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President Roosevelt   /prˈɛzədˌɛnt rˈoʊzəvˌɛlt/   Listen
President Roosevelt

noun
1.
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945).  Synonyms: F. D. Roosevelt, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, President Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt.
2.
26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration.  Synonyms: President Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt.






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"President roosevelt" Quotes from Famous Books



... President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question ...
— The Principles of Scientific Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor

... grandpere had two big stores, back to back; whole-sale, Chartres Street; retail, Royal, where now all that is left of it is the shop of Mme. Alexandre. Both her husband and she were with papa in the retail store, until it diminish' that he couldn' keep them, and—in the time of President Roosevelt—some New York men they bought him out. Because a new head of the custom-house, old Creole friend of papa, without solicitation except maybe of M. Beloiseau and those, appointed him superintendent of customs warehouses, you know? where they keep ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable

... Vice-President Roosevelt was camping in the Adirondacks. A message reached him, and the next morning he arrived in Buffalo. The Cabinet of Mr. McKinley decided that the vice-president should be at once inaugurated as president. Colonel Roosevelt was a guest at the house of Mr. Ainsley Wilcox. He ...
— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew



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