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I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.

~Alan J. Heeger

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I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.

~Ann Richards

Topics: Born Community Depression Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Grew Just Listening Little Outside Radio Roosevelt Up I Was Born

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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Adequate Approach Approaches Depression Fails Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Had He Lessons Need New New Things Orthodox Orthodoxy Roosevelt Shown Something Then Things Think Try Very Willing You I Think

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Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory of problems that he inherited is probably as big overall as any president, certainly since Franklin Roosevelt and maybe, in some cases, worse.

~Chuck Hagel

Topics: American American President Any Big Biggest Cases Certainly Entire Ever Foreign Foreign Policy Franklin Franklin Roosevelt He Inherited Inventory Maybe Obama Overall Policy President Problems Roosevelt Since Some Than Think Well Worse I Think Mr

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Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

~David Gergen

Topics: Clearly Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Radio Reagan Ronald Reagan Roosevelt Television

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Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

~Dick Morris

Topics: Because Carbon Change Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Great Had He Instead Instincts Magnitude Need Now Order Paper Political Poll Polls Principle Roosevelt Same Use Xerox

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My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'

~Doris Kearns Goodwin

Topics: About Book Everything Faced Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Got John Johnson Kennedy Know Long Lyndon Lyndon Johnson Me Nightmare Out Panel Recurring Roosevelt Saying Someday Telling Them Twice Whom Why Will Wrong Wrote You

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The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

~Gaylord Nelson

Topics: Appreciated Around Complicated Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Geometric Issues More Number Roosevelt Some Than Them Times Today

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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

~Gaylord Nelson

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

~George Will

Topics: Been Both Democratic Democrats Died Emergence Followed Franklin Franklin Roosevelt John Kennedy Office Only Party Presidents Ran Republican Republican Party Roosevelt Since Two Jfk

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