Ickes
Americannoun
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“If this decision does not outrage the moral sense of the country, then nothing will,” FDR’s Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, wrote in his diary.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
“I mean, we weren’t thinking about the country,” Harold Ickes, who worked for Kennedy, admitted in an interview.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2022
“The long-run impact may be more significant than the short-run impact,” said Barry Ickes, head of the economics department at Pennsylvania State University, who specializes in the Russian economy.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022
His reach extended so far that Harold M. Ickes, President Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, once joked that Mr. Johnson was “the chairman of the universe.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2020
Excited by the idea, Ickes hurried over to the White House to catch President Roosevelt, who was preparing to leave town that day.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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