Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollution era, agonistic Teddy Roosevelt would no doubt have Australian-crawled to the wooded island in the Potomac that now bears his name. Less energetic visitors these days can get there by boat or pedestrian causeway. Last week, on T.R.'s 109th birthday, his kin and his successor nine times removed walked to the park like ordinary tourists, there to dedicate a memorial to the 26th President...
Lyndon Johnson pulled the wraps from the 17-ft. bronze figure. The late Paul Manship sculpted Roosevelt in a typically animated posture, right hand flung skyward, feet planted solidly, frock coat flared, provocative words unmistakably on the lips. "I do not know what his response would be to the specific problems of our decade," said Johnson. "But we do know that it would not be the easy answer-if he believed the hard answer was the right one." Then Johnson quoted the Republican Roosevelt: "Woe to the country where a generation arises which shrinks from doing the rough work...
Robert D. Goldstein '69, who works with PBH's Roosevelt Towers Project, approached the executive committee at the beginning of the week and asked for volunteers to help campaign for the referendum...
...Washington's Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities and the exploding ghettos could develop into the biggest issue of all. Taken together, the problems are helping to build a formidable "anti" vote-the kind that helped Ike to defeat Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin Roosevelt to unseat Herbert Hoover...
Once again, "Iron-Pants" Johnson rides to Washington, once again the Byzantine intrigues of the Communists and of the non, near-and anti-Communists are uncoiled. One learns that Karl Marx had whiskers and that Roosevelt looked poorly in 1944, that Communists are devious and that-etc. It would tax the attention span of a U.N. stenographer...