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Presidential Speeches
… by noble words and pure intentions. "Enduring peace," Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "cannot be bought at the cost of other …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… I’m trading on a famous name. I want to change it to Teddy Roosevelt.’ Just totally fiction, you understand. Anyway, it … is—and he waited a long time before FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] offered him any kind of appointment, and then it …
Presidential Recordings
… -Congress -John D. Ehrlichman's contribution to speech -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Comparison to Fireside Chat -Use of family analogy …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… concluded at the Bureau of the Budget, I went to Arthur D. Little where I mainly worked on public policy issues such … office. 8:00, troika meets with rest of senior staff in Roosevelt Room. 8:30, Meese meets with his staff in his … help referring to this book I’m reading on [Benjamin] Franklin, that they said many people in France—Franklin was …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Orleans. We’d meet there, we’d have a fundraiser at the Roosevelt Hotel for Louisiana Democratic Party, and the next … We went to their hall, and he gave a little talk about Franklin Roosevelt, and of course, that thrilled me because he was my …
Presidential Recordings
… -Book about Inaugural addresses -Speechwriting staff -Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second Inaugural address -Theodore Roosevelt’s second Inaugural address -Quality -Raymond K. …
Presidential Recordings
… views on Jefferson, [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt -Knopf -Timing -Raymond K. Price, Jr. -Woods’ talk … Kennedy -Johnson -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Harry S. Truman -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Use of money -Analogy to lighting White House 34 …
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… During the Great Depression and then the Second World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran a command economy. For a time, he shut down the …
Russell Riley describes when U.S. presidents have modified institutional practices to address emergencies.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… who really worked for national health insurance. Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912, when he was running on the Bull Moose … President—had come out for national health insurance. FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] pulled it out of his package on Social Security in …
Presidential Recordings
… at an unknown time after 3:44 pm. Instructions for Bull -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Birthdate -Theodore R. Roosevelt -Age at death … -Cabinet officials -Robert J. Dole -Women -Barbara H. Franklin -Armstrong 1972 campaign finances -General …
Presidential Biographies
… battle to succeed him. With strong support from President Franklin Roosevelt, Barkley won the contest by a single vote. During … By the time he took over as majority leader, however, Roosevelt's ambitious agenda had opened stark divisions in …
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… to $40,000 (equivalent to over $1 million today). Theodore Roosevelt reportedly commented about his free-spirited … be president or “attend to Alice” but not both. Cousin Franklin Roosevelt’s five children entered into a total of 19 …
Barbara Perry surveys first family calamities from James Madison onward.
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… The focus of this telephone conversation between President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, however, is … in the Oval Office itself, it features only President Roosevelt's side of the conversation. Date : Oct 04, 1940 Participants : Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull Conversation Number : RL …
Presidential Speeches
… dear friends: In his first inaugural address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, and I quote: The people of the United States …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… every night at 7:30 or 7:00, had a drink, and then we'd have dinner. That's when I met Rose Kennedy, who elicited … invention of Karl Marx and it's the invention of Theodore Roosevelt, and the fun he has with it. Roosevelt was really … across as kind of joyous and fun, as it did with FDR [Franklin D. Roosevelt]. Heininger Whereas I could not see …
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… have labored to transform the health-care system. Franklin D. Roosevelt did not include national health insurance in the … Medical Association, mobilize in exactly the manner Roosevelt had feared. Read the full article at The Washington …
Incrementalism doesn’t excite activists—but it’s how health-care systems are built.
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… that and he said, Listen, would you like to come down? We’d like to meet you. So I took the subway down to Wall Street. … that you would attribute to other politicians like maybe Franklin Roosevelt would do something like this, and I think that’s …
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… Early in the first year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt faced a crisis unlike any other in the nation's … The day he entered office on March 4, 1933, President Roosevelt took action, declaring a banking holiday for March …
The first of FDR's 30 fireside chats addressed the banking crisis in a uniquely personal way
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… administration, was that they’d had the foresight in the [Franklin D.] Roosevelt years to make Social Security—and later, Medicare … wage was created in the 1930s, and became one of FDR’s [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] enduring achievements. It kept …
Presidential Biographies
… into her nineties—long enough to see him succeed President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Mama,” as Truman called his mother, passed away …