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liberalization of processes,
649

moderates, liberals, progressives in,
14
,
70
,
87
,
109
,
119
,
320
,
466
,
636
,
637
,
641
; overlap with Democratic party,
119
,
126
,
320
,
466

Old Guard-moderate split in,
109
,
119
,
126
,
236
,
245
,
246-8
,
250
,
253
,
286

Reagan and,
636-8

reconstitution of,
657

right-wing conservatives of,
119
,
120
,
258
,
320
,
466
,
558
,
560
,
636-8
,
641
,
657

Southern Democrats’ coalition with,
132
,
191
,
466
,
638
,
640

see also
elections and campaigns Republic Steel Corporation,
100

research and development (R&D),
267-8
,
269-70
,
542-3

Reston, James,
262

Reuther, Victor,
573

Reuther, Walter,
187
,
273
,
287
,
301
,
381
,
573
,
661

Revenue Acts:

of 1935 (wealth tax),
76
,
77
,
78
,
128

of 1942,
191-2

Review of Radical Political Economy
,
564

revolution,
337-8
,
348

civil rights struggle as,
361-6
,
386-8

Kennedy’s inaugural words on,
326-7
,
328
,
335

Third World movements,
305
,
335-6
,
337-44
,
419
,
527

Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM),
421-2

Revolution in the Revolution?
(Debray),
336

Reynaud, Paul,
162

Reynolds, Quentin,
202

Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran,
255
,
530

Rhee, Syngman,
240-1
,
254

Rhodes, Cecil,
277

Rhodes, John J.,
508

rhythm and blues (R&B),
427

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
159
,
176

Ribicoff, Abraham,
415

Rice, Elmer,
136
,
137

Rich, Adrienne,
451

Richardson, Elliot L.,
505
,
512

Riesman, David,
279-81
,
599

“right-to-lifers,”
448

right wing,
123
,
132
,
466
,
625-9
,
656

Christian,
628

credo and values of,
42

economic laissez-faire,
42
,
560
,
627-9

FDR denounced by,
41-5
,
71-3

intellectualism,
625-8

Reagan and,
636-8
,
642-4

resurgence,
462
,
558
,
624-6

and women’s issues: abortion,
448
; ERA,
458

see also
conservatism; New Right

Ritchie, Albert,
11

Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek),
560

Roberts, Owen J.,
95

Robeson, Paul,
231
,
594

Robinson, Joe,
20
,
24
,
94-5

Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith,
386

Roche, John P.,
408
,
409

Rockefeller, John D.,
140

Rockefeller, Nelson A.,
326
,
415
,
468
,
520
,
558
,
625
,
637
,
657

rock ’n’ roll,
427-8
,
429-32

Rodino, Peter,
506-7

Roe
v.
Wade
,
448
,
653
,
654

Rogers, Will,
31
,
78

Rogers, William P.,
467
,
471
,
473
,
476-7

Rohatyn, Felix,
633

Rolling Stones (rock group),
430

Roman Catholicism,
57
,
123
,
205
,
536-8
,
594

and abortion,
448

bishops’ “Pastoral Letter,”
537-8
,
668-9

Boston Irish,
306-9

as 1960 election issue,
324
,
325

peace stance of,
484
,
536-7

Rommel, Gen. Erwin,
180
,
181
,
200

Roosevelt, Anna,
4
,
205
,
212

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
3-4
,
7-10
,
11-12
,
13
,
23
,
83
,
113
,
210
,
214
,
219
,
234-5
,
333
,
433-4
,
593
,
676
,
677
,
678

and FDR’s death,
212
,
222

influence in FDR’s presidency,
29
,
34
,
36
,
338
,
546
; as spokesperson,
64
,
164

postwar role of,
235
,
236
,
238
,
277
,
286
; as leader and conscience of Democrats,
287-8
,
325-6
; at UN,
235
,
339
; in women’s issues,
433-4
,
438

social conscience of,
8
,
10
,
28
,
113

support for the arts,
133
,
135
,
136
,
13
,
139

trip to Asia,
339

Roosevelt, Elliott,
3-4

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
21
,
593
,
606
,
656

background and education.6-8,
44
,
152

brain trust of,
13-14
,
28

charges of communism and fascism against,
43
,
44-5
,
81-2
,
85
,
112
,
204-5

charges of dictatorship against,
43
,
105-6

and Churchill,
38
,
161
,
171
,
177-8
,
195
,
217
,
338-9
,
341-2

death of,
212

early political career of,
8-10
,
152
,
271

Governor of New York,
10
,
19-20
,
662

Huey Long and,
15-16
,
60
,
61-2
,
78
,
80

humanitarianism of,
29
,
215

ill health of,
204-5
,
208-9
,
210

inaugurations of:
1933
,
22-3
;
1937
,
92

an internationalist,
152
,
155

leadership of,
12
,
27-8
,
55
,
70-1
,
73-5
,
115-16
,
120
,
216
,
222
,
648
,
661
; intellectual failings in,
28
,
29-30
,
35
,
63-4
,
129-30
,
216
; lacking in foreign policy of 1930s,
154-7

