say the same of Minority Report. Not only does Rice exhibit an astonishingly tin ear for dialogue; his autobiographical e frequently reads like a parody of all the memoirs ever written. "We had what is now known as a cookout, with Mrs. Roosevelt, in a bungalow apron toasting the frankfurters over a charcoal grill. When her son Elliott shouted 'Hey, Ma, we're all out of beer!' she replied sharply, 'You know there's always enough beer! Just look around for it!' It was a domestic scene that...