He told Grew that he was prepared to travel to meet Roosevelt on a moment's notice.

Roosevelt told the Navy worldwide to prepare for war, ordered ammunition and supplies, brought in experts, and went to Congress asking for authority to recruit as many sailors as he wanted, thus moving the nation toward war.

It was popularly known as the " Bull Moose Party ", which got its name after Roosevelt told reporters, " I'm as fit as a bull moose.

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.

Roosevelt told his cabinet that this criticism moved him to end the program and replace it with the WPA which would have long-term value for the society, in addition to short-term benefits for the unemployed.

Roosevelt told Glass he approved most of the bill, including the separation of commercial and investment banking, that he shared Glass ’ s desire for a “ unified banking system ” with state and national banks regulated by a single authority, but that he only approved countywide, not statewide, branch banking, and that he opposed deposit insurance.

" While incarcerated on Welfare Island ( now known as Roosevelt Island ), she dined with the warden and his wife ; she told reporters that she had worn her silk panties while serving time.

In August 1953, the Shah finally agreed to Mossadegh's overthrow, after Roosevelt told that the U. S. would proceed with him or without him and formally dismissed the Prime Minister in a written decree, an act that had been made part of the constitution during the Constitution Assembly of 1949, convened under martial law, at which time the power of the monarchy was increased in various ways by the Shah himself.

That April, after the death of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, former Vice-President Harry S. Truman was told about the secret wartime project for the first time.

Hoskins reports the king said Weizmann told him the promise of payment would be " guaranteed by President Roosevelt ".

Hull told Roosevelt that the plan would inspire last-ditch resistance and cost thousands of American lives.

In a clash that had career consequences, Wiley told President Theodore Roosevelt that " Everyone who ate that sweet corn was deceived.

In 1934, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt.

All told, Meyer reported to the committee that he had spent $ 5, 083. 79 ($ in today's dollars ) on entertainment for Roosevelt.

As Longworth later recalled, her stepmother once angrily told her that if Longworth's mother, Alice Lee Roosevelt, had lived, she would have bored her father to death.

When Roosevelt told Morgenthau he was thinking of raising the price of gold by 21 cents, his entourage asked him why.

President Roosevelt told a press conference that the League seemed founded " to uphold two of the Ten Commandments ," stopping at protecting property and drawing no inspiration from the command to " Love thy neighbor as thyself.

Roosevelt told his father that he was bringing him back literally " dead or alive " and if he died, he would be an even bigger burden to the expedition.

Forrestal told Roosevelt that white units of munitions loaders were to be added to the rotation in order " to avoid any semblance of discrimination against negroes ".

Following his loss, Eleanor Roosevelt told local journalist Murray Kempton, who published her remarks many years later in 1991 when he was a columnist for Newsday, " I told Carmine I would get him for what he did to Franklin, and get him I did.

Sam's inept performance as a White House tour guide in the pilot episode may have been inspired by former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, who told the Chicago Tribune that despite having to give tours on a regular basis, he did not know whether the Roosevelt Room was named after Franklin or Teddy Roosevelt, saying, " I haven't gotten caught yet, but I've made up a few things.

Roosevelt had been told that the area was actually extinct in terms of eruptive activity.

" A report written by Pacelli the following year for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and filed with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy declared that the Church regarded compromise with the Third Reich as " out of the question ".

Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ; he served as United States Ambassador to India under Kennedy.

" By March 21, Roosevelt's Ambassador to the USSR Averell Harriman cabled Roosevelt that " we must come clearly to realize that the Soviet program is the establishment of totalitarianism, ending personal liberty and democracy as we know it.

He was appointed as United States Ambassador to Mexico during the administrations of U. S. Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

Swanee Grace Hunt ( born May 1, 1950 ), Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, is the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program ( WAPPP ) at the Kennedy School, and former United States Ambassador to Austria.

He was also a close friend and supporter of President Franklin Roosevelt and served as his Ambassador to Mexico.

President Roosevelt appointed his former boss at the Department of the Navy as United States Ambassador to Mexico.

Some say his support was instrumental in winning the presidential nomination for Franklin D. Roosevelt, but he broke with Roosevelt after the President refused to appoint him Ambassador to Ireland.

After retiring from the Navy he was appointed by his close friend President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of Puerto Rico and, in his most controversial role, as Ambassador to Vichy France, which was an ally of Nazi Germany, 1940-42.

Harriman served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as special envoy to Europe and served as the U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and U. S. Ambassador to Britain.

Upon hearing of Bonnet ' appointment, the American Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, Jr. wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt about Bonnet: I don't think you'll like him.

During the same ceremony, Ambassador Bullitt stated that " France and the United States were united in war and peace ", leading to a storm of criticism by American isolationists and a statement from President Franklin D. Roosevelt that it was " 100 per cent wrong " the U. S. would join a " stop-Hitler bloc ".

The Straus family had several influential members including Straus's grandson Roger W. Straus, Jr., who started the publishing company of Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; his brother, Isidor Straus, who perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912, served as a representative from New York City's 15th District, and was co-owner of the department store R. H. Macy & Co. along with another brother Nathan ; and nephew Jesse Isidor Straus, confidant of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ambassador to France from 1933 to 1936.

He was once recevied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his send-off party was attended by the likes of Ambassador Hans Luther, Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan, Justice Pierce Butler, Postmaster General James Farley, Secretary Henry A. Wallace, and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes.

He was also appointed as United States Ambassador to Belgium by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was Minister to Luxembourg during the difficult period 1944 – 1946 in this country, the beginning of the Belgian royal question concerning King Leopold III of Belgium.

Bryant, her mother, was the widow of John Reed who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World while living in Moscow through the Bolshevik revolution ; while Bullitt, her father, served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In subsequent years through the success of the Olympia Muldoon would again gain national notice as he treated such notables there as U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Hodges Choate, publisher Ralph Pulitzer, Senator Chauncey Depew, Major General J. Franklin Bell, essayist Elbert Hubbard novelist Theodore Dreiser and Secretary of State Elihu Root, who was sent to Muldoon by President Roosevelt.

The publication of The Gremlins by Random House consisted of a 50, 000 run for the U. S. market with Dahl ordering 50 copies for himself as promotional material, handing them out to everyone he knew, including the British Ambassador in Washington Lord Halifax, and First Lady of the U. S. Eleanor Roosevelt who loved to read it to her grandchildren.

Betsey Roosevelt Whitney ( May 18, 1908, Baltimore, Maryland – March 25, 1998, Manhasset, New York ), was an American philanthropist, the ex-wife of James Roosevelt ( the eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt ), and later wife of American millionaire and U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, John Hay Whitney.

Adlai E. Stevenson II, Ambassador to the United Nations and twice a Democratic nominee for President, received a short, but polite ovation before introducing a memorial film the same day for former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who had died on November 7, 1962.