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  • alwaysref1erto the Navy as I us.Ill Onthis daythirty yearsago, in 1933,Franklin D. Roosevelt wasthe speakerhere -- and he.awarded the Bachelorof Sciencedegreefor the fiirst time in the NavalAcademy'shistory. I knoweachof you is r- proudof yoDr newcommission. I am
  • in it .... intimately. I cannot truthfully say that any man is qualified for it in advance. In days gone by, Democra,ts Franklin Roosevelts and Al Smiths. nominated these giants opened with was nominated on the first ballot., Stevenson was not chosen until the have had
  • for your them from back. Minnesota his campaigning that Jack Kennedy couldn't -to be with us also. I am particularly again, keeping others who are here. glad to see Franklin an eye on Hubert Roosevelt, -- and maybe on some Jr
  • not sell. It was not until the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt that the reciprocal trad~ agreements were institute~ and we began to recover our foreign m1rkets. The reciprocal trade agreements are a prime target of those who are so anxious
  • whether true o~ state publicly his nenta l in high plaoes such as the presidency , as well that such as to attack, aubjeot physioians D. Roosevelt , of on. he could carry in lOIJ places he was in posaeasion whether Our great war leader
  • of the Roosevelt Administration when we were trying to economize. It goes something like this: One of the Senators called up an old judge who had served in the District r or years Court of Dallas. The Senator said: "Judge, I just wanted to tell you we passed
  • and pull grapefruit out and hull it with their teeth because they didn't have food. And I lived through the Roosevelt Era and the Truman Era and the Eisenhower Era and the Kennedy Era. I knew all of those men, and I knew them reasonably well. And all