Hints and tips:
...Theodore Roosevelt, who was out of office and scheming to get back into power, is portrayed as a bigoted warmonger....
...Franklin D Roosevelt, president from 1933, spoke out occasionally against Hitler’s Nazis and Japanese militarism, warning in 1937 that the “contagion” of war could threaten the US....
...There was no shortage of artists and museum curators at the fair, while Hollywood celebrities were out in force, including Owen Wilson, Elijah Wood and Gwyneth Paltrow....
...Henry Sr helped bankroll the presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson; Henry Jr would marry a member of the Lehman family....
...People forget the golf-playing innocuousness of Dwight Eisenhower, the caution and barely middlebrow inner life of Franklin Roosevelt....
...In July 1941, Franklin Roosevelt’s administration imposed an oil embargo on Japan. Five months later Japan attacked Pearl Harbor....
...At the end of Taft’s first term, Roosevelt challenged him first for the Republican nomination and then the presidency; both men ultimately ended up losing to Woodrow Wilson....
...Roosevelt’s health would deteriorate dramatically as president as he suffered from heart disease....
...after war under Woodrow Wilson and scandal with Warren Harding....
...Franklin D Roosevelt hid the full extent of his polio, while Woodrow Wilson remained in office for two years after suffering a severe stroke....
...And in the FT, don’t miss Camilla Cavendish on how Boris Johnson is trying to channel Franklin D Roosevelt, my colleague Martin Sandbu’s piece on whether Covid could become a turning point in economic polarisation...
...The heyday of America’s spirit came in the populist era of the 1890s and early 1900s, and during Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal....
...Michael Wilson, chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, points out that more than two-thirds of purchasing managers' indices around the world are now below the 50 mark, indicating that activity is...
...His grandfather was President Woodrow Wilson’s US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, while his father served as Franklin D Roosevelt’s Treasury secretary for nine years....
...A good specimen is Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt....
...Thankfully, Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry Truman did not make the same mistake in the 1940s. Unlike Wilson, they knew the value of bipartisanship in foreign policy....
...This was certainly true of Woodrow Wilson who waited until April 1917 to enter the first world war; Roosevelt zigged and zagged until the Pearl Harbor disaster finally made war with Japan inevitable in 1941...
...As anticipated, when finally revealed, presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson — and the Democrats in general, including Roosevelt — denounced the plan as a scheme “to place the currency and credit system...
...Many familiar names are there in both: Mill, Lincoln, Gladstone, Wilson, Hobhouse, Roosevelt, Beveridge....
...On July 2 1932, Franklin D Roosevelt broke with precedent and flew to the Democratic convention in Chicago to accept in person the party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate....
...“America first” was first popularised by Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 presidential campaign alongside the claim “he kept us out of war”....
...In 1935, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt battled the Great Depression, his administration struck a New Deal for addicts and opened the first Federal “narcotics farm”....
...Way back in 1919, Woodrow Wilson was the first US president to ever travel to Italy, seeing Benedict XV while there....
...Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his presidency, while Franklin D Roosevelt had polio. Hillary Clinton will hope her illness does not damage her political chances....
...In June 1939 her mother wrote to her of one she enjoyed in the US with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: “My Darling Lilibet . . ....
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