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.

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 ".

At the Democratic National Convention, Long was instrumental in keeping the delegations of several wavering states in the Roosevelt camp.

Collier was the guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on a bear hunt in Sharkey County and was instrumental in the birth of the teddy bear legend .< ref > Buchannan, Minor Ferris.

He was instrumental in pushing Kansas Governor Alf Landon for the Republican nomination in 1936 ; Landon was defeated in the general election by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt created Pinnacles National Monument with the power given him in the Antiquities Act of 1906 to commemorate the people and organizations instrumental to the creation and early protection of the park.

McCloskey busied himself primarily with a visitation of the entire diocese, and was also instrumental in the conversion of Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, and of James Roosevelt Bayley, later Archbishop of Baltimore.

Ralph Bunche along with Eleanor Roosevelt were considered instrumental in the creation and adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

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.

Roosevelt was instrumental in the forming of the American Legion in 1919.

He was also a member of the Banking and Currency Committee, and in this capacity was instrumental in helping Franklin D. Roosevelt achieve his desired wage and farm price controls.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had long envisioned a scenic road through the eastern Hudson Valley, was instrumental in making it a reality as a way to provide access to existing and planned state parks in the region.

The breed is named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, although he never owned nor was he instrumental in developing the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier.

He was instrumental in the nominations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 and John F. Kennedy in 1960, and became known as the “ maker of presidents ”.

Farley ( a native New Yorker ) was instrumental in the political careers of Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt ( serving as campaign manager to both ).

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

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

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

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.

McCreight urged President Roosevelt to make a public statement to school children about trees and the destruction of American forests.

On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day Proclamation to the School Children of the United States about the importance of trees and that forestry deserves to be taught in our schools.

** FDR ( TV series ), a 1965 documentary series about Roosevelt with Charlton Heston as the voice of F. D. R

** FDR: That Man in the White House, a play by Dore Schary about Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was concerned about American intelligence deficiencies.

While Roosevelt ’ s ‘ walk softly and carry a big stick ’ as well as the Canal Company ’ s apartheid administrative policies, early on, have been the subject of much criticism, the fact is that, beyond the financial injection to the country ’ s economy and workforce, the changes brought about by the canal venture were largely positive for Panama.

He did play him a few notes of a new song he had been working on ; " It's not for the movie ... it's a song about times past — about Mrs. Roosevelt and Joe DiMaggio and stuff.

" Nichols advised Simon, " It's now about Mrs. Robinson, not Mrs. Roosevelt.

For the rest of his life, Roosevelt never spoke of his wife Alice publicly or privately and did not write about her in his autobiography.

When Roosevelt realized that lowering the tariff would risk severe tensions inside the Republican Party — pitting producers ( manufacturers and farmers ) against merchants and consumers — he stopped talking about the issue.

Despite his new doubts about Taft's leadership abilities, Roosevelt still was friendly towards him and was in favor of his re-election.

In all, Roosevelt wrote about 18 books ( each in several editions ), including his Autobiography, The Rough Riders History of the Naval War of 1812, and others on subjects such as ranching, explorations, and wildlife.

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

* August 2 – Albert Einstein writes to President Franklin Roosevelt about developing the atomic bomb using uranium.

Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, reluctantly agreed to accept Truman as his vice-presidential candidate to preserve party unity.

Dewey nearly included, in his campaign, claims that Roosevelt knew ahead of time about the attack on Pearl Harbor ; Dewey added, " and instead of being re-elected he should be impeached ".

Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to make decisions about postwar Asia: Japan returns all territory, independent Korea.

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation estimated its population was about 12, 000 in 2007.

The story is a Depression-era political satire set in New York City, about Washington politics and political figures, such as President Franklin Roosevelt.

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article " The Fall in America 1937 ", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain ( 1938 ).

" Similarly, Stein commented at 1938 on Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky: " There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.