Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. On the desk was a little oak plaque with three black buttons on it, to summon secretaries and stenographers. But whenever Harry Truman wanted a stenographer he would jump up, rush to the door and say, "Look, I want to dictate a few letters...
...average U.S. reaction of that day. Editorially, he plunged into it with all his fervor, calling it "the greatest revival the world has ever known since Christ came upon the earth." He won an Editor & Publisher award for a stirring editorial on Liberty Bonds, and received President Wilson's commendation for his patriotic stand...
Disillusion came to him, as to most Americans, and on March 4, 1920, he wrote of Woodrow Wilson: "He has toppled from his pedestal. His European interference has won him European hatreds and his American autocracy has cost him American friends. His erstwhile foreign wards stand appalled at his posture, and his erstwhile domestic followers wonder why they were so gullible twelve months ago. One year from today he will pass out of the White House and yield his misused authority to a successor. He must always be gratefully remembered for his magnificent spiritual leadership while we were...
...great Jan Christian Smuts ("We two Dutchmen got along splendidly," he had said of his first meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, at the Cairo Conference in November 1943) paid a simple, heartfelt tribute: "His passing leaves us very poor indeed. .. . ." People's Man. Not Lincoln as a legend, nor Wilson, beyond his brief hour of triumph, had been known so well to the plain people of the earth. They felt they had lost a friend, the American who to them was all that they wanted America to be, and they feared the times to come without...
...other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned them to "the Ananias Club" if the stories proved embarrassing. Wilson had shut off press conferences after war drew near. Harding, after an ill-fated attempt to be frank, would answer only questions submitted in writing. Coolidge dodged behind the anonymity of the "White House Spokesman" and Hoover ruled that all questions had to be submitted 24 hours in advance...