Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, August 27 FDR (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The Eagle and the Bear, a review of U.S. relations with Russia from 1933 to the Roosevelt-Stalin meeting at Yalta. Repeat...
...most severe scholarly criticism came from a fellow chronicler of Presidents, Political Scientist Sidney Hyman, who did much of the research for Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, an intimate book about another President, based on his aide's notes and published after both were dead. To Hyman, Schlesinger's use of "the casual chitchat of a dead man" was "the height of historical irresponsibility." Said he: "A husband and wife can quarrel like cats and dogs and then make love and forget it. To build the incident into a historical thesis is unrealistic...
...billion housing bill, Johnson recalled, for an audience in the Rose Garden, that he grew up in a house without lights, water, or floor covering. "This legislation," he said, "represents the single most important breakthrough in the last 40 years," and "will take us many long strides" toward Franklin Roosevelt's dream of "a decent and dignified home" for every family. Johnson capped the week with a bipartisan signin' and speakin', this time approving a bill to create a national historical site in memory of Herbert Hoover at West Branch, Iowa, where Hoover was born...
...Mailer's existentialism is in fact not too far from the old notion of "expressive politics" which the New Republic implicitly championed for years: commitment for the sake of commitment, action for its internal, rather than external consequences. One could have seen Mailer as a grudging admirer of Teddy Roosevelt...
Though no historians seem to have recorded the event, Mrs. Dixon told Ruth Montgomery that Franklin Roosevelt invited her to the White House in the last year of his life. She donned a black suit with buttons shaped like crystal balls and took a full-size crystal ball with her. First, the President wanted to know how long he would live. The seer touched his fingertips for the vibrations and minced no words: "Six months or less." "Will we remain allies with Russia?" a concerned F.D.R. wanted to know. "The visions show otherwise," she replied. On a second visit...