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With around forty undergraduates, graduate students and guests—including Morris’ wife—in attendance in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, Morris discussed his current book Theodore Rex, its prequel, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, and Dutch, his controversial biography of Ronald Reagan...
Morris noted similarities between the current political situation and the atmosphere surrounding Roosevelt’s ascension to the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley. He said that Roosevelt, Class of 1880, had to reassure American institutions they were indestructible following the assassination...
During the Second World War, Snyder served in the Army Medical Corps and helped develop new treatments for typhus. He was appointed to the U.S. Typhus Commission by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and during the course of his work contracted the disease...
Despite increases in defense and security spending, President Bush’s budget reins in domestic expenditures. President Franklin Roosevelt, Class of 1904, showed us that this is a prudent course in a time of war. Between 1942 and 1944, non-war spending was cut more than 20 percent. President Truman went further, reducing non-defense spending 28 percent in one year during the Korean War. Without the need for full mobilization, non-war and non-security expenditures will increase next year, though only at a modest 2 percent. The dismal fiscal and economic environment that followed the Vietnam...
...movie. Actor Jeffrey Wright closely observed Bingham, who was on hand to take pictures and help safeguard historical accuracy. Jamie Foxx studied tapes of Ali's late, drug-addled corner man Drew (Bundini) Brown. Jon Voight, who last summer hid himself under layers of prosthetics as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor, again endured hours each day in the makeup chair, this time disguising himself as Howard Cosell. The witty verbal sparring between Ali and Cosell provides some of the movie's most entertaining moments. "If you talk to Ali today," says Voight, "the first thing that will happen...