Word: roosevelts
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Adolf Hitler and Franklin Roosevelt used radio to spread very different messages, proving that powerful new media have the potential for evil or for good. That is a lesson Prodigy Services is learning all over again. The home- computer network, which IBM and Sears jointly operate, offers electronic bulletin boards on which subscribers can exchange typewritten comments. Last week the Anti-Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration...
President Rudenstine is quoted as saying he supports a policy of non-discrimination. Suppose a drama group at Harvard is casting a play which calls for a white man to play the lead--possibly involving a Lincoln or a Roosevelt--and a Black man applies for the part. Is it discrimination to turn him down in order to maintain the integrity of the play? Maybe we should talk about fitness rather than discrimination. The Pentagon is concerned about the fitness and integrity of our officers...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once wrote that successful Presidents progressed only by defeating vociferous and protesting minorities. Franklin Roosevelt rode roughshod over entrenched minorities to create the New Deal. Harry Truman not only battled outside skeptics but also went against his own Secretary of State, George Marshall, in rushing to recognize the state of Israel in 1948. Political capital had to be expended...
...last time a sitting governor ran successfully for president was 1932. It was New York Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...made the mistake of trying to take over the FBI's domestic surveillance operations for his own shop. Long after Donovan's death in 1959, Hoover continued to tell people, falsely, that his old foe had succumbed to syphilis contracted from prostitutes during World War II orgies. Eleanor Roosevelt made Hoover's hate list for having accused him of trying to build an American gestapo. In revenge, the director spread rumors of her alleged love affairs with both men and women. Hoover persuaded comedian W.C. Fields to give him a set of obscene drawings of the President's wife, which...