She was sort of adored on the Right the way Eleanor Roosevelt was on the Left.

So that, as Eleanor Roosevelt said once of human rights, the same is true of gender equality that it starts in small places, close to home.

The Panel is in possession of a copy of the document, which was signed by the Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Jonathan A. Mason, the Chairman of the National Investment Commission, Roosevelt K. Quiah, and the Deputy Minister of Finance, Tugbeh Doe, in place of Minister of Finance Lucinee F. Kamara, Sr.

And for me, one of the great stories recently was the Obamas digging up the south lawn of the White House to create a vegetable garden. Because the last time that was done, when Eleanor Roosevelt did it, it led to the creation of 20 million vegetable gardens across the United States.

In 1904, US President Theodore Roosevelt argued that, there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and of such peculiar horror that we should intervene by force of arms. A century earlier, in 1821, as Europeans and Americans debated whether to intervene in Greece s struggle for independence, President John Quincy Adams warned his fellow Americans about going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

The outcome may reflect the economy s slight improvement at election time (as happened when Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon in 1936, despite the continuing Great Depression). But Obama s victory might also be a testament to most US voters basic sense of economic reality.

As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt Second class intellect, but first class temperament. Most historians would agree that Roosevelt s success as a leader rested more on his good nature than on his analytical skills.

The ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt haunts Barack Obama s United States. Historical arguments over whether FDR s New Deal worked now form an important part of American debates over current monetary and fiscal policy in general, and the US Federal Reserve s policy of quantitative easing in particular.