Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign stump speech of 1968, the President assumed the stance that he now apparently plans to maintain until Election Day. In a 27-minute address to National Rural Electric Cooperative Association conventioners, Johnson reached back to his own political youth and the New Deal, draping the cape of Franklin Roosevelt over his own presidency by reciting the Administration's record on Medicare, education, the war on poverty, and social security benefits. The Great Society, said Johnson-invoking a term that has been notably missing from recent presidential pronouncements-is "taking root. It is thrusting up; it is reaching...
...bring clothes for cold and warm climates-and perhaps a pair of swimming trunks-but were warned not to tell anyone else. For his own safety, the President feels constrained to follow such hugger-mugger procedures, and he has told intimates that he in tends to emulate the Roosevelt campaign of 1944-when F.D.R., to conceal his failing health, eschewed most campaign trips and stayed at his White House desk, directing the administration of a nation...
...other. He makes me think of Bernadotte [the French marshal who became King Charles XIV of Sweden], a sergeant who's been crowned. An efficient man without any style. I rather like Johnson. He doesn't even take the trouble to pretend he's thinking. Roosevelt and Kennedy were masks over the real face of America. Johnson is the very portrait of America. He reveals the country to us as it is, rough and raw. If he didn't exist, we'd have to invent...
...basic blame, says Morse, belongs to "patriotic" organizations, which warned against the admission of "undesirable foreigners" to the U.S.; it belongs to Congress, which refused to relax immigration laws even to save doomed children, and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who feared that "the Jewish issue was a political liability." Above all, Morse blames the State Department, which refused for more than a decade after Hitler's rise to concede that he really was determined to annihilate Europe's Jews. Such an indictment by hindsight seems unduly harsh, particularly since so many Americans-and even so many European...
What Morse describes as "the long chain of apathy" at State was finally broken in late 1943, when Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. submitted an angry report to Franklin Roosevelt. The report charged the State Department with "utter failure to prevent the extermination of Europe's Jews," and strongly suggested that its inaction was either "deliberate" or due to the "incompetence" of certain officers. Roosevelt responded by establishing the independent War Refugee Board, which helped bring thousands of Jews to the U.S. from neutral countries-but only, says Morse, after "millions had perished...