as party leader,
116-19
,
656
; fails in pro-New Deal realignment in 1938 elections,
108-11
,
117
; goal of truly progressive party,
118-19

personality of,
3
,
215-16
,
217-18

political touch and timing of,
28
,
30-2
,
63
,
86
,
126
,
165
,
215-16
,
217

as President,
293
,
314
,
318-19
,
329
,
347
,
466
,
641
,
651
; administrative style,
114-16
,
120
; and atom bomb,
223
,
224
,
545-6
; and blacks,
113
,
117
,
321
,
359
,
371
; cabinet of,
23-4
,
112
,
163
,
223
,
234
,
318
; and Congress (after 1936),
93-6
,
104-7
,
108-11
,
112-13
,
116
,
126
,
132
,
135
,
155-6
,
158-9
,
162
,
191-2
,
210
; decision-making style,
27-30
,
34-5
,
75
; domestic policy,
see
New Deal; economic and fiscal planning,
130-1
,
214-15
,
561
; “economic bill of rights,”
16
,
202-3
,
276-7
,
344
,
666
; evaluation and criticism,
126-31
,
212-19
; federal spending vs. budget balancing dilemma,
35
,
64
,
79
,
102-3
,
112
,
130
,
215
,
374
; fireside chats,
31
,
104
,
109
,
176
,
216
; “First Hundred Days,”
23-7
,
30
,
32
,
62
; first term,
23-45
,
47
,
48
,
63-79
,
86
,
214
; foreign policy,
35-7
,
149-57
,
158-74
,
205-12
,
234
,
290
,
328
,
338-9
,
341-2
,
490
,
524
; Four Freedoms,
203
,
266
,
276
,
281
,
666
; fourth term,
205-9
,
210-12
; and independence for India and Indochina,
178
,
208
,
338-9
,
341-2
; moral failure in Nisei relocation and Holocaust,
218-19
; 1938 spending bill,
104
,
128
,
214
; and the press,
31-2
,
82
,
283
; press conferences,
31-2
,
43
,
73
,
93
; quoted on “dole,”
568
;
Realpolitik
,
159
,
216
,
217
,
223
; reorganization bill,
105-6
,
115
,
131
; right-wing business community critics of,
41-5
,
71-3
,
101-3
; and “Roosevelt recession” of 1937-39,
101-4
,
114
,
128
,
130
,
214
; “Second Hundred Days,”
70
,
75-8
; second term,
87-96
,
99-120
,
130-1
,
132
,
149-65
,
214
,
632
; support for the arts,
132-3
,
135
,
139
; and Supreme Court,
71-4
,
87-96
,
321
; Supreme Court packing plan,
93-6
,
105
,
118
; third term,
165-78
,
180-2
,
185-6
,
190-3
,
195-200
,
202-5
,
215
; “turn to the left,”
70
,
77
,
118
,
218
; and union strikes,
47
,
48-9
,
99-100
,
107
; views of Asian leaders on,
337-8
; wages-and-hours bill,
106
,
107
; war leader,
216-17
,
495
(
see also subentry below:
and World War II)

as President-elect,
19-21
,
26

presidential candidacies,
661
;
1932
,
3-6
,
10-18
,
662
,
676
;
1936
,
79-86
,
87
,
91
,
117-18
;
1940
,
161
,
163
,
164-5
;
1944
,
203-5

public opinion of,
37
,
58-9
,
63
,
81
,
108

and Stalin,
198
,
207-8
,
210-11
,
217

and Truman,
204
,
223

and World War II,
174-8
,
180-2
,
185-6
,
190
,
195-200
,
216-17
,
222
,
402-3
; aid to Britain,
161
,
162
,
164
,
166-70
; at Casablanca,
195
,
196
; pledge to stay out,
160
,
161
,
162
,
166-7
,
170
prewar policy in Pacific,
170-1
,
172-4
; at Teheran,
195
,
198-9
; at Yalta,
205-9
,
252-3

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