Roosevelt

But the President was no Wilson or Franklin Roosevelt when it came to bending Congress to his will.

The news was given to Mr. Truman by Mrs. Roosevelt in one of her private rooms in the White House.

Roosevelt made his papers public of his own volition, but more recent presidents have not had a choice in the matter.

Frances Perkins, later Franklin Roosevelt's labour secretary, was one of those who watched the fire.

Right across the door of the Oval Office is what was his former office, known as the Roosevelt Room.

President Roosevelt said he would end the depression and put people back to work.

President Franklin Roosevelt knew that the United States would need to develop modern weapons of its own if it entered the war.

Roosevelt was no ideologue. He had denounced the budget deficits of his Republican predecessor when running for president in 1932.

In the 1930s Roosevelt was the prophet of hope for the United States, just as he was for the free world in the 1940s.

I remember at White House, how I would hear that Roosevelt had groaned because still another painting of him had come in as a gift.

This was one of several intimate and private conversations I had with Mr. Roosevelt during the war.

But the optimism of Roosevelt was infectious; gradually confidence began to return after he took office.

Roosevelt also said the United States could avoid war if Britain was strong enough to defeat Germany by itself.

He was not the kind of traditional conservative Republican that Roosevelt had defeated so easily in his first two campaigns.

In private they were less tactful. Taft dismissed him as "a peace crank" ; Roosevelt viewed him with "contemptuous abhorrence" .

A few days later at a cabinet meeting, Roosevelt spoke strongly for a "legal" explanation of America's rights in the Panamanian straight.

Businesses' worst excesses must be restrained lest the public turn against the American capitalist system, Roosevelt and his allies argued.

Franklin Roosevelt and his fellow Democrats tried hard to keep Herbert Hoover's name off the dam that had been started on his watch.

From the outset Roosevelt was more responsive to the needs of the millions in distress than Hoover had been.

By contrast, "no intelligence or operations of any consequence have come out of SACO, " Donovan reported to Roosevelt in November 1944.

Mr. Roosevelt invited me to join him at dinner in his villa. "Let us make it a family affair, " he said.

Roosevelt was one of the savviest [22]and most hard-headed politicians ever to occupy the White House.

Put bluntly, governments have to step up to the plate, as [U. S. President Franklin] Roosevelt did in the Great Depression.

Roosevelt was concerned that Germany might be able to develop deadly new weapons, such as an atomic bomb, if it was not stopped quickly.

When the Roosevelt administration went about taking control of the economy, it had to fight against the courts the whole way.

President Roosevelt reacted by issuing an order that made it a crime to deny blacks a chance for jobs in defense industries.

John McCain said he modelled himself on Teddy Roosevelt, a man who "nourished the soul of a great nation" .

Roosevelt's "First 100 Days" -- described as a "Defining Moment" for America by author Jonathan Alter -- was a time of struggle and renewal.

Did you know former President Teddy Roosevelt was an American? -Oh! Hah! -That's it!

There may have been some warrant for Roosevelt's suspicions, but he was more aware than his son of the ambiguities of the Grand Alliance.

A later call on president Roosevelt and prime Minister Churchill, a guest at the White House, was no more than an informal chat.

It was June, 1933, and Franklin Roosevelt led the U. S. delegation at a world economic summit held in London.

Roosevelt had to reply that the moment for such action was not opportune since Congress would have to approve a transfer of the destroyers.

The first took place in 1937, when Franklin Roosevelt mistakenly heeded the advice of his own era's deficit worriers.

Such a reversal could not be accomplished unless Roosevelt had a strong majority in Congress.

Roosevelt understood , and I must say he was an excellent speaker to interpret for, showing in a variety of away consideration for my work.

The next day, with a push of a telegraph button in the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt opened the bridge to cars, too.

Roosevelt found his way out of this dilemma.

Mrs. Roosevelt assumed this essential role, which she said was like being his "eyes and ears. "

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

Taht's why the American President, Franklin Roosevelt, said: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

Roosevelt continued to fight against "Big Business, " and he led a successful crusade to break up the Standard Oil monopoly in 1907.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt.

Gradually, I finally returned to the level it belongs to my own, it can be really grateful to Roosevelt, was his attitude of let me grow.

President Franklin Roosevelt put it more elegantly when he said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. "

A view expressed in London earlier was that Mr. Roosevelt would have preferred the work to go forward.

