Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enduring magic of Franklin Roosevelt was so strong that one day in the White House Lyndon Johnson stopped by an F.D.R. bust and cradled the bronze chin in his big palm. "Look at that strength," he said to his companion. Then he stroked the Roosevelt face in tribute, his mind reaching back to when he was a young Texas Congressman, watching in awe as F.D.R. steadied the nation in depression and commanded it in war. After nearly 50 years of trying, the U.S. at last seems ready to complete a major Roosevelt memorial in Washington. Or maybe...
...marble and bronze in momentous proportions, a project that has been frustrated ever since F.D.R.'s death on April 12, 1945. In 1969 L.B.J. designated 27 acres along Cherry Tree Walk in the Tidal Basin-between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials-as a park for a Roosevelt monument. One earlier design had been ridiculed as "instant Stonehenge" and dumped in 1960. Two other attempts also faltered...
...likely beneficiary of Weld's decision notto run is Harvard Law School, where his wife,Susan Roosevelt Weld, will remain as a researchfellow in the East Asian Legal Studies division...
...four days out of any seven) a convincing bohemian, a smothered son who remained boyish all his short life, and an invalid who lived a life of arduous travel and physical adventure. (Another frail, literary, boyish adventurer of the time comes to mind, and though R.L.S. and Theodore Roosevelt seem never to have met, they probably would have enjoyed each other's company...
...good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"), he always acted generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just got used to it. I know this sounds odiously modest, but I don't think it needed much goodness. It's more laziness. Just as you can do harm by being lazy, you can do some good as well...