Johnson was warned that Home Rule for the District of Columbia could be his Supreme Court fight , " said another member of the White House staff interview by the author with Hayes Redmon , September 22 , 1965 ) .
Carter adopted a number of programs that could trace their ancestry to the New Deal . ... Carter changed this situation by naming S. David Freeman chairman of the board and instructing him to effect a turnabout in policy .
In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan
**** Reprint of the Cornell UP revision of 1985. The first edition (1983) is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Documents the friendship between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their advisor following FDR's defeat as a vice-presidential candidate, describing the challenges the couple met in accordance with Howe's recommendations.
This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth.
Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration.
Meticulously compiled from more than 70 large-format, digitally restored period photos - some never before published, and most with extended captions - FDR: A Life in Pictures documents as no other book can the remarkable living legacy of ...
The story of John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, by their son, covering fifteen years of their married life, brings out the effects of public life on the family's private life and the impact of one generation of the family on those that ...
See, too, Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., A History of South Carolina, 1865–1960 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960), 75. ... Robert R. Reynolds to Haywood Robbins Jr., March 2, 1936; Robbins to Wallace Winbourne, March 17, 1936; Robbins to Marvin ...
In July of 1941 Bush and his associate, Harvard president James Conant, received a copy of a draft report from the NDRC's liaison office in London. A British scientific group named the MAUD ...