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Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south shore of the island near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis, an independent woman of "Bohemian" exotic, free-spirited tastes. [1]
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares the "Good Neighbor policy", US opposition to armed intervention in inter-American affairs. 1933 – London Economic Conference, to deal with Great Depression, collapses after US withdraws. 1933 – US extends diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...
Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand (September 13, 1896 – July 31, 1944) was a private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer Kathryn Smith in The Gatekeeper, she eventually functioned as White House Chief of Staff, the only woman in American history to do so.
Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas (left) and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) in 1936. The Good Neighbor policy (Spanish: Política de buena vecindad [1] Portuguese: Política de Boa Vizinhança) was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt towards Latin America.
Margaret Lynch Suckley / ˈ s ʊ k l iː / (December 20, 1891 – June 29, 1991) was a sixth cousin, intimate friend, and confidante of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as an archivist for the first American presidential library. [1]
Benjamin Sumner Welles (October 14, 1892 – September 24, 1961) [1] was an American government official and diplomat. He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State from 1936 to 1943, during Roosevelt's presidency.
Roosevelt's black advisors in 1938 [a]. The Black Cabinet was an unofficial group of African-American advisors to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.African-American federal employees in the executive branch formed an unofficial Federal Council of Negro Affairs to try to influence federal policy on race issues.