Roosevelt (106 page)

Rayburn, Sam,
137
,
154
,
186
,
341
,
346
; Supreme Court fight,
294
,
297
,
307

Reciprocal Tariff Act,
189
;
see also
Reciprocal trade program (
below
)

Reciprocal trade program,
189
,
252
,
310
,
311
,
322
,
418

Recovery program,
162
ff
.,
171
,
180
,
215-22
,
225
;
see also
Relief; New Deal; Farm program; Labor; Social security

Reconstruction Finance Corp.
See
RFC

Reed, David,
199-200

Reed, James,
131

Reforestation Referendum,
129

Reform, influences on F.D.R.,
23
ff.
;
see also
Progressives; Wilson, Woodrow; Roosevelt, Theodore

Reilly, Mike,
452
,
453

Relief,
124-25
,
169
,
219-21
,
246
,
266-67
;
see also
WPA; CCC; Recovery program; PWA

Religion,
29
,
237

Reorganization Act of 1939,
382

Reorganization, governmental,
70
,
71
; 1939 plan,
344-46
,
382

Repeal, Eighteenth Amendment.
See
Prohibition, repeal

Republican party: F.D.R. early support,
25
; 1910 progressive-conservative struggle,
31-32
,
34
; 1911 insurgents,
37
,
39
; World War I,
61
,
62
; anti-League fight,
69
,
75
ff
.; F.D.R. attacks (1919),
71
; “normalcy” era,
84-86
; Depression policies,
123
ff
.; F.D.R. bipartisanship attempts,
145-46
,
183
ff
.,
367
ff
.,
509
;
see also
Elections;
and below

Republican party, nominating conventions: (1920)
73
; (1930, N. Y.)
120
; (1936)
270
; (1940)
424
,
431
;
see also
Elections;
and above

Reynaud, Paul,
421-22

RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corp.),
124
,
169
,
172
,
190
,
267

Rhineland,
260

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
395

Richberg, Donald,
193
,
372

Right and left pressures,
219-22
,
513

Right opposition,
205-8
;
225-47
passim

Ritchie, Albert C.,
126
,
131

Rittenhouse Club,
235

Roberts, Owen J.,
230
,
231-32
,
233
,
303-4

Robespierre, Maximilien,
209

Robinson, Joseph T.,
166
,
175
,
188
,
219
,
242
,
309
; World Court fight,
251
; Supreme Court fight,
294-308
passim
,
314
,
316
; death,
308

Rockefeller, John D.,
22

Rogers, Edmund,
10

Rogers, Will,
251

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis,
353
,
441

Roosevelt family,
4-9
,
20
,
24
,
28-30
,
50
; “hate stories,”
234-35
,
337-38
,
442
;
see also individual listings below

Roosevelt, Anna (daughter of F.D.R.),
27
,
35
,
153

Roosevelt, Eleanor (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt; wife and distant cousin of F.D.R.),
24
,
76-77
,
84
,
153
,
201
,
202
,
288
,
419
,
421
; childhood and marriage,
26-27
; early marriage years,
27-30
,
34-35
,
48
,
51
,
60
,
61
; family life,
68
,
107-8
,
172
(
see also
F.D.R., chronology); F.D.R.’s polio,
87-88
; conflict with F.D.R.’s mother over his entry into politics,
90
; aids him in political career,
91
ff
., active in party and educational activities,
107
ff
.; as reporter and explorer for F.D.R.,
118
,
173-74
,
194
,
266
,
338
,
418
,
422-23
; 1928 campaign,
99
,
100
; 1932 campaign,
139
,
140
; 1933 inaugural,
162
,
165
; 1936 campaign,
275
,
282
; 1940 convention,
429
; 1940 election night,
452
; World War II,
468
; member of “kitchen cabinet,”
266
; “My Day” column,
266
; opposes son’s selection as Assistant Secretary,
300
; influence on F.D.R.,
24-25
,
27
,
173-74
,
204
,
266
,
473
; quoted on F.D.R.’s Harvard inferiority complex,
18
; quoted on F.D.R.’s early speeches,
33
; quoted on F.D.R.’s early political philosophy,
46
; quoted on F.D.R.’s religious beliefs,
237
,
475
; quoted on Howe,
44

Roosevelt, Elliott (father of Eleanor; brother of Theodore),
26

Roosevelt, Elliott (second son of F.D.R.),
35
,
61
,
107
,
153
,
442
,
468
,
478

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, chronology: ancestry and family background,
3-10
; birth and childhood,
3-10
,
24
,
483
n
; education,
10-25
,
28
,
494-95
(
see also
Groton School; Harvard University; Columbia Law School); law practice,
23
,
28-29
,
84
,
90
; first political affiliations,
25
,
26
,
29
; marriage and honeymoon,
26-27
; young husband,
28
; children,
35
,
67
; family life,
35
,
67-68
,
76-77
,
107-8
,
153
,
337
,
407-8
(
see also
Roosevelt, Eleanor); enters politics (1910),
29
; State Senate race,
29-34
; as State Senator (1911-12),
35-47
,
54
; leader of anti-Tammany insurgents,
36-42
; “original Wilson supporter” (1912 presidential election),
47-49
; re-elected State Senator (1912),
44-45
,
49
; Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-20),
50-68
; anti-Tammany candidate for nomination for Governor or U.S. Senator (1914),
55-60
; World War I work,
60-66
,
80
; refuses to run for Governor (1918),
64-65
; Democratic candidate for Vice President (1920),
72-76
; enters business,
83-86
; stricken with polio (1921),
86-91
; supports Smith for Governor (1922, 1924),
92-95
; attempts party reforms (1925-26),
98-98
; refuses to run for U.S. Senate (1926),
99
; role in Smith campaign for Presidency (1928),
97
,
99-104
; reluctantly accepts draft as Democratic candidate for Governor (1928),
99-104
; Governor of N. Y.,
105-46
; re-elected (1930),
119-22
; candidate for presidency (1932),
123
,
125-40
; defeats Hoover,
139-45
; first inaugural (1933),
162-65
; re-elected (1936),
271-88
; third-term election (1940),
426-31
; reelected for fourth term (1944),
465-86
; death (1945),
478
;
see also below

