PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OBSERVES SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY IN WHITE HOUSE. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT BEGINS HIS EIGHTH YEAR IN THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY AND OBSERVED THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS INAUGURATION BY ATTENDING SERVICES AT ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH TODAY. THE PRESIDENT, TANNED AND RUGGED FROM HIS SEA TRIP, WAS JOINED AT THE CHAPEL BY A GROUP OF HIS CLOSEST GOVERNMENT INTIMATES, CABINET MEMBERS, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AND ADVISORS. THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AFTER THE SERVICES-L TO R: MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; MRS. SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT, MOTHER OF THE PRESIDENT; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND MRS. ENDICOTT PEABODY, WIFE OF THE HEAD MASTER OF GROTON SCHOOL WHERE MR. ROOSEVELT PREPARED FOR HARVARD
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.
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