Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he died. He was our candidate--the first national figure whose emergence we could watch and whose victory we could celebrate as our own. Only once in a lifetime is it possible to feel that first tremendous excitement, to give oneself completely--as another generation gave itself to Roosevelt, perhaps-- to a figure as remote as the President of the United States...
Price arranged for a 42-room headquarters suite in the Hotel Roosevelt, rented 117 neighborhood store-front offices throughout the city, organized some 30,000 fresh-faced young volunteers to staff telephones and ring doorbells. They were an exuberant, collegiate-looking gang, some of them Jewish youngsters whose yarmulkes at his rallies blended exotically with the brightly ribboned straw boaters of the "Lindsay Girls...
...help the "amiable bookkeeper," as Jacob Javits called Beame, Hubert Humphrey contributed kind words and one full day's campaigning. Bobby Kennedy turned up in New York now and then, sardonically informed one gathering that the Democrats are "the party of Roosevelt, Truman, John F. Kennedy . . . and Huey Long...
...Eleanor Roosevelt Story. "What we have to recall for ourselves," said Adlai Stevenson at her graveside, "is what she was herself. And who can name it?" This intimate, uncritical documentary is an effort to do so in film and in the feelingly written words of Archibald MacLeish, as narrated...
MacLeish, Eric Sevareid, and Eleanor Roosevelt's first cousin and childhood friend, Mrs. Francis Cole...