R

Rainbow Plan, 297

Rand, James, 24, 75

Rascoe, Burton, 323

Raskob, John J., 268-271

Rayburn, Samuel, 106, 211, 216

Reciprocal Trade Agreements, 51, 54

Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 23, 30, 57, 125, 145, 238, 292, 306, 309

Red Cross, 131, 257

Reed, Stanley, 56

Reilly, Michael F., 348, 351, 400, 408, 410

Relief, Government, 39, 42, 86, 88, 115, 125, 132, 133-137, 186, 202

Republican Convention, (1936) 87; (1940) 204-208, 219

Republican Party, 92, 204, 220

Richardson, J. O., 296

Richberg, Donald, 44, 46, 106, 107

Robinson, Joseph, 64, 102, 105, 106, 110

Rockefeller, John D., 64

Roerich, Nicholas Constantin, 226-229

Rogers, James, 56

Rogers, Lindsay, 34

Roos, Charles F., 45

Roosevelt & Sargent, 237-238, 239, 240

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 5, 88, 104, 131, 132, 142, 209, 217-218, 244-257, 268-269, 273, 274, 279, 324, 357, 372, 386, 410

Roosevelt, Elliott, 217, 241-244, 271-273, 298, 341, 349, 358, 359-360, 361, 400

Roosevelt, Franklin D., as Assistant-Secretary of Navy, 262, 263;

background, 258-266;

and banking crisis, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31;

and banking reform, 60, 288;

banking policy while governor, 19;

business, assaults upon, 287-288;

character, 102-103, 104, 127, 176, 181, 209-210, 263-286, 293, 298, 320, 377-378, 383;

Chautauqua address, 90-91, 128, 169-170, 294;

and city machines, 183-190;

commitments, foreign (see Conferences, International under specific headings, also World War II);

Congress, control of, 133, 415;

convention of 1936, 88;

Court-packing plan, 105-113;

death, 396-412;

and depression of 1937-38, 114-128;

and dollar devaluation, 55-58;

economic and political knowledge, 123-128, 132-133, 260, 263-264;

education, 259-260;

effect of 1936 election on, 99;

estate and memorial library, 276-278;

estimate of, 413-419;

on ethics, public, 236, 244, 249-250;

family, behavior of, 103-104, 235-257, 271-273;

first fireside chat, 31;

first inauguration, 3-10;

first inaugural address, 7-8;

fourth term, 361-364, 366, 371-377, 387;

governorship, circumstances of nomination for, 266-271;

health, 210, 221, 364, 366-371, 373, 378-379, 396-412;

Hoover, calls on, 26;

inaugural address of 1937, 99-100;

and inflationists, 50;

inheritance, 235;

and invasion of France, 334-336, 343, 355-356;

leaders, treatment of, 55, 148, 218, 320, 386;

lectures reporters, 14;

letter from Hoover to, 17, 20;

and London Economic Conference, 51-54;

and minorities, racial and religious, 199-201, 344, 362-363;

and Munich crisis, 167;

on NRA demise, 47;

and neutrality legislation, 168-170, 172-173, 294-295;

in New York State Legislature, 261-262;

political philosophy, 77, 78, 100, 281-283, 285-286, 331;

praise for, 14, 99, 278-279;

promises (See Promises, Roosevelt);

“Quarantine”

speech, 172-173;

and Republican leaders, 219-221;

second inauguration, 97;

and Senate leadership fight, 110-111;

and Social Security, 59, 60, 415-416;

and soldiers’

bonus, 86;

speeches, authorship of, 283-285;

as stamp collector, 263, 274-275;

third term, 175-182, 208-218;

and vice-presidency (1940) 216-218, (1944) 374-377;

vice-presidential candidate, 262;

and World War II, America’s entry into, 293-298, 300-301, 303-304, 417-418

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 88

Roosevelt, Hall, 273

Roosevelt, James, 3, 7, 88, 110, 237-241, 271, 367, 378

Roosevelt, John, 88

Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 88, 209, 259

Roosevelt, Theodore, 177, 179, 257, 258, 261, 262, 275, 285

Roper, Daniel, 115, 148

Rosen, Joseph, 197, 198, 199

Rosenblum, Rabbi, 10

Rosenman, Samuel I., 5, 33, 108, 147, 186, 218, 284, 373, 391, 406

Roxy Theatre, New York, 238

Rural Electrification Administration, 242

Russia, (See Stalin, Josef; Communism, etc., also Conferences, International under specific headings)

Russian Purchasing Commission, 242