Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those were the Roosevelt years. Classmates were divided on the issues. On the one hand, Lend Lease and Bundles for Britain, on the other America First. Then, a few months into our junior year, came December 7, "the day that shall live in infamy," and everything changed...
Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14 was a respected president, but not extremely visible at Harvard. A chemist, he spent much of his time advising President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 on scientific issues. Whiteside, who became acquainted with Conant as a graduate student, said he was "indescribably remote" during Whiteside's undergraduate years...
...since Franklin Roosevelt has a President so boldly provoked and challenged the nation's financial and economic elites." -- political analyst Kevin Phillips, on Clinton's Feb. 18 economic address...
...young Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, gun blazing, moving toward Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. The Senator lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the crowded hotel pantry. His ex-officio bodyguards, Olympic hero Rafer Johnson and former football star Roosevelt Grier, grabbing Sirhan. Shock -- and then grief for another American hero senselessly dead before his time...
...alone. Comprehensive mental-health care is among the medical benefits that President Clinton is thinking about guaranteeing to all Americans. Its chief advocate: Tipper Gore, who heads the mental-health section of the White House task force. During a recent evening session in the Roosevelt Room, Clinton discussed the issue with Mrs. Gore, the Vice President, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and members of the mental-health working group. Joining the 90-minute briefing, Clinton questioned the advisers and listened closely as Mrs. Gore explained how many severely disabled Americans are going without help. "I know," said the President, telling...