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...The early 1900s decisions that prevented the states and federal government from protecting workers, women and enacting the New Deal prompted Franklin Delano Roosevelt to try to “pack” the court with extra...
...If you are rightly sceptical of the Kissinger example (I would argue that none of the outrages on Kissinger’s charge sheet was necessary to achieve Détente), please consider Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose...
...As Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Treasury secretary, he financed both the New Deal and America’s participation in the second world war (when he authored a plan for the deindustrialisation of a defeated Germany...
...Janan Ganesh’s observation that only moderates can govern from the left (“Biden shows that only moderates can govern from the left”, April 7) is sound and his example of patrician Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...The flagship spending package cements a leftward shift in US politics and economics, says our weekend Big Read, carrying echoes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Depression, and Lyndon Johnson...
...I mean, FDR [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] had polio and was in a wheelchair but he was perfectly capable of being president and getting us through World War II....
...In this book, Edwards analyses the default that followed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1933 decision to devalue the dollar against gold....
...In it, the isolationist aviator Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency in 1940, trouncing Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
...His cousin Franklin, the 32nd president, did have one (Delano) and thus has gone down in history as “FDR”. Donald Morrison, Sciences Po, Paris, France...
...Kuznets had been asked by US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to come up with an accurate picture of a post-crash America that was trapped in seemingly interminable recession....
...That is the case with Four Freedoms Park, the new memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was unveiled earlier this month, not in Washington, DC but in the president’s home town, New York City....
...This might offer Mr Obama some degree of reassurance, even though the sluggish recovery is his main political vulnerability: no president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won re-election with the unemployment...
...There were few expressions of hatred or untruths left unused against Franklin Delano Roosevelt by the Republicans and the entrenched corporate interests they represented....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt 90. Simone de Beauvoir 91. Josip Tito, president of Yugoslavia, 1953-80 92. Sarah Palin 93. Michael Manley, Jamaican PM, 1972-80 and 1989-92 94. Pope John Paul II 95....
...Although New York state is the nation’s third largest, it has not sent one of its politicians to the White House since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933....
...Only George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also forged in crises, are in his league as US presidents. In 1860 he won the election for the new anti-slavery Republican party....
...Kennedy and Martin Luther King in his stump speech, Mr Edwards points to Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “He was hated and vilified by corporate America,” Mr Edwards says of FDR....
...The two classes of stock were a ruse devised by Henry to minimise the high inheritance taxes introduced by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935....
...Past national traumas in American history have been dealt with by leaders able to organise their policies to secure a sound governing majority: Abraham Lincoln in and after the civil war, Franklin Delano...
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