But the most original solution was that of President Franklin Roosevelt, soon after his inauguration in 1933.

It was certainly enough to turn Roosevelt in his tracks, with a compelling logic that was as much political as economic.

When these cases got to the Supreme Court, the court threw out key parts of Roosevelt's program as unconstitutional . The U. S.

No doubt Stalin remained skeptical, but it was as loud and powerful a commitment as Roosevelt could give him.

When Theodore Roosevelt became president in the early nineteen hundreds, he was ready to try again.

For weeks after Mr. Obama took office, Mr. Orszag sat directly across the table from him in the Roosevelt Room.

The United States was a world power in fact as well as in name when Roosevelt left the White House in 1909.

Roosevelt responded with regulations and federal antitrust lawsuits to break up the greatest concentrations of industrial power.

Then his manager called him into the office and said: "Take those off. You'll get a reaction from the Roosevelt people. "

After his wife's death, Roosevelt consoled himself by writing, hunting, fishing, and working on his ranch in the Dakota Territory.

He died of gangrene eight days after he was hit and was replaced in office by his far more memorable vice-president, Theodore Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt had been at Warm Springs for over a week.

Roosevelt may have wanted to enter the war; but surely he did not want the Japanese to defeat America.

He did not feel flattered when Roosevelt summoned him, or put out when the President forgot he was alive.

Five years later, when Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House, populism entered mainstream American politics as well.

President Roosevelt holds the record, he gave over 3700 executive orders, though he did have longer than everyone else in the White House.

Roosevelt was prepared to be radical to meet dangerous circumstances.

Roger Thornhill I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.

Marshall finally sought President Roosevelt's approval to ask Chiang to give Stilwell the authority to control Chiang's military forces.

Roosevelt's contributions to the science of administration alone would entitle him to distinction among the Presidents.

In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt changed Thanksgiving to a week earlier than usual so the Christmas shopping season would last longer.

Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory.

The health-care contract between American workers and their employers began when Franklin D. Roosevelt left health care out of his New Deal.

Roosevelt, having won a great deal of free publicity, generously asked for the smallest amount of damages the law would allow : six cents.

For this nearly catastrophic rupture, Roosevelt was himself in large measure responsible.

Roosevelt found the German leader "vain as a peacock, " and resistant to his warnings about militarism.

Roosevelt succeeded as a policy maker and politician by following four simple rules that ought to guide the Obama administration as well.

For a moment, the only sound in the room was the blaring of a car horn on Roosevelt Avenue two stories below.

But since the Depression and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the power of the federal government has expanded at a gallop.

In 1941, Roosevelt finally changed the date to the fourth Thursday in November, proclaiming it a Federal holiday in 1941.

Malaria: On an expedition into the Amazon rainforest in 1913, Roosevelt contracted malaria, made worse by an infected leg wound.

Edward Stettinius Jr. Becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble EASE, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. --Theodore Roosevelt, American statesman.

Believe it or not, the term United Nations was actually coined by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in a bathtub.

It was thus with acute political acumen that Roosevelt led the country through the Great Depression and to its victory in World War II.

Another possible place was to the north: Nicaragua. President Roosevelt appointed a committee to decide which place would be better.

We had now protected more land in the lower forty-eight states than any administration since that of Theodore Roosevelt.

After leaving Hitler's anti-semitic Germany, Einstein claimed in a note to Franklin Roosevelt that such a bomb was possible.

In his inaugural speech upon assuming the presidency, Roosevelt assured the country, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

According to a former KGB general, Pavel Sudoplatov, Roosevelt had at least two Soviet agents in his inner cabinet.

The last time wolverines were known to live in Colorado, Theodore Roosevelt had just died and women had not yet won the right to vote.

So wrote the American president, Theodore Roosevelt, on his safari to what is now Kenya, exactly a century ago.

Roosevelt dedicated the dam in September of nineteen thirty-five, although it was not completed until the next year.

In "Scorpions" , Noah Feldman offers a detailed account of the troubles and achievements of Roosevelt's four most notable appointees.

"I am thrilled, " replied Roosevelt the next day, "by the news of our success under Wingate" .

But because she was married to U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she had to speak in public often.

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression , Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves .

President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information , and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head .

When President Roosevelt closed America's banks in March 1933 to try to halt a meltdown, the bank's overseas deposit base shrank by just 2%.

