Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

" By March 21, Roosevelt's Ambassador to the USSR Averell Harriman cabled Roosevelt that " we must come clearly to realize that the Soviet program is the establishment of totalitarianism, ending personal liberty and democracy as we know it.

After President Roosevelt's death in April, however, Donovan's political position, which had thrived because of his personal relationship to the President, was substantially weakened.

Roosevelt's motivations for agreeing to Morgenthau's proposal may be attributed to his desire to be on good terms with Joseph Stalin and to a personal conviction that Germany must be treated harshly.

In 1942, Wendell Wilkie traveled to Britain and the Middle East as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal representative.

Roosevelt's personal approach to foreign policy prevented Stettinius from making major contributions at these conferences.

" As Alexander Woolcott noted, in an introduction to a Reader's Club edition of Roughead, even U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a special shelf just outside of the Oval Office, labelled " The President's Shelf ", with the " rarest of brews " being Roosevelt's personal selection of Roughead.

The Little White House, in the Warm Springs Historic District in Warm Springs, Georgia, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal retreat.

Through Roosevelt's personal intervention, the building was saved — but nearly all its external ornamentation was stripped, and plans for a terraced fountain nearby eliminated ( although a small fountain was built in what eventually became known as Patrick Henry Park ).

* Little White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia

As a close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with whom he had daily telephone conversations, Bullitt was widely regarded as Roosevelt's personal envoy to France, and as such was a man much courted by French politicians.

From 1941 to 1943, President Roosevelt's Secret Service was housed in the basement and third-floor service areas, and some of the President's personal White House staff and friends occasionally stayed in the main bedrooms of the house, including those of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt.

Roosevelt also believed that because of the overwhelming support that had been shown for the New Deal in his re-election, Hughes was able to persuade Roberts to no longer base his votes on his own political beliefs and side with him during future votes on New Deal related policies In one of his notes from 1936, Hughes wrote that Roosevelt's re-election forced the court to depart from " its fortress in public opinion " and severely weakened it's capability to base it's rulings on personal or political beliefs.

He earned acclaim for his horse shows, which helped sell war bonds during World War II and he tended to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's personal horses.

Finkelstein served as the official Jewish representative to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's commission on peace, and in 1963 President John F. Kennedy sent him to Rome as part of an American delegation to the installation of Pope Paul VI.

McCandless recommended changing the four stars such that they were each made of 12 small stars, arranged in the shape of a larger six-pointed star ; the four large stars would represent Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, the 48 total stars would represent the states, and the six-pointed star would be representative of the president's rank above five-star generals and admirals.

Roosevelt's party landed in Mombasa, British East Africa ( now Kenya ), traveled to the Belgian Congo ( now Democratic Republic of the Congo ) before following the Nile to Khartoum in modern Sudan.

In February 1909, Beebe and Blair traveled to British Guiana, in the hope that with Roosevelt's support, it might be possible to establish a permanent field research station there.

Fala also traveled with Roosevelt to his home ( Springwood ) in Hyde Park, New York and Warm Springs, Georgia ( Roosevelt's favorite spa town ).

Fala was often with Roosevelt on the scene of important events ; he traveled on Sacred Cow, the president's airplane, and the Ferdinand Magellan, Roosevelt's custom-made train car, as well as by ship.

Roosevelt's attempts to tie Britain to concrete war aims and Churchill's desperation to bind the U. S. to the war effort helped provide motivations for the meeting which produced the Atlantic Charter.

" With a war that could only be won with these allies, Roosevelt's solution was to put some pressure on Britain but to postpone until after the war the issue of self-determination of the colonies.

On foreign policy, Byrnes was a champion of Roosevelt's positions of helping Great Britain and France against Nazi Germany in 1939 – 1941, and of maintaining a hard diplomatic line against Japan.

President Roosevelt's 1941 decision to " loan " fifty obsolete World War I-era destroyers to Britain in exchange for foreign bases, was largely irrelevant.

An attempt to influence Roosevelt's special emissary, Wendell Willkie, on a visit to Great Britain and Ireland January 1941, failed.

He served as this until 1905 when he was appointed U. S. consul to Great Britain which he served as until the end of Roosevelt's term in 1909.

Speaking in the Senate on June 21, 1940, he denounced Roosevelt's plans to provide armaments to Great Britain:

In the 1940s, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and then of the Senate Finance Committee, George supported Roosevelt's efforts at military preparedness, including Lend-Lease aid to Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, already at war, and American defensive build-up in response to the threat posed by Japanese and German militarism.

Like several others who had opposed Roosevelt's efforts to aid Great Britain before Pearl Harbor but faced wartime elections, Gillette lost his next race, in 1944, to Iowa Governor and Republican Bourke B. Hickenlooper.

Among the hundreds of schools and streets named in Roosevelt's honor are Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Washington, the surrounding Roosevelt neighborhood, the district's main arterial, Roosevelt Way N. E., and Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, Oregon.

Other books have discussed the incident, including David S. Woolman's Rebels in the Rif, Michael B. Oren's Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present and Bill Fawcett's Oval Office Oddities, and a lengthy, in-depth chapter on the kidnapping and President Roosevelt's reaction is included in Edmund Morris's second Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex.

Theodore Roosevelt impersonator Joe Wiegand performs October 27, 2008 in the East Room of the White House, during a celebration of Roosevelt's 150th birthday.

Major political developments in the early 1930s, chief among them Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election in 1932, gave rise to internal tensions with the Socialist Party, and a group of Socialist labor leaders on the East Coast left the Socialist Party to form the Social Democratic Federation ( U. S .).

The next morning, a televised 20-minute farewell speech to the White House staff took place in the East Room, during which the President read from Theodore Roosevelt's biography and praised his own parents.

Grew's book Sport and Travel in the Far East was a favorite one of Roosevelt's.

Theodore Roosevelt impersonator Joe Wiegand performs October 27, 2008 in the East Room of the White House, during a celebration of Roosevelt's 150th birthday.

In the late 1990s, Roosevelt's supporters again took up the flag for him.

* From late 1943 until President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death on April 12, 1945.

Schacht supported public works programs, most notably the construction of autobahnen ( highways ) to attempt to alleviate unemployment – policies which had been instituted in Germany by von Schleicher's government in late 1932, and had in turn influenced Roosevelt's policies.

The book — written in the aftermath of the Democrats ' heavy losses in the 1938 mid-term elections — assumes that by 1938 – 39 Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal had failed due to the constant attacks by his opponents, that in the 1940 elections Roosevelt would prove unelectable, that his downfall would drag the Democratic Party to ruin and that a sharp drift to the Right would culminate in an extreme-right dictatorship in the late 1940s — which would, however, prove short-lived and after which the pendulum would swing sharply to the Left again.

" In late 1944, Roosevelt's election opponent, Thomas Dewey, said it was worth " ten divisions ".

In the late 1930s, the State Department was divided by rivalry between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Undersecretary Sumner Welles, who was Roosevelt's favorite.