Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at these young men and women dressed in T-shirts, sweaters, and jeans, and wonder which one I will first encounter in a three-piece suit or its female equivalent," he writes. "Is one of them a future Franklin [D.] Roosevelt ['04], Cap Weinberger ['38], or Anthony Lewis...
What follows, as is proper with such a tale, is as traditional as Kabuki drama. There are arrogant Spaniards who need shooting and a 20-year-old American beauty named Amelia, a professional mistress, who needs career counseling. But Theodore Roosevelt, it should be said, does not make an appearance--a sign of restraint that justifies the author's high reputation...
...significant event or situation from the middle 1930s to the early '90s that is not the direct or indirect result of, or is not in some way related to, his personal decisions. But for Hitler's war and its sequel, all the others--surely Churchill, undoubtedly De Gaulle, probably Roosevelt and maybe Stalin--would have remained local phenomena, or would not even have emerged. GEORGE RIEGL Nantes, France...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1941 Leading America into the war against the Axis...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1934 Basking in popular--and electoral--approval...