Roosevelt was an outdoorsman and a hunter, but he also loved animals.

" Liberals , " following the lead of Roosevelt and the Democratic Party, became advocates of this expansion in the name of social justice.

Roosevelt' s mobile pink face turned grave and tired again, and coughed, glancing at his wife.

President Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor planted what was called a " Victory Garden" as part of the War effort in 1943.

The Roosevelt family poses for the camera two years after moving into the White House.

Eleanor Roosevelt was also entitled to use a type of the Roosevelt coat of arms, even prior to her marriage to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt had this painting hung in the White House as a celebration of American art and engineering.

Roosevelt "acted effectively, and the number of terms or the years he spent in power did not matter, " Putin said.

Whether you agree with his political views or not, Franklin D. Roosevelt hit on something profound in his first inaugural address.

Willkie agreed not to criticize Roosevelt when the president sent fifty ships to the British navy.

For a while she had hoped that his "in" with President Roosevelt might lead to big things, but that was not happening.

In the practice of politics Roosevelt was as hardheaded a realist as ever sat in the presidential chair .

He had established a personal relationship with President Roosevelt that he hoped would flower into a war-winning alliance.

Churchill arrived in Washington to talk Roosevelt out of an early invasion Europe.

The book reveals how the KGB penetrated the top levels of the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administration.

Theodore Roosevelt was relieved to hear "Gatling music" in support while fighting the Spanish-American war.

Hitler's mistakes gave Roosevelt the victory: just as at Waterloo it was less Wellington who won than Napoleon who lost.

Victor Henry saw that he had scored with Roosevelt and that the moment was favorable .

Mr. Field: There was a very strong recovery following Roosevelt's election, interrupted only temporarily by the 1937 recession.

Back in his honeymoon days Mr Obama was constantly compared to Roosevelt. No longer.

More significant for the immediate future, however, was Roosevelt's decision further to relieve the British position in the North Atlantic .

Roosevelt by the end of May was privately boasting that he had prevented his own renomination and could dictate the naming of Taft.

Franklin D Roosevelt took a thumping in 1938 and went on to win two more presidential elections.

The little boy didn't become a botanist, but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression.

A few days ago a conference of the leaders of the three Allied nations - Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill - took place at Teheran.

I compare Clinton to Roosevelt a lot in that they are so much alike in terms of being these gifted, hypomanic , genius presidents.

The first ceremony took place in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

She dedicated her life so completely to Franklin Roosevelt that it broke her health and led to her early death.

"A presumptuous pup, I'm afraid. " Victor Henry was trying to read the document, which was explosive, while chatting with Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt's white linen suit and white straw hat glared in the bright sun, as he sat in his open car beside the stand.

He gave President Roosevelt-indirect letters and conversations-some sympathetic knowledge of China's Liberated Areas.

In contrast to the polished Ivy League law-school types that sit on the court today, Roosevelt's quadrumvirate was a varied lot.

Roosevelt had gone hunting with her cousins and the other men, while Nora had stayed with her female cousins in an elegant mansion.

Roosevelt to become a world historical figure, is due to his contribution to the struggle against fascism.

Roosevelt could also have talked about how legitimate fortunes can be made out of goods and services associated with vice.

US President Theodore Roosevelt had wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal, but was not willing to pay what Colombia asked.

Elected easily , Roosevelt attacked corruption with vigor , championed social legislation, and was consequently soon at odds with Platt .

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, U. S. President: This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

Born into a wealthy family and always treated very well, Theodore Roosevelt was on a quest through to improve himself and his country.

There was a time when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin could shape the world in one meeting.

Mr McCain says that President Teddy Roosevelt is one of his heroes.

President Franklin Roosevelt had been assistant secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson during World War One.

Having twice failed with Bryan, the Democrats decided to try a conservative to offset the impulsive Roosevelt.

Roosevelt turned corporate opposition into a badge of honor: "I welcome their hatred, " he declared.

Roosevelt was ready to take over Panama to build the canal.

President Theodore Roosevelt's family had a pony, a sheep, a bird, guinea pigs, dogs, cats, rats and a snake.

Roosevelt tells the United States that it must be on guard against enemy agents and spies!

During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt had asked the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, to enter the war against Japan.

This has been a key purpose of presidential libraries since Franklin Roosevelt built the first one.

Yes, Roosevelt substantially rewrote the American social contract, but he was a stubborn fiscal conservative in the process.

Franklin Roosevelt was born to a rich and important New York family. ? was born to ? be born to purple ?

That's why Franklin Roosevelt waited until 1935, when the Great Depression seemed to be waning, to push Social Security through Congress.

He became fast friends with some of the men who had pursued him, and even welcomed President Teddy Roosevelt to his home in Oklahoma.

Roosevelt, with his experience as Assistant Secretary of War during WWI, understood the importance of what was going on across the seas.

Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt.

A cartoon from the New York Herald shows Theodore Roosevelt struggling with a wrestler representing the railroads, as Uncle Sam watches.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face" (Eleanor Roosevelt).

Owing to the reluctance of the American public to enter the war, Roosevelt could not pursue his aim directly.

Consider how impoverished we would be without the contributions of Einstein, Beethoven, Edison, Roosevelt, da Vinci or Stephen Hawking.

But Fisher had at best a slight influence on Roosevelt's decision. His reputation had fallen so far that even fellow academics ignored him.

The Roosevelt administration demanded no fiscal transfers from them, and it did not buy out their debt.

Calvin Coolidge, like Roosevelt, had it all, lion cubs, a goose, a bobcat, a raccoon and a pygmy hippo named Billy.

At tonight's reception, you'll see that American buffalo do adorn our mantel -- in honor of President Roosevelt 's firm request.

Roosevelt did not achieve an immediate recovery.

Elliott had brought his outsize personality and tough mind to Washington for Franklin Roosevelt and stayed connected with that world.

Franklin Roosevelt made it to Canada in his first year, but only for a holiday.

When Roosevelt died a year later, Truman became president.

That was fully justifiable; indeed, the only course open to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, given their public opinion.

Roosevelt understood that when citizens lose hope and meaning, they hunker down, grow fearful of one another, and progress stagnates.

Yes, Roosevelt was a bold and visionary innovator who substantially rewrote the American social contract.

Like Roosevelt, Obama's presidency will begin after years of bitter partisan politics.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" .

However, President Roosevelt had such three reasons to be so grateful.

Later in his presidency, he focused on Theodore Roosevelt as a president who presided over a period of peacetime transformation.

The campaign , however , soon turned into a verbal duel between Roosevelt and Wilson .

It is not yet known whether Mr. Truman will go to San Francisco to speak at the opening of the conference as Mr. Roosevelt was to have done.

Roosevelt laid careful plans for winning his chief objective, the chance to be President in his own right .

Eleanor Roosevelt says that "You must do the thing you think you cannot do. "

It was such a raw moment that Roosevelt said they had all better get ready for dinner.

Roosevelt later praised Anderson in her syndicated newspaper column, and the two became friends.

He had resigned in 1938 partly because he thought his prime minister, Chamberlain, had treated Roosevelt shabbily .

In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt tried to tiptoe around the war question and when that didn't wash, he simply lied about it.

Unfortunately , other than being a bit more reasonable on trade, Roosevelt followed the same approach .

Vladimir Putin in an interview at his fourth consecutive term for World War II, U. S. President Roosevelt expressed his appreciation.

For Mr. Roosevelt believed that the men inside had a right a redress of their grievances.

Roosevelt , moreover, dispatched the U. S. A. Nashville to Colon , on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus .

SHEP O'NEAL: Roosevelt's first political career did not last long.

The German radio gave the news of Mr. Roosevelt's death, under an Amsterdam dateline, without comment.

My grandfather's quaint worries about me and Mel Ott and Eleanor Roosevelt are enough to make a contemporary worrier weep with envy.

It is a shadow commonplace that Roosevelt was "outsmarted" at the later conference in Yalta and gave away too much to Stalin.

But Hillary Rodham was no match for Eleanor Roosevelt in popularity.

I told her that someday I wanted to be half of a couple as ideal couple as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

He notified Roosevelt of his decision in October, readying himself for the consequences.

Bullitt in the Yalta deal whereby President Roosevelt invited Stalin to come into Manchuria and join the war against Japan.

He had never quarreled openly with Roosevelt but never felt a moment of rapport .

SHEP O'NEAL: President Roosevelt believed the company violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Law.

He returned to the United States in 1941 and there conferred more than once with President Franklin Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt loved outdoor activities. He especially loved the natural beauty of the land.

In 1905, the Russo-Japanese War settled into a stalemate, US President Teddy Roosevelt was called in to mediate the settlement.

And after Roosevelt's death, passage of the 22nd Amendment established a limit of two four-year terms for a president.

President Roosevelt was mighty proud when he awarded the Navy Cross for heroism to his son.

Roosevelt saw America's involvement in the fight against the Japanese partly as an opportunity to forge a new relationship with China.

Her other books include A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover and several other articles about Theodore Roosevelt.

Back in his honeymoon days Mr Obama was constantly compared to Roosevelt.

Roosevelt led the nation through the end of the great economic depression and World War Two.

Compare and contrast with Roosevelt's: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. "

By late 1942, Chiang was still hesitant to ask Roosevelt to replace Stilwell.

But the recovery was still not durable enough to survive Roosevelt's spending cuts and new Social Security tax.

Theodore Roosevelt faced the responsibilities of foreign policy with the same strength he used in facing national problems.

During the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt from 1901 to 1909 , conservation was an important domestic policy .

It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt.

I told her that someday I wanted to be half of a couple as ideal as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The Airlift Group was founded in 1944 as the Presidential Pilot Office at the direction of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Doolittle accepted the Congress supreme Medal awarded by President Roosevelt in the White House.

They are proposing a huge spending bill along the lines of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to try to reverse the economic downturn.

President Roosevelt dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting the United States and Canada.

S. He used it to promote zionism, pacifism, in his secret 1939 letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the construction of a uranium bomb.

Frances Perkins, the first woman in a Presidential cabinet, serves as Secretary of Labor during the entire Roosevelt presidency.

Like much of the social safety net, the current UI system was a product of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Attended high school at Roosevelt School of the Arts and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Film & Theater arts.

Roosevelt went into Churchill's room in the morning to say hello.

To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt from a different context, the greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Adolf Hitler's decision to break his treaty with Soviet leader Josef Stalin and attack the Soviet Union made Roosevelt's choice final.

Roosevelt would desperately need the support of Southerners on foreign policy in the next Congress.

President Franklin Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as the first female cabinet member in United States history.

The Russo-Japanese war would have ended without Roosevelt's help, Fried argued, perhaps after a few more weeks of fighting.

The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, all but required sharply unbalanced budgets, whether from Herbert Hoover or Franklin Roosevelt.

1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

"The alleged victim was taken to Roosevelt Hospital (in Manhattan) and was treated for minor injuries, " Browne said.

Franklin Roosevelt was a goo-goo extraordinaire. He simultaneously made government much bigger and much cleaner. Mr.

For as Franklin Roosevelt put it, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. '

By contrast, when we actually were in the Great Depression, President Roosevelt said: "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself. "

Under Franklin Roosevelt, and for several generations afterward, the official American inclination has been toward equality.

By the time Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met again at Yalta, an Allied victory was almost guaranteed.

Plenty of hate-filled partisans swore that Abraham Lincoln was a Catholic and Franklin Roosevelt was a Jew.

Among them were three presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt and two George Bushes.

That year American President Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed "Teddy" , went on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill said, was like opening your first bottle of champagne.

Economic historians generally agree that Roosevelt did attempt to rein in the deficit prematurely by raising taxes in 1936.

Roosevelt was personally interested in preserving the environment and providing temporary employment for the nation's youth.

1906 - Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel prize of any kind.

Speaking to a nation plagued by economic woes, Roosevelt emphasized that the fear of disaster was far more deadly than the disaster itself.

Before Preceedings, Churchill and Stalin agreed that Roosevelt the only head of state would preside at the first formal session.

The faces of four presidents are carved into the mountainside: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Cochran wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939 about an idea she had for a corps of women Army reserve pilots.

Not, of course, for today's Republicans, who instinctively side with those Theodore Roosevelt-dubbed "malefactors of great wealth. "

Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed smiling attention, saying nothing, and applauding heartily with the rest.

Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have been advocating universal health care without success, and Mr. Obama vowed to fare better.

He was in a faraway place called Cuba, fighting for a man called Roosevelt.

"I think this would be a good time for a beer, " Mr Roosevelt said, before signing the 21st amendment.

So prevalent was the good feeling that Roosevelt and Garner were nominated by a mighty shout on the first ballot.

No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. --Franklin Roosevelt, American president.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a shy young girl who was terrified at the thought of speaking in public.