Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Rot. Though the "Morgenthau Plan" brought him his greatest notoriety, Henry Morgenthau Jr. was an epicenter of argument long before the German controversy arose. A wealthy Jewish apple farmer from New York's sylvan Dutchess County, he was among the first of Franklin Roosevelt's braintrusters, having gone to Washington in 1933 to administer the wrenching fiscal reforms of the New Deal. Those beginnings and the battles during which Morgenthau frequently and deliberately drew the fire of outraged bankers and businessmen to save...
...press. Goebbels began exhorting the Reich to fight even harder in the face of defeat, since Germans had nothing to lose by death; Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey claimed that Morgenthau's plan had given Hitler as much of a boost as "ten fresh German divisions." Roosevelt, who at one point had mused that it might be good to return Germany to the homespun-wool economy of Dutchess County in 1810, backed warily away from both the plan and its author. F.D.R. nonetheless adhered to his policy of "unconditional surrender," which pleased Morgenthau mightily. But the stigma...
...seem odd to put the cold war on a par with the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. Where was its Jena, its Marne or its Stalingrad? But Louis Halle, a longtime State Department adviser under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower, and lately a professor of international studies in Geneva, contends in this cool, dispassionate study that the cold war was every bit as climactic and dramatic a power struggle as those bloody predecessors. What's more, says Halle, the cold war is over, though the conditions of conflict that bred it continue...
...same, she is no beauty, largely because of her mouth-or rather, the buck teeth that make her look like a young Eleanor Roosevelt. "I smile with my hand over my mouth," she explains, "so no one will see the spinach." Her figure, in the simile of one friend, "is like a cup of tea-all the sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into...
...Lyndon Johnson would be the first to recognize how different the political v. military balance is in this war. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman worried about such grand maneuvers as the march to the sea, the invasion of France and the evacuation from Changjin Reservoir. Truman, in his decision not to bomb Red China, came the closest to exercising civilian authority in a framework of limited war. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, worried about whether he should allow the Air Force to bomb a power plant in Hanoi that stood a scant li miles from...