Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy. He often arises in the small hours of the morning to check the White House situation room for cables about rescue operations and about troop casualty lists from Saigon. He stalks through the White House corridors, longingly paraphrasing to aides the World War II order that Franklin Roosevelt gave to General Eisenhower: "Seek out the German army and destroy it." He seems to be saying: If only Viet Nam were that simple...
...broke off to say: "This is the most productive and most historic legislative week in Washington this century." He ticked off the congressional achievements, not only of the week but of the year (see box). No President has ever done better-not even Lyndon's hero, Franklin Roosevelt, during the fabled "hundred days." Indeed, many of his programs are actually fulfilling some of the New Deal ideas that were generated 30 years ago and have been gathering dust on the legislative shelf ever since...
...heady early days of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, two young Southern liberals came together in Washington and discovered the first bond of friendship. One went on to carve out a brilliant career in politics; the other rose to the top of the legal profession and successfully argued two landmark cases in U.S, criminal...
...District Judge Herbert Christenberry, 67, was born and bred in New Orleans, is an old Huey Long man, was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana by Frank lin Roosevelt in 1942, and was appointed to his present judicial post by Harry Truman in 1947. He is a tough old bird, and he has not been notable for taking any guff from anyone...
...Going Home": Roosevelt's death at Warm Springs, Ga., on April 12, 1945, with reminiscences by Elliott Roosevelt, Anna Roosevelt, Laura Delano and Henry A. Wallace...