It was assumed that Marshall would become the Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord, but Roosevelt selected Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander.

Because of Roosevelt ’ s confidence in the Navy, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was specifically selected as the site of the negotiations and charged with the delicate responsibility for providing the diplomatic protocols for peace.

President Theodore Roosevelt selected Admiral Robley D. Evans to host His Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Prussia brother of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II.

In December 1942, Roosevelt selected Brown to take over as administrator of the Office of Price Administration, replacing Leon Henderson, whose tenure as administrator was listed as one of the major reasons for Democratic losses in the 1942 elections.

Roosevelt also selected Bullock as one of 18 officers ( others included Frederick Russell Burnham, James R. Garfield, and John M. Parker ) to raise a volunteer infantry division, Roosevelt's World War I volunteers, for service in France in 1917.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and President Calvin Coolidge selected George_Washington | Washington, Thomas_Jefferson | Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham_Lincoln | Lincoln to appear on Mount Rushmore.

In December 1999 she was selected by United States President Bill Clinton as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.

Following the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, DNC chairman James Farley was selected as U. S. Postmaster General.

When the name was being selected for the new high school, the final two remaining choices were Century and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1940 Osborn was selected by Franklin Roosevelt to chair the Civilian Advisory Committee on Selective Service.

This did not happen and the presidency, having been damaged by three late nineteenth and early twentieth century assassinations ( Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley ) and one impeachment ( Johnson ), reasserted its political dominance by the early twentieth century through such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

In March 1906, Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield submitted a report to President Roosevelt, alleging large-scale rebating in Standard Oil shipments.

One son, James R. Garfield, followed him into politics and became Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Other presidents to speak on the grounds include James Garfield, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Nixon.

Several of their children were also born in Hiram, including Harry Augustus Garfield, former president of Williams College, and James Rudolph Garfield, who became the 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior under Theodore Roosevelt.

The Green Line provides access to, among other destinations, the Garfield Park Conservatory ( Conservatory-Central Park Drive ), United Center ( Ashland ) James R. Thompson Center, Richard J. Daley Center and City Hall-Cook County Building ( Clark / Lake ), Millennium Park ( Randolph / Wabash and Madison / Wabash ), the Art Institute of Chicago ( Adams / Wabash ), the Auditorium Building of Roosevelt University, Museum Campus and Soldier Field ( Roosevelt / Wabash ), the Illinois Institute of Technology and U. S. Cellular Field ( White Sox Park ) ( 35th – Bronzeville – IIT ), the University of Chicago ( Garfield ) and Kennedy-King College ( Halsted / 63rd ).

Garfield with Theodore Roosevelt

Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, James Garfield and Grover Cleveland all have visited Ballast.

Ballinger's appointment was a disappointment to conservationists, who interpreted the replacement of Garfield as a break with Roosevelt administration policies on conservationism.

Trevor Garfield is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Today, although it remains home to the East Los Angeles College football team, it is best known as the site of the annual Garfield High School – Roosevelt High School football game, better known as the East Los Angeles Classic, which has been responsible for the Stadium's largest crowds, numbering over 25, 000.

Lincoln High School teacher Sal Castro, http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / Sal_Castro, along with student leaders from from the five public schools in East Los Angeles ( Roosevelt, Wilson, Lincoln, Garfield, and Belmont ) such as Paula Crisostomo, college students like Moctesuma Esparza, and groups such as United Mexican American Students ( UMAS ) and the Brown Berets, developed thirty-six demands to bring to the Board of Education.

An ad hoc committee, UMAS, and college students established Blowout committees at Roosevelt, Lincoln and Garfield high schools, plus a central coordinating committee.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

Roosevelt is consistently rated by scholars as one of the top three U. S. Presidents.

" There could not be a finer one ," asserted Franklin D. Roosevelt, then a rising star from New York.

* FDR ( Franklin D. Roosevelt ) mentions that this is one of his favorite poems in the 1958 play Sunrise at Campobello ( play ) ( Act 2, Scene 2 ).

It became a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States and one of its longest-standing tenets, and would be invoked by many U. S. statesmen and several U. S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and others.

Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever ; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.

Roosevelt was also one of only three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Roosevelt has consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U. S. Presidents.

Roosevelt was instrumental in preparing the Navy for the Spanish – American War and was an enthusiastic supporter of testing the U. S. military in combat, at one point saying, " I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one ".

Out of all the Rough Riders, Roosevelt was the only one with a horse, as the troopers ' horses had been left behind because transport ships were scarce.

However, he was attentive to the law, so he launched 90 antitrust suits, including one against the largest corporation, U. S. Steel, for an acquisition that Roosevelt had personally approved.

Roosevelt, stepping up his attack on judges, carried nine of the states that held preferential primaries, LaFollette took two, and Taft only one.

Roosevelt was one of the first Presidents to make conservation a national issue.

About African Americans, Roosevelt said, " I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the first presidents whose voice was recorded for posterity.

Paine became so reviled that he could still be maligned as a " filthy little atheist " by Theodore Roosevelt over one hundred years later.

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.

The White House is one of the first government buildings in Washington that was made wheelchair-accessible, with modifications having been made during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who needed to use a wheelchair because of his paraplegia.

Of Taft's appointment, Roosevelt said, " If only there were three of you ; I could appoint one of you to the Court, one to the War Department and one to the Philippines.

On his return from Europe, Roosevelt openly broke with Taft in one of the notable political feuds of the 20th century.