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Book: No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
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  1. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    I made the discovery long ago that very few people made a great difference to me, but that those few mattered enormously. I live surrounded by people, and my thoughts are always with the few that matter whether they are near or far.
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  2. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    In Louisiana, a group of nine Negro GIs boarded a train for transfer from the hospital at Camp Claiborne to the hospital at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The train was delayed for twelve hours. "The only place that would serve us was the lunch room at the station," one of the nine reported. "But we couldn't eat where the white people were eating. To do that would contaminate the very air of the place, so we had to go to the kitchen. That was bad enough but that's not all. About 11:30 that same morning, about two dozen German prisoners of war came to the lunchroom with two guards. They entered the large room, sat at the table. Then meals were served them. They smoked and had a swell time. As we stood on the outside and saw what was going on, we could scarcely believe our own eyes. There they sat: eating, talking, laughing, smoking. They were enemies of our country, people sworn to destroy all the so-called democratic governments of the world . . . . What are we fighting for?
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  3. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    If ever there was a country unprepared for the war, it was the U.S. in 1940. And yet now, only four years later, the United States was clearly the most productive, most powerful country on the face of the earth."
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  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    Eleanor had been unable to share in her husband's optimism; she had worried constantly about what America would look like after the fighting stopped, whether the liberal and humane values which had animated the New Deal were being sacrificed to the necessities of war. But in the fall of 1945, as she began traveling around the country again, she realized that the nation had taken even greater strides toward social justice during the war than it had during the New Deal. Indeed, the Roosevelt years had witnessed the most profound social revolution in the country since the Civil War-nothing less than the creation of modern America.
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    Eleanor had defended over the years, that the money spent on arms would be much better spent on education and medical care.
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  6. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor
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  7. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations
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  8. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    On the morning of June 20, at a hastily arranged conference at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel, a new umbrella organization was born with Eleanor as honorary chair-the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children. The purpose of the new committee was to coordinate all the different agencies and resources available in the United States for the care of refugee children.
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  9. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    Nothing so extraordinary has ever happened in American politics," a dazed Harold Ickes wrote. "Here was a man-a Democrat until a couple of years ago-who, without any organization went into a Republican National Convention and ran away with the nomination for President .
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  11. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    The domestic scene," she admitted, referring not only to the coal dispute but to a rash of racial disturbances that had recently broken out, "is anything but encouraging and one would like not to think about it, because it gives one a feeling that, as a whole, we are not really prepared for democracy.
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  12. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No ordinary time : Franklin

    They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind. In those whom they have blessed they live a life again.
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