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1. Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt in 1943. Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY ... cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). They were married in 1905 and had six children, five of whom ... States in 1932. The White House On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as president ... cable to her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt, who was on a fishing trip, asking for his opinion on
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2. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Political Voices Henry Morgenthau Jr. Henry Morgenthau Jr., President Franklin Roosevelt ... from another prominent family, the Roosevelts, and as Franklin Roosevelt planned for a political career ... . Morgenthau and his wife, Elinor, host Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston ... friendship with the president, Morgenthau hesitated to alert Roosevelt to what the Treasury staff uncovered
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3. Frances Perkins
President Franklin Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945. The first female cabinet secretary, Perkins was the longest ... Frances Perkins, August 14, 1935. Courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ... serving secretary of labor and one of the architects of Roosevelt’s New Deal economic policies designed to ... United States a safe haven for refugees. When Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as his secretary of
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4. Breckinridge Long
president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long’s own political campaigns failed: he ran for the US Senate in ... Missouri twice and lost both times. When Roosevelt announced his presidential candidacy in 1932, Long ... enthusiastically raised money for the campaign. After Roosevelt’s landslide victory, Long became ... Roosevelt’s ambassador to Italy, serving from 1933 to 1936. When World War II began in September 1939
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5. Charles Coughlin
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. However, after Roosevelt won the presidential election, Coughlin did not achieve ... popularity, Coughlin had as many as forty million devoted weekly listeners. By 1942, his anti-Roosevelt and ... the political access or power he had anticipated. Years later, Coughlin remarked, “He [Roosevelt ... my advice. He just used me.” Frustrated by what he perceived as Roosevelt’s lack of
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6. Stephen Wise
. Wise and Roosevelt Stephen Wise’s relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt was rocky at ... first. Wise did not vote for Roosevelt in 1932, preferring socialist candidate Norman Thomas. Yet ... Roosevelt, who once lamented that there was no “Jewish pope” to coordinate Jewish advocacy ... in turn, was proud of his relationship with Roosevelt, whom he called “Chief
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7. Otto Frank
for President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration. He had plenty of political contacts and