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...Such replacement was not always unusual — Abraham Lincoln had two vice-presidents and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had three....
...And finally, if you are thinking of reading the new Walter Isaacson book on Elon Musk, you can check out my FT review here. Richard Waters responds That’s a lot of big questions, Rana....
...Walter’s book lays out America’s possible roads to dystopia with impressive concision....
...“Whereas [Bauhaus founder Walter] Gropius removed all the history books from the library to somewhere dark and difficult to find.” The 1960s ethic was to forget history, to begin anew....
...He had been brought up a Democrat — his parents were Roosevelt New Dealers — and was known to have voted for John Kennedy in 1960 and Jimmy Carter in 1976....
...Whether dog walkers, showgirls or household names (pictured here is boxer Walter Cartier, star of Day of the Fight), the subjects radiate an unmistakable intensity of character and purpose....
...He would spend a few days at Walter Reed military medical centre “out of an abundance of caution”, the White House said....
...Last year, the president paid an unannounced visit to Walter Reed hospital just outside Washington DC....
...Instead, he assesses US presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt onwards, on intentions, means and outcomes. Three books on the moral purpose of US policy Do Morals Matter?...
...By their own admission, they went beyond Walter Bagehot’s rule for stopping liquidity crises: lend freely but at penalty rates, to solvent borrowers and against good collateral only....
...Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush (senior and junior) have passed through the encampment; Henry Kissinger is a regular....
...Notable members Theodore Roosevelt (US president), Thomas Nast (satirist), William Cullen Bryant (poet and journalist)....
...commentator Walter Lippmann, whom she credits as the first prominent figure to use “American dream” — as well as the editorial and letters pages of newspapers across the heartland....
...Roula Khalaf, deputy editor of the FT I loved Walter Kempowski’s All for Nothing (Granta, RRP£8.99), a masterpiece of a novel recently translated from German....
...In June 1939 her mother wrote to her of one she enjoyed in the US with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: “My Darling Lilibet . . ....
...Crillon’s mansion was turned into a hotel in 1909 by architect Walter-André Destailleur and its guest book ranges from Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito to Charlie Chaplin, Andy...
...It was Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet that simultaneously embodied both American liberty and empire....
...“Usually you see speed when the nation tends to be in terrible crisis like Franklin Roosevelt in the Great Depression....
...I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience,” he quipped, prompting laughter from Walter Mondale, his 56-year-old opponent....
...In the 20th century, both Roosevelts were, in their different ways, powerful practitioners....
...Vidal’s early years brought him in contact with the likes of Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt; he walked his blind grandfather on to the floor of the US Senate, and had the same stepfather as Jacqueline...
...As a president, he had the greatest political acumen since Roosevelt.” Acting was a vocation for Cranston but an inevitable one. His parents, Joseph Cranston and Audrey Sell, were both actors....
...the architects of the United States’ postwar golden age – men like George C Marshall, Dean Acheson and George Kennan, in books such as The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas....
...Roosevelt’s administration implemented in the 1930s....
...It influenced Walter Lippmann, the movement’s voice in journalism – one of the first to set strict standards in factual reporting....
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