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.

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.

He had been a registered Republican before the war, though in 1912 he had supported Theodore Roosevelt's " Bull Moose " Progressive Party.

He had worked on Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaigns, including the 1940 presidential election against Wendell Willkie.

Consequently, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee assumed leadership following Winston Churchill, whose Soviet policy since the early 1940s had differed considerably from former U. S. President Roosevelt's, with Churchill believing Stalin to be a " devil "- like tyrant leading a vile system.

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.

During the post-World War II period, the United States had a highest tax bracket of 70 % during Roosevelt's presidency and about 90 % during Eisenhower's presidency.

" Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches ( 76 mm ) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry Truman had been Vice President only three months when he became President ; he was never informed of Franklin Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while Vice President.

As a member of Roosevelt's cabinet, he had declared that his future ambition was to serve on the Supreme Court, not the White House.

Taft, in fashioning his cabinet, showed also that he was not unwilling to depart to some degree from Roosevelt's progressivism ; he named an anti-progressive, Philander Chase Knox Secretary of State, who had primary influence over other appointments.

Roosevelt's argument was that the " political rights " guaranteed by the constitution and the Bill of Rights had " proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.

In 1948, after the college had moved to the Auditorium Building, Washington was elected the third president of Roosevelt's student council.

Roosevelt's only hope at the convention was to form a " stop-Taft " alliance with La Follette, but Roosevelt had alienated La Follette, and the alliance could not form.

At Roosevelt's request, the two-thirds rule, which had given the South a veto power, was repealed.

Willkie had first come to public attention as an articulate critic of Roosevelt's attempt to break up electrical power monopolies.

Although a growing number of the party's conservatives — especially in the South — had grown increasingly skeptical of Roosevelt's economic and social policies, few of them dared to publicly oppose Roosevelt, and he was renominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago.

Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the President to impose sanctions selectively.

In spite of widespread speculation that Roberts only agreed to join the court's majority in upholding New Deal legislation, such as the Social Security Act, during the spring of 1937 because of the court packing plan, Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision " in the Parrish case and that the delayed announcement of the decision created the false impression that the Court had retreated under fire.

* During the first two years of this act being in effect there was no Vice President, because Harry S. Truman had become President upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945.

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.

Special attention is paid to Roosevelt's New Deal and the lasting effect it has had on the U. S. government.

While Roosevelt's experiments in social engineering were popular and effective, the full effect of the forces Ward set in motion came to bear half a century after his death, in the Great Society programs of President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam war.

Chief Justice Hughes, however, wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision ," but due to the delayed announcement of its decision the Court was characterized as retreating under fire.

Chief Justice Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal " had not the slightest effect on our court's decision ," but due to the delayed announcement of its decision the Court was characterized as retreating under fire.

To settle the dispute, in 1927 American explorer George Miller Dyott led a second trip down the river, confirming Roosevelt's discoveries.

In 1933, Bonnet was a prominent member of the French delegation to the London Conference, where he was a leading critic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's actions during the conference.

While historically presidents initiated the process for going to war, critics have charged that there have been several conflicts in which presidents did not get official declarations, including Theodore Roosevelt's military move into Panama in 1903, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasions of Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1990.

The surprise Republican candidate was maverick businessman Wendell Willkie, a dark horse who crusaded against Roosevelt's perceived failure to end the Depression and his supposed eagerness for war.

Research conducted for the 100th anniversary of the Treaty in 1905 explored participants ' diaries, local newspapers and government documents to explain the causes of the war, the military conflict on land and sea, President Theodore Roosevelt's back channel diplomacy, and the peace negotiations hosted by the United States Navy and the State of New Hampshire, as the nearby city of Portsmouth acted as host to the diplomats.

Despite Japan's demands for the entirety of Sakhalin and a war indemnity, and Russia's outright refusal, peace was attained through the actions of the participants, including Roosevelt's back-channel communications.

Lesser known, but still historically notable pit bulls include Helen Keller's family dog " Sir Thomas ", Buster Brown's dog " Tige ", Horatio Jackson's dog " Bud ", President Theodore Roosevelt's Pit Bull terrier " Pete ", " Jack Brutus " who served for Company K, the First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the civil war and Sir Walter Scott's beloved " Wasp ".

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.

Although in later years the name was said to derive from logging, the team based its colours on Teddy Roosevelt's regiment in the Spanish-American War, which, with the date of the renaming, suggests that the name also comes from the war.

Some militants felt betrayed because Roosevelt's order applied only to banning discrimination within war industries and not the armed forces.

All the while, few fought more tenaciously against Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to enter the war in Europe.

However the United Mine Workers, who had taken an isolationist stand in the years leading up to the war and had opposed Roosevelt's reelection in 1940, left the CIO in 1942.

A fiscal conservative and disciple of Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, Chandler opposed parts of Roosevelt's New Deal and openly disagreed with the president's decision to prioritize European operations in World War II over the war in the Pacific.

He vociferously disagreed with Roosevelt's decision to prioritize European operations in World War II over the war in the Pacific.

Eventually the US and British political leadership made the decision to commit to an invasion of France in early 1944, but with a lower-priority Italian campaign reflecting Roosevelt's desire to keep U. S. troops active in the European theatre during 1943 and his attraction to the idea of eliminating Italy from the war.

The album also criticized President Roosevelt's unprecedented peacetime draft, insinuating that he was going to war for J. P. Morgan.

The United States was neutral, and Roosevelt's actions were circumscribed by neutrality legislation ; however, Roosevelt was a vehement anti-Nazi, an unequivocal supporter of the UK in the war, and personally close to Churchill.

Roosevelt's military advisers warned that if Japan changed the code, the US might have to go to war against Japan without being able to read the enemy's naval ciphers.

" The day was the 65th anniversary of the Japanese military's attack on Pearl Harbor, and the punchline of the strip refers to Franklin D. Roosevelt's " Infamy Speech " which requested from Congress a declaration of war against Japan.

As a write-in candidate, he received more than 180, 000 votes ( 29. 5 percent of the vote ) and lost to Harry Hines Woodring, later Franklin Delano Roosevelt's secretary of war.

Roosevelt's objectives were to negotiate the establishment of U. S. military bases in Liberia, secure Liberia's commitment to continue supplying the U. S. with natural rubber, urge the Liberian government to expel German citizens and persuade it to abandon its neutrality and declare war on the Axis powers.