Franklin D Roosevelt, Under-Secretary for the Navy in the Wilson administration, claimed to have personally written the new constitution.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

John Nance Garner, who served as Vice President from 1933 to 1941 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, claimed that the Vice Presidency " isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

One witness, Alice Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, claimed that trays " with bottles containing every imaginable brand of whiskey stood about.

He also claimed to commune with the spirit of the late President Roosevelt.

There was a resulting national call for reform, but Roosevelt claimed that it was legitimate to accept large contributions if there were no implied obligation.

President Theodore Roosevelt opened the fair via telegraph, but did not attend personally until after the election in November 1904, as he claimed he did not want to use the fair for political purposes.

During his presidential campaign, Roosevelt claimed that private utilities had " selfish purposes " and said, " Never shall the federal government part with its sovereignty or with its control of its power resources while I'm president of the United States.

After returning to the Roosevelt in May, Peary in June began weeks of further agonizing travel by heading west along the shore of Ellesmere, discovering Cape Colgate, from the summit of which he claimed in his 1907 publications he had seen a previously undiscovered far-north " Crocker Land " to the northwest on June 24 of 1906.

) Likewise Roosevelt initially claimed the Doolittle Raid came from Shangri-La ; this later inspired the name of the aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La.

Kennedy notes that after the 1933 Banking Act became law Roosevelt “ claimed full credit, to the amusement or outrage of contemporary and hindsighted observers .”

" And in his State of the Union address in 1904, U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt claimed the right and duty to intervene in the case of crimes committed " on a vast scale ".

A meeting between MacArthur, Nimitz, and President Roosevelt helped confirm the Philippines as a strategic target, but had less to do with the final decision to invade the Philippines than is sometimes claimed.

It was also the location of the greatest victory for the Rough Riders as claimed by the press and its new commander, the future Vice-President and later President, Theodore Roosevelt, who was ( posthumously ) awarded the Medal of Honor in 2001 for his actions in Cuba.

Soon after the coin's release, it was claimed that Sinnock borrowed his design of Roosevelt from a bas relief created by African American sculptor Selma Burke, unveiled at the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington, D. C. in September 1945.

Elliott ’ s New York Times obituary claimed that he had been twice wounded, and his widow had written ( I love a Roosevelt, 1965 ) that he had received four purple hearts (“ for each of the four times he was wounded ”).

While the veracity of the Roosevelt relation to the phrase has never been historically established in the press of local papers that covered Roosevelt's October 21 visit and one of his coffee drinking episodes, without doubt, the Maxwell House Company, itself, for many years, claimed in its own advertising that the Roosevelt story was true.

The second cable on August 2 – 3, 1944 was a description, but not a transcript, of a message from Churchill ( Boar ) to Roosevelt ( Captain ), which Homer claimed to have decrypted.

Theodore Roosevelt, for instance, claimed that the president was permitted to do whatever was not explicitly prohibited by the law — in direct contrast to his immediate successor, William Howard Taft.

By 1959, Cura claimed to have taken over 250, 000 tele-snaps and that sets of his tele-snaps had been “ presented to and graciously accepted by the Royal Family ; Their Majesties the King of Denmark ; the late King of Norway ; Queen Juliana of the Netherlands ; Ex-president Auriol of France ; Earl Attlee ; Sir Winston Churchill ; Mr Charles Chaplin ; Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt ” as well as a wide range of newspapers and periodicals.

He claimed that in his privileged position, he learned what he called " the ultimate secret of Pearl Harbor " ( that U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had incited the Japanese into the attack ).

Though reportedly possessing poor distance vision, Roosevelt nevertheless claimed a German fighter shot down out of control on July 10, 1918.

The book generated significant publicity after The New York Times reported on its front page that Schiff, in the book, claimed to have had an affair with Franklin D. Roosevelt.

This was the very sort of legislation that Roosevelt himself had in mind.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.

Believing devoutly as they did in Anglo-Saxon institutions, it was important to both Roosevelt and Churchill that the Poles should have them.

The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy.

Chauncey Depew, one-time runner-up for the Republican Presidential nomination, was attending a convention at Saratoga, where he was scheduled to nominate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York when he noticed that the temporary chairman was a man he had never met.

After the preliminary business affair was finished Depew arose and delivered the convincing speech that clinched the nomination for Roosevelt.

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

No wonder Khrushchev's first message to President Kennedy was a wistful desire for the return of the `` good old days '' of Roosevelt.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).

In 1942, it was converted to a presidential retreat by Franklin D. Roosevelt and renamed " Shangri-La " ( for the fictional Himalayan paradise ).

The response to this was President Roosevelt calling a conference of thirteen school leaders to come up with a solution to the problems that the game of football was facing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, through General Stilwell, privately made it clear that they preferred that the French not reacquire French Indochina ( modern day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos ) after the war was over.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Casablanca was an important strategic port during World War II and hosted the Casablanca Conference in 1943, in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war.

As a supporter of progressive policies, Hughes was able to play on the popularity of Theodore Roosevelt and weaken the power of the state's conservative Republican officials.