Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Silber's defeat, said Roosevelt, the64-year old Texan has reinvigorated the party."John Silber attracted more than a million voters,especially voters who had not voted before, so hehas brought a new element to the DemocraticParty," he said...
...addition, the Navy said yesterday it was sending three aircraft carriers--the USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS America and USS Ranger--to the gulf area. That would increase to six the number of U.S. carriers there. The United States has 14 carriers, of which 12 are ready to be deployed...
...what began with Franklin D. Roosevelt's massive coalition of the poor, minorities and urban residents eventually gave the less advantaged in this country an institutionalized voice. A Democratic voice that--despite its faults--led to tremendous advances in civil rights, social services and environmental protection...
...soldiers and generals alike, blending English lords with plain Americans, reconciling and focusing the energies of haughty, contentious commanders such as Britain's Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and the U.S Third Army's General George Patton. Holding the trust of the grandiloquent politicians such as Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was just as challenging. It took all Ike had and four packs of Camels...
Cairncross's accuser is Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from the Soviet KGB in 1985 and is co-author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week...