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… in the election, receiving only 59 electoral votes to Franklin Roosevelt's 472. Curtis then retired from public …
Presidential Recordings
… John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt -Press -Popular opinion -Silent Majority -Cover-up …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… about the minutiae. In contrast, you read history about Franklin Roosevelt. He was the master of the situation he had to know … you always have with the great leaders: [Woodrow] Wilson, Roosevelt. Young I will probably take this off the tape, but …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Before [Richard M.] Nixon named Rehnquist and [Lewis Franklin, Jr.] Powell, he floated a number of trial balloons; … Basically Reagan—it was like, I’m going to dismantle FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt], and the country said no. I’m …
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… listeners to “see” with the mind’s eye. This was what Franklin Roosevelt had to come to terms with when he assumed office. … simultaneously, to each individual. Indeed, you can’t say Roosevelt’s name without immediately thinking “fireside …
What must the next president do in the first year to manage the overheated, ubiquitous, yet fragmented media environment in which we find ourselves today?
Oral History Interviews
| George H. W. Bush Project… Convention, the one Virginia delegate who supported Franklin Roosevelt was also the Congressman from that area. The rest … Bulgaria had all been assigned in the communist world by Roosevelt’s decisions at Yalta. And my dad was very active in …
Presidential Speeches
… them all as friends--President Herbert Hoover, President Franklin Roosevelt, President Harry Truman, President Dwight … them all as friends--President Herbert Hoover, President Franklin Roosevelt, President Harry Truman, President Dwight …
Presidential Speeches
… and influence in Latin America it could persuade - as Franklin Roosevelt did in 1940 - the countries of Latin … identify ourselves with it as Lincoln, as Wilson did, as Franklin Roosevelt did, if we become known as the friend of … atmosphere which existed in Latin America at the time of Franklin Roosevelt. He was a good neighbor in Latin America …
Presidential Biographies
… as executive officer of the university in 1938. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him as a Republican member of the U.S. …
Presidential Biographies
… to Johnson's powerful new friends. The new President, Franklin Roosevelt, was fighting the Depression with dozens of social … as owner of a local radio station, aligned himself with Roosevelt's sweeping social policies, and won election in …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… than the comment of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., about FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt] in the early ’30s, when he said that Roosevelt had … Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, [Harry] Truman, [Dwight] Eisenhower, …
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… Wing Writers, Jeff Shesol is the author of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court , which was selected …
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… Since the landmark opening sessions of Franklin Roosevelt’s first term, presidents and the news …
A rookie president, entering office with as much goodwill as he (or she) is ever likely to enjoy, has room to maneuver and opportunities to act that seldom last long. At least since FDR presidents have intently followed the media’s short-term judgments about success and failure.
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… feuding of President Herbert Hoover and incoming President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. So, what have we learned from the crisis …
Presidential Speeches
… friend in politics, and that is the Democratic Party and Franklin D. Roosevelt. And I say to labor what I have said to the … same now as it was in 1932, and I paraphrase the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt as he issued the challenge, in …
Presidential Biographies
… governing coalition of the right without first dismantling Franklin Roosevelt's coalition of the left. As President, …
Richard Nixon's six years in the White House remain widely viewed as pivotal in American military, diplomatic, and political history.
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… or whatever. So I had this principals meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House where all of the … to Treasury from the meeting with the President in the Roosevelt Room saying, "Figure out how to announce this … this is a disaster," and the Democrats had all gone in the Roosevelt Room. They were all in there and I was afraid what …
Presidential Speeches
… Taft, we needed a Wilson—after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt . . . . And after eight years of drugged … our nation a new political and economic framework. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal promised security and succor to …
Presidential Biographies
… historic importance. Presidents after Harrison (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt) strengthened and used the law with significant …
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… with the people, despite his patrician New York accent. Franklin Roosevelt became the first successful electronic …
Jeffrey Tulis has argued that there are “two constitutional presidencies”: the Founders’ formal office established by the Constitution of 1789 with checks on popular will, and the informal modern presidency created by Woodrow Wilson based on popular rhetorical leadership.