William Starr Myers (Garden City, NY, 1970), 2:500¥505; 587¥590; New York Times, February 13, 1921, January 14, 1933; Will Rogers, Weekly Articles (Stillwater, OK, 1980), 5:235. 17.
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 19321940 (New York: HarperCollins, 1963), 42. See, for example, Meg Kissinger, “Milwaukeeans Remember FDR's Impact on Their Lives,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 12, ...
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John Quincy Adams, first annual message to Congress, November 25, 1825, in The State ofthe Union Messages ofthe Presidents, ... John C. Calhoun to Virgil Maxcy, September 11, 1830, Galloway-Maxcy-Markoe Papers, cited in Freehling, ...
... Lincoln feared that if he called for them, right after McClellan's defeats near Richmond, there would be a panic. ... Anna shared a carriage while riding out to the funeral of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's infant son, James.