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The 126 pages that link to Franklin D. Roosevelt, each with the reason it gives.

• Spencer TracyRelated: Tracy portrayed Roosevelt in the 1940 film Sunrise at Campobello, an early major screen role.

• United States home front during World War IIRelated: His administration organized mobilization and expanded federal direction of the wartime economy.

• Allied invasion of SicilyRelated: He helped set Allied strategy that placed Sicily next after North Africa.

• Mary McLeod BethuneRelated: Bethune advised his administration and led a federal agency during the New Deal.

• National Crime SyndicateRelated: His administration's investigations and public statements helped bring the syndicate idea into national discussion.

• Soong Mei-lingRelated: Her wartime advocacy brought her into direct contact with the U.S. president.

• Thomas E. DeweyCompared with: Roosevelt defeated Dewey in the 1944 presidential election.

• Upton SinclairRelated: Sinclair’s 1934 California gubernatorial campaign challenged Roosevelt’s New Deal approach to economic crisis.

• Allies of World War IIRelated: He expanded aid to Allied powers and helped define the coalition’s postwar aims.

• Central Pacific campaignRelated: Roosevelt approved the broad Pacific strategy and allocated forces between competing theaters.

• Fiorello La GuardiaRelated: Their administrations coordinated on relief, public works, and urban policy during the Depression.

• Glass–Steagall legislationRelated: Roosevelt signed the 1933 banking legislation amid the banking emergency.

• Grand Coulee DamRelated: His administration supported the federal development program that included the dam.

• Harry Dexter WhiteRelated: Roosevelt’s administration gave White a central role in planning the postwar economic order.

• Ioannis MetaxasRelated: Roosevelt’s public response to Greece’s resistance helped make Metaxas’s wartime stance internationally visible.

• Jan KarskiRelated: Karski personally briefed Roosevelt about occupied Poland and the fate of its Jews.

• Leslie GrovesNarrower topic: Roosevelt authorized the wartime atomic effort that Groves was appointed to manage.

• Margaret Bourke-WhiteRelated: Her Depression-era work intersected with public debates shaped by his administration’s New Deal.

• Science—The Endless FrontierRelated: Roosevelt’s 1944 letter to Bush asked how wartime science could serve the nation after victory.

• Doolittle RaidRelated: Roosevelt pressed military leaders for an early attack on the Japanese home islands.

• Henry A. WallaceRelated: Roosevelt chose Wallace as secretary of agriculture and later as his vice president.

• Hugo BlackRelated: Roosevelt appointed Black to the Supreme Court in 1937.

• Joseph StilwellRelated: Roosevelt appointed Stilwell to command American forces in China and made him Chiang’s chief of staff.

• Think tankRelated: His administration drew on policy experts in the 1932–33 transition group known as the Brains Trust.

• Fireside chatsRelated: He delivered the addresses and shaped their conversational style.

• James B. ConantRelated: Roosevelt appointed Conant to wartime scientific advisory roles that brought him into national policy.

• John Kenneth GalbraithRelated: Galbraith served in federal wartime economic administration during Roosevelt’s presidency.

• Juan TrippeRelated: Trippe negotiated with Roosevelt’s administration over routes, subsidies, and the wartime role of American airlines.

• Marian AndersonRelated: His administration arranged the federal grounds for Anderson’s concert after the Constitution Hall dispute.

• Olympic National ParkRelated: He established the park in 1938, bringing mountain and forest lands under broader protection.

• Patricia NealRelated: Neal met him as a young actress and later described him as an early romantic attachment.

• Will RogersRelated: Rogers's jokes frequently engaged with Roosevelt and the politics of his presidency.

• William J. DonovanRelated: Roosevelt appointed Donovan to lead the wartime intelligence organization he had authorized.

• William O. DouglasRelated: Roosevelt appointed Douglas to the Supreme Court in 1939.

• Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Related: Schlesinger’s historical writing treated Roosevelt’s New Deal as a defining episode in modern liberal politics.

• Charles G. DawesRelated: Roosevelt appointed Dawes president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932.

• Cordell HullRelated: As president, Roosevelt set the foreign-policy direction Hull carried out as secretary of state.

• Ernie PyleRelated: Roosevelt awarded Pyle the Medal for Merit for his reporting from the front.

• Frances PerkinsRelated: Roosevelt appointed Perkins labor secretary and backed her continued service through his presidency.

• Gore VidalRelated: Vidal’s grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as a Democratic senator during Roosevelt’s presidency.

• Huey LongRelated: Long’s challenge to Roosevelt made him a national rival within the Democratic Party.

• John Dos PassosCompared with: Dos Passos’s later rejection of New Deal politics marked a break with much of the American left.

• ManoleteRelated: Roosevelt reportedly sent condolences after Manolete’s death, reflecting his international celebrity.

• Robert E. SherwoodRelated: Sherwood became a speechwriter and adviser in Roosevelt’s wartime administration.

• Term limitRelated: His unprecedented four elections prompted the constitutional limit on presidential reelection.

• Walter WinchellRelated: Winchell supported Roosevelt and used his broadcasts to criticize political opponents.

• Alexander WoollcottRelated: Woollcott’s radio broadcasts and public profile brought him into contact with Roosevelt’s era of national broadcasting.

• Andrew MellonRelated: Roosevelt’s administration pursued a tax case against Mellon that ended after Mellon’s death.

• Ernest J. KingRelated: Roosevelt selected King as Chief of Naval Operations in 1942.

• Fort Peck DamRelated: His New Deal administration supported the public-works program that funded the dam.