FDR'S GRANDSON SEEKS NEW DEAL FOR LONG BEACH.Byline: Scott Lindlaw Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. He has two U.S. presidents in his lineage LINEAGE. Properly speaking lineage is the relationship of persons in a direct line; as the grandfather, the father, the son, the grandson, &c. , but H. Delano Roosevelt will draw more on his own business background than on his family background when he takes office as a Long Beach city councilman. The grandson of the president who graces the dime won a dime-thin victory Tuesday night over Dennis Carroll Dennis Carroll (born ?, 19)is a former Australian rules footballer for the Sydney Swans in the VFL/AFL. From Ganmain, a town outside of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Carroll came from a football family. for the 4th Council District. ``Del'' Roosevelt, marketing director at an Irvine energy conservation firm, said he believes in Franklin D. Roosevelt's greatest legacy: the New Deal. But, he said, government has become massive and unwieldy in recent decades and must be run more intelligently. ``I want