Category Archives: Favorite Evolutions
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war a day after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
ATLANTIC CONFERENCE BETWEEN PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 10 AUGUST 1941 part of “ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION” (photographs) Made by: Priest, L C (Lt) The President of the United States, Franklin D Roosevelt, and the Prime Minister of the … Continue reading
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
“…the President outlined the four essential human freedoms. They amounted to a declaration of American aims for a postwar world: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.” (FDR, 6 January 1941). (Kershaw, Ian, Fateful … Continue reading
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
“We must be the arsenal of democracy.” (FDR fireside chat to the American People). “Roosevelt’s annual address to Congress on the State of the Union ….. stipulated his budget demands for 1942: of the 17.5 billion dollars requested, 60 percent was allocated … Continue reading
Iwo Jima (WWII)
“The American landing at Iwo Jima, a vital step in the defeat of Japan.” (Michel, Henri World War II, A Short History, 1971).
Lend-Lease Bill ( Franklin D. Roosevelt)
“The British pinned their greatest hopes, however, on American aid. They received this under the Lend-Lease Bill, one of the most important programmes of the whole war, which Roosevelt passed throguh Congress in March 1941. …countries fighting for freedom would receive … Continue reading
Dwight D.Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman (Jan 20, 1953)
“Custom decreed that the outgoing and incoming Presidents ride down Pennsylvania Avenue together.” The incoming Eisenhower asked the outgoing Truman who had ordered his son, John Eisenhower, back from Korea for the Inauguration, “I did,” said the President. And a … Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mamie D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife, Mamie D. Eisenhower, San Antonio, Texas, 1916, on the steps of St. Louis College.
Atlantic Charter
“the final destruction of Nazi tyranny,” and a pledge to support “the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.” ( Franklin D. Roosevelt The Atlantic Charter (1941) “In July 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met … Continue reading
The Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes), and (Tocqueville) (Rousseau)
Hobbes‘s insistence on absolutism : “impose limitation on the authority of the government is to invite irresoluble disputes over whether it has overstepped those limits. If each person is to decide for herself whether the government should be obeyed, factional disagreement—and … Continue reading
