Roosevelt told Ambassador Nomura that he would like to see more details of Konoe's proposal, and he suggested that Juneau, Alaska, might be a good spot for a meeting.

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

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.

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

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

The former U. S. Navy facilities at Roosevelt Roads, Vieques, and Sabana Seca have been deactivated and partially turned over to the local government.

The Spanish – American War broke out in 1898 while Roosevelt was, effectively, running the Department of the Navy.

While at Harvard, Roosevelt began a systematic study of the role played by the nascent US Navy in the War of 1812, largely completing two chapters of a book he would publish after graduation.

Urged by Roosevelt's close friend, Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897.

Because of the inactivity of Secretary of the Navy John D. Long, this gave Roosevelt control over the department.

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 ".

Upon the 1898 Declaration of War launching the Spanish – American War, Roosevelt resigned from the Navy Department.

The United States Navy named two ships for Roosevelt: the, a submarine that was in commission from 1961 to 1982 ; and the, an aircraft carrier that has been on active duty in the Atlantic Fleet since 1986.

* Roosevelt, Theodore, The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans ( 1882 ) ( New York: The Modern Library, 1999 ).

In the 1920 election, Harding ran against Democratic Ohio Governor James M. Cox, whose running mate was Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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.

In 1940, Colonel Frank Knox, newly appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy, offered Stevenson a position as Principal Attorney and special assistant.

Johnson reported back to Roosevelt, to the Navy leaders, and to Congress that conditions were deplorable and unacceptable.

After repeated attacks by German submarines on U. S. ships, Roosevelt announced on 11 September 1941 that he had ordered the U. S. Navy to attack German and Italian war vessels in the " waters which we deem necessary for our defense ".

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Bonaparte Secretary of the Navy.

In May 2000, the Navy completed the transfer of a former housing area called Roosevelt Terrace using an " economic development conveyance "; a method to accelerate the transfer of BRAC facilities back to civilian communities for their economic benefit.

The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

From 1904-1905 he served as Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt.

Charles Bonaparte was Secretary of the Navy and later Attorney General in the Theodore Roosevelt administration, and founded the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

His cousin, George von L. Meyer, was Secretary of the Navy under President Theodore Roosevelt and served as an ambassador to several countries.

Wood's second in command was former assistant secretary of the United States Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, a man who had pushed for American involvement in Cuban independence.

Before training began, Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt used his political influence gained as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to ensure that ' his ' volunteer cavalry regiment would be properly equipped to serve as any regular unit of the U. S. Army.