Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

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.

The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.

* 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

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.

On 17 April the first camp, NF-1, Camp Roosevelt, was established at George Washington National Forest near Luray, Virginia.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

* 1906 – U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.

Roosevelt was deeply committed to conserving natural resources, and is considered to be the nation's first conservation President.

Roosevelt was concerned enough that the Uranium Committee was assembled, and awarded Columbia University the first nuclear power funding of US $ 6, 000.

In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal — a variety of programs designed to produce relief ( government jobs for the unemployed ), recovery ( economic growth ), and reform ( through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation ).

As an active military leader, Roosevelt implemented an overall war strategy on two fronts that ended in the defeat of the Axis Powers and the development of the world's first atom bomb.

In 1941, during the run-up to American involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt appointed LaGuardia first director of the new Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ).

Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.

Edmund Morris, in his biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, describes a young Roosevelt, newly elected to the State Assembly, walking into the House Chamber for the first time in this trendy, affected gait, somewhat to the amusement of the older and more rural Members who were present.

In 1925, Hugo founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the first television broadcasts.

Theodore Roosevelt appointed Dr. Hamilton Wright as the first Opium Commissioner of the United States in 1908.

* 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

* 1903 – President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.

A meeting for negotiation between United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Konoe was proposed for Honolulu, to commence as early as May.

He proposed a personal summit with Roosevelt – in the United States if necessary – to come to some understanding.

The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, frequently called the court-packing plan, was a legislative initiative to add more justices to the Supreme Court proposed by U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt shortly after his victory in the 1936 presidential election.

U. S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed the agency in June, 1943, to provide relief to areas liberated from Axis powers after World War II ended.

In 1933, Roosevelt proposed legislation creating the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ), a government agency with far-reaching influence that promised to bring flood control and cheap electricity to the impoverished Tennessee Valley.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

* Korea: In wartime talks, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed that Korea be placed under an American – Soviet trust administration.

Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture proposed two projects for the Island in his book " Delirious New York ": the Welfare Island Hotel and the Roosevelt Island Redevelopment Proposal ( both in 1975-76 ).

Wyandotte County Lake, in Kansas City, Kansas was a part of the New Deal Act proposed by President Roosevelt.

In December 1940 President Roosevelt proclaimed the U. S. would be the " Arsenal of Democracy " and proposed selling munitions to Britain and Canada.

Universal health care and national health insurance were first proposed by U. S President Theodore Roosevelt.

Vetoed by US President Theodore Roosevelt, the proposed State of Sequoyah did not receive federal recognition.

In November 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President and proposed his New Deal.

Fiske, as aide for operations in 1913 – 15 to Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt, proposed a radical reorganization of the Navy to make it a war-fighting instrument.

Barton had the good fortune that years earlier, Theodore Roosevelt had proposed a similar idea to Beebe, and Beebe approved of Barton's design.

* 1933-Sweeping new programs proposed under President Roosevelt take effect: the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civil Works Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Farm Credit Administration the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Public Works Administration, the National Industrial Recovery Act

President Theodore Roosevelt, who had a positive opinion of Japan, accepted the Agreement as proposed by Japan as an alternative to more formal, restrictive immigration legislation.

Roosevelt proposed adding more justices to the court and creating a mandatory retirement age ; the changes would allow him to appoint an overwhelming majority to the court who be more sympathetic to his agenda, ensuring the safety of legislation passed by his party.

After winning re-election in 1936, Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill, wherein the President could appoint an additional Justice for each sitting Justice over age 70.

During the signing of the plan, which coincided with the signing of a loan agreement, President Roosevelt proposed that they sign the plan first.

Roosevelt may have proposed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that three or four years elapse before full Korean independence ; Stalin demurred, saying that a shorter period of time would be desirable.

In the United States of America, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights, covering much the same grounds, during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944.

Letters would pour in following each of these " chats ," which helped pressure legislators to pass measures Roosevelt had proposed.