The transition of the office to its modern stature occurred primarily as a result of Franklin Roosevelt's 1940 nomination, when he captured the ability to nominate his running mate instead of leaving the nomination to the convention.

As Republicans convened in Chicago on June 21 – 23, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt's nomination was assured.

He then announced a plan to unite diverse progressive elements under a new banner, declined an opportunity to run for the Senate under a Farmer-Labor Party nomination, and endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 re-election.

Starring Ralph Bellamy as Franklin D. Roosevelt, the film covered the years 1921 to 1924 at Campobello Island and events leading up to Roosevelt's nomination as the Democratic Party's candidate for president.

Farley helped bring to Roosevelt's camp the powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst and helped Roosevelt win the 1932 Presidential nomination and election.

Byrd himself was an early favorite for the 1932 presidential nomination but he opted to endorse Franklin D. Roosevelt at the right moment and became an official in Roosevelt's successful campaign.

Byrd and his colleague Carter Glass invoked senatorial courtesy to stop Roosevelt's nomination of Floyd H. Roberts to a federal judgeship in Virginia in 1939.

During the turmoil of the convention and the walkout of Theodore Roosevelt's supporters, Cummins ' name was not placed into nomination.

In October 1937, he rebuked Coughlin for casting aspersions on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sanity over his nomination of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, leading Coughlin to cancel his contract for twenty-six radio broadcasts.

" During his second gubernatorial administration he supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's “ court packing ” plan and Hugo Black's nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court.

Glass and Byrd invoked senatorial courtesy to defeat Roosevelt's nomination of Floyd H. Roberts to a federal judgeship, as part of a broader conflict over control of federal patronage in Virginia.

During Roosevelt's fight for the Democratic nomination in early 1932, the Warners made it an effort to make his name known throughout the state of California.

Still very conservative, George opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's nomination for president in 1932.

In the event, United States Secretary of War William Howard Taft of Ohio won Roosevelt's endorsement and received the nomination.

Roosevelt's nomination speech was made by former New York Governor Frank S. Black and it was seconded by Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge.

" After two weeks of script preparation, Wanger secured the financial backing of media magnate William Randolph Hearst, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's staunchest supporters, who had helped him get the Democratic presidential nomination and who enlisted his entire media empire to campaign for him.

He nevertheless defeated Roosevelt's choice for the Democratic nomination, Otha D. Wearin, and was elected to his first full Senate term.

* John Crowley's 2009 novel Four Freedoms is largely based on the themes of Roosevelt's speech.

This elaborate package, which DVDtalk. com called " the most extensive set released only one film " includes four discs of film and bonus features, a replication of Roosevelt's speech, collectible promotional postcards and a carrying case that resembles a historic photo album.

On December 6, 2011, President Barack Obama gave an economic speech reprising many of Roosevelt's themes in Osawatomie High School.

In addition to Roosevelt's speech, Albert Einstein gave a speech which discussed cosmic rays.

Seeking to benefit from being nearest to the president, Chandler sat between Roosevelt and Barkley in the back seat of the open-topped vehicle that transported them to Latonia Race Track, the site of Roosevelt's first speech.

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.

Roosevelt's speech is non-rhotic ; one of Roosevelt's most frequently heard speeches has a falling diphthong in the word fear, which distinguishes it from other forms of surviving non-rhotic speech in the United States.

In 1938, in what was possibly the station's most notable broadcast, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's convocation speech at the university was relayed by CFRC to all North American radio networks.

Schrank did shoot Roosevelt, but the bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest only after hitting both his steel eyeglass case and a 50-page copy of his speech he was carrying in his jacket.

" Churchill's line has been called a " direct quotation " from Roosevelt's speech.

Churchill, a keen soldier, was likely to have read works by Theodore Roosevelt, who was a widely published military historian ; it is also possible he read the speech after being appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, a position similar to Roosevelt's.

Nixon got the idea for the Checkers reference from Franklin Roosevelt's Fala speech — given eight years to the day before Nixon's address — in which Roosevelt mocked Republican claims that he had sent a destroyer to fetch his dog, Fala, when the dog was supposedly left behind in the Aleutian Islands.

Moses, in his speech, recalled Roosevelt's original hope to build the parkway all the way to Canada, the idea he had opposed three decades before.

* Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous Four Freedoms speech of 1941, in which " Freedom from Want " is characterized as the third and " Freedom from Fear " is the fourth such fundamental, universal, freedom.

He goes on to observe that the 1994 Human Development Report states that it is " reviving this concept " and suggests that the authors of the 1994 HDR may be alluding to Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech without literally citing that presentation.

Soon after his arrival in the US, Szyk was inspired by Roosevelt's 1941 " Four Freedoms " State of the Union speech to illustrate the Four Freedoms, preceding Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms by two years ; these were used as poster stamps during the war, and later illustrated a Four Freedoms Award which was presented to Harry Truman, George Marshall, and Herbert H. Lehman.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

This was meant to fulfill President Roosevelt's promise to Chiang Kai-shek to begin bombing operations against Japan by November 1944.

It was essential to his success that Ike express his opposition to Roosevelt's policy at Yalta and against Truman's policies in Korea and China, matters in which he had once participated.

They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >

Abbott was a constant advocate of social reform, and was an advocate of Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism for almost 20 years.

Friedman was initially unable to find academic employment, so during 1935, he followed his friend W. Allen Wallis to Washington, where Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was " a lifesaver " for many young economists.

It later became known that Stalin was actually aware of the atomic bomb before Truman was, as he had multiple spies that had infiltrated the Manhattan Project from very early on ( notably Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall, and David Greenglass ), while Truman had only learned about the weapon after Roosevelt's death.

Following the lead of President Roosevelt's New Deal in the United States, Bennett, under the advice of William Duncan Herridge, who was both Canada's ambassador to the United States and Bennett's brother-in-law, the government eventually began to follow the Americans ' lead.

Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Roosevelt's carefully researched book was comparable to modern doctoral dissertations, complete with drawings of individual and combined ship maneuvers, charts depicting the differences in iron throw weights of cannon shot between American and British forces, and analyses of the differences between British and American leadership down to the ship-to-ship level.

Published after Roosevelt's graduation from college, The Naval War of 1812 was praised for its scholarship and style.

In Roosevelt's own account, The Rough Riders, " after General Young was struck down with the fever, Wood took charge of the brigade.

But Pennsylvania was Roosevelt's only eastern state ; in the Midwest, he carried Michigan, Minnesota and South Dakota ; in the West, California and Washington ; he did not win any southern states.

His family and supporters threw their support to Roosevelt's old military companion, General Leonard Wood, who was ultimately defeated by Taft supporter Warren G. Harding.

The Roosevelt Memorial Association ( now the Theodore Roosevelt Association ) or " TRA ", was founded in 1920 to preserve Roosevelt's legacy.

A quote from Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive Party platform was cited as an epigram by Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, in his 2006 manifesto: " Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Famed fictional gunslinger Morgan Kane was Roosevelt's bodyguard when Roosevelt was a general, and Kane worked as a Pinkerton special agent.

He was known as President Roosevelt's unofficial Ambassador in NY and often entertained foreign statesmen.