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… party of a great President who knew how to get reelected—Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And we are the party of a courageous fighter who … and proud and united. And we have a memory of Franklin Roosevelt, 40 years ago, when he said that there are …
Presidential Biographies
… top of the list stood Abraham Lincoln. He was followed by Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, …
Presidential Recordings
… Harry s. Truman -Chicago Tribune article attacking Franklin D. Roosevelt -McGovern’s attacks -Tone -Press view -McGovern … -Administration -Comparison to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 campaign Schedule -Forthcoming meeting with …
Presidential Recordings
… Solomon, George P. Shultz, William L. Safire, Barbara H. Franklin and Judge Paul McArdle entered at an unknown time … Nixon Eisenhower -Paintings -White House -Wings -Theodore Roosevelt -Tree -Peking Pandas -Washington National Zoo …
Presidential Recordings
… opponents’ views -Carroll Kilpatrick’s column -Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Hoopes [?] of the New York Times …
Public Events
… in it, from Washington to Jackson to Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt, expanded the powers of the president to … the drivers. Suri: In many ways, this is—this is Roosevelt’s legacy. Uh, he’s the hero of my book, but he’s …
Presidential Biographies
… on October 20, 1964. Immediately after the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover retreated to his home in Palo Alto, … essays, condemning many of its programs as "fascistic." Roosevelt's decisions to abandon the gold standard, to …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… to call all 67 of them and ask, Who are you for? and we’d run that against what the two candidates had told us. We … President because he was very active in promoting the [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt bills of the first term. Vice Presidents normally …
Presidential Biographies
… his passing came just before the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt and the start of both a new view of …
Presidential Recordings
… (Vendroux) de Gaulle’s influence on policy -[Anna] Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt -President’s wartime experience -E. Roosevelt’s visit to Tontoua base in New Caledonia …
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… pre-digital presidents might have envied; one can imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan putting it to effective use. But … are not really much different today than they were in Roosevelt’s time. (Or Aristotle’s, for that matter.) At the …
If a president gave an Oval Office address and the networks refused to air it, would it make a sound? This is not, most likely, a question that occupies philosophers, but it does cause White House communications staffers to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.
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… resolve it, therefore bequeathing it to their successors. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933 both inherited and created his crisis. The … States has never had a trained economist as president. Franklin Roosevelt studied history at Harvard before …
Financial crises happen when you least expect them, including soon after a new president takes office. Containing a crisis can require quick decision making and action before the new administration has accrued significant experience.
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… an adjunct to peace in the traditional vision of [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt and [Harry] Truman. These themes cropped up … or anybody else? Barshefsky Alice, and of course Frank [Franklin] Raines. OMB controls the White House budget process …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… health care, and his disappointment, and that at least [Franklin D.] Roosevelt had looked at it in the ’30s and decided to go with … than the health issue, and that it went back to Teddy Roosevelt’s progressive period, where he tried to move it …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… were so much more fundamental than the differences Roosevelt confronted, for example. Even if the postponement of confrontation which Roosevelt so often practiced had been used, it wouldn’t have … of you gentlemen, but the difference is that at the time Franklin Roosevelt took office, there was an acute sense in …
Presidential Biographies
… the first Democratic victory since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the man who had twice … John Nance Garner of Texas, also sought the nomination. Roosevelt's floor managers managed to convince Garner and key …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… and the Cuban missile crisis, whether it is F.D.R. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] and the Depression and the war—most Presidents are … his backbone on holding— Summers Panetta, Rubin, Bowles, [Franklin] Raines. Riley So there’s quite a group then. We’ve …
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… his office. Whether it was the calm, solemn addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the plain-spoken calls to patriotism of George W. …
Miller Center expert Barbara Perry tells NPR's All Things Considered how previous presidents led in times of crisis
Public Events
… which he would, Herbert Hoover, ultimately would lose to Franklin Roosevelt on his first election to the presidency. … But, there’s Hoover, Taft, Benjamin Harrison, ah, Franklin Roosevelt, ah, Nixon, Eisenhower, Wilson, Cleveland, …
Presidential Biographies
… as a confidante and political adviser. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected Senator Truman as his vice-presidential … worse, Bess became First Lady in the shadow of Eleanor Roosevelt, who, during her twelve years in that role, had …