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, personal characteristics and development: heredity and environment,
6-9
,
77-80
,
499
; influence of mother,
476
(
see also
Chapter I); influence of teachers,
10-28
passim
(
see also
Political leadership, education for); influence of Theodore Roosevelt,
24-25
,
43
,
57
,
179
,
182
,
473
; influence of Eleanor Roosevelt,
24-25
,
27
,
43
,
173
ff.
(
see also
Roosevelt, Eleanor); polio and general health,
52
,
99-100
,
382
,
409
,
450
,
468
,
470-71
; personal appearance and manner: (1911)
41
, (1914)
59
, (1918)
67
, (1921)
89
, (1924)
94
, (1928)
102
,
103
,(1932)
151-52
, (1933)
176
, (1936)
264-65
, (1937)
323
; temperament,
50-51
,
72
,
80
,
89
,
117
,
139
,
142
,
152
,
155
,
174
,
238
,
264-65
,
297
,
314
,
316-17
,
452
; charm and ability to win affection and popularity,
130
,
200
,
203-5
,
286
,
317-18
,
337-39
,
346
,
347-48
,
362
; moral, ethical, religious factors,
29
,
42
,
60
,
134
,
152
,
200
ff
.,
237
,
452
,
475
; social outlook,
23
(
see also
socio-political philosophy
under
F.D.R., political development,
below
); sensitivity to people rather than doctrines,
23
,
53
,
80
,
117
,
155
,
204
; “practical man” rather than thinker,
71
,
154-57
,
171
,
198
,
244-46
,
334-35
,
477
; pragmatist, opportunist, experimenter,
63
ff
.,
84
(see also
middle way
and
straddling and compromise
under
F.D.R.; political development,
below
); as” democracy’s aristocrat,”
472-77
; contradictions and complexity,
6-9
,
472-77
,
491
;
see also below

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, political development: heredity and environment,
6-9
,
77-80
,
480-83
,
499
; education for leadership,
14
ff
.,
32-33
,
60
,
479-86
; early views and political interest,
14-18
,
20-21
,
25
,
79-80
,
86
,
89
,
90
,
93
,
100
,
123
,
125
; political effects of polio,
88-91
,
500
; influences of mother, teachers, wife, Theodore Roosevelt,
10-28
passim
(
see also under
F.D.R., personal characteristics and development,
above
); socio-political philosophy,
20-21
,
23
,
43
,
46
,
52
,
54
,
68
,
71
,
78
,
89-90
,
117
,
144
,
150
,
156
,
179-80
,
198
,
237-38
(
see also
middle way
below
); as an economist,
123
,
171
,
177-78
,
195
,
206
,
329-41
; middle way approach,
139
,
143-44
,
148
,
184
ff
.,
219-22
,
224-26
,
234
,
249
ff.
, as a reformer,
42
,
68
,
243
,
497
; as a conservative,
234-41
; as a progressive,
42
,
47
,
54
,
70-71
,
497
; as a radical,
219-26
,
234
; as an administrator,
50
,
52
,
63
,
67
,
174
,
188
,
189
,
264-65
,
371-75
; working methods,
32-34
,
58-59
,
63-64
,
67
,
68
,
74-75
,
103
,
107
,
113
,
118-21
,
126
,
152
,
155-56
,
223
,
264-65
,
334
; “brain trust” and advisers,
129
,
140
,
141
,
148
,
153-56
,
172
,
206
,
265-66
,
324-27
,
333-36
; staff,
101
,
116
,
117
,
130
,
140
,
142
,
150-56
,
203
,
227
,
264-66
,
300-1
; political craft, tactics, strategy,
50
,
52
,
55-56
,
64
,
70
,
98
,
118
,
125-126
,
132
,
284-87
,
297
,
306
,
316-17
; sense of timing,
284-85
,
306
,
455
; historical sense,
488
; straddling and compromise,
41-44
,
71
,
79
,
93
,
98
,
121
ff
.,
132-33
,
142-46
,
219-22
,
238
,
248-60
,
322
,
352-57
,
476-77
(
see also
middle way,
above
;
and
“practical” man
et seq. under
F.D.R., personal characteristics and development,
above
); as a political leader,
146
,
150-51
,
164
ff.
,
197
ff
.,
397-404
; as party leader,
375-80
; as foreign policy maker,
164
,
177-79
,
262-63
,
518
; as a war leader,
62-67
,
459-64
; as a peace leader,
464
;
see also below