...This chapter examines cases in which political leaders and public figures told lies or engaged in deception as a pretext for fighting wars. The examples given here include William Randolph Hearst, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney. The chapter devotes particular...

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...This chapter focuses on the 1930s, a time when the poor had been the nation's most visible citizens, and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal had set out to relieve their suffering, to string beneath all Americans a social safety net, and to curb the worst imbalances of wealth and power. A decade later...

... again called into service during the Great Depression by both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. While President Hoover initiated this practice when he asked Congress to establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Banks, it was Franklin Roosevelt and his officials...

... of Versailles United Nations institutional performance James Polk Franklin Roosevelt war authority Mexican War World War II relational conception constitutional authority Since the founding, legislators have expressed anxiety that the presidency would use its structural independence and discretionary...

...This chapter examines American post-war conspiracy thinking. These discussions include President Franklin Roosevelt's concerns over American fascism and communism; the activities of conspiracy theorists such as Elizabeth Dilling and Texas Congressman Martin Dies; anticommunists' promotion...

... as its power was in the hands of an enlightened and expert policy elite. The famous Brain Trust around Franklin Roosevelt and the progressive liberal civil service personified by Beveridge and Keynes fit exactly this notion of top-down reform for the benefit of society as a whole. The progressive liberal...

...President Franklin Roosevelt produced another transformation of both the Constitution and the office of the presidency. The outpouring of legislation during the hundred days altered the presidential role within Congress and initiated new levels of federal involvement in the lives of citizens...

...The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 made labor activists keenly aware of the need for regulatory labor legislation as well as strikes and street protests. This chapter traces the evolving friendship of Newman and Schneiderman with Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt...

... regionalist authors, and in various forms of entertainment. Escalating disparagement continued for years. The 1930s put on view censorious and chaotic rhetoric during what Franklin Roosevelt called the “New Deal.” An agreed upon set of political categories that lent overall coherence to the political dialogue...

...This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American planning devised between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt hardly wanted Britain to be overrun by the Nazis, and so Britain received as much aid as the President deemed was within the limits of what...

... the arguments, Eisenhower proposed a compromise where plans would be produced for all eventualities, such as the collapse of Sicily. The chapter explains how distrust emerged when Churchill failed to reassure American President Franklin Roosevelt regarding the plans to abandon Overlord. It clarifies...

...This chapter looks into Winston Churchill's struggles to persuade American President Franklin Roosevelt over the greater flexibility required for the timing of Overlord and the necessity of extensive operations in the Mediterranean. Roosevelt suggested that Britain and America should not be seen...

.... The chapter explains American President Franklin Roosevelt's interpretation of military necessity. It notes that Bernard Montgomery's plans for the Normandy operation were the greatest amphibious landing ever attempted, following thousands of ships, warships, naval personnel, and troops to five landing...

... Manchuria Ball Joseph H Gromyko Andrei San Francisco peace conference 1951 oil supplies Britain US war aims President Franklin Roosevelt anti-imperialism internationalism Second World War President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a leader of immense importance, but he was not the be-all and the end-all...

... in Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics 1944 Whitney Foundation accommodationism black professional class Robert Clifton Weaver American cities race relations urban policy racial policy New Deal Franklin Roosevelt racial liberalism Over one hundred years ago, in one of the era's most...

...Though liberalism might be difficult to define, by the 1990s it was clear that the creed had declined. This chapter defines American liberalism by locating it deep in the nation's past and tracing its evolution. Rejuvenated by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, liberals also refitted their doctrine...

...This chapter explores the social and economic conditions that earned the South its label, “the problem South.” By 1938, the administration of Franklin Roosevelt had identified the “colonial economy” of the South as the nation's number one economic problem. In The Report on Economic...

...This chapter argues that foreign policy debates in the election of 1940 have been underestimated. Franklin Roosevelt remained cautious regarding foreign policy issues, in part because he had an election to win, and also because his opponent, Wendell Willkie, did not wholly reflect the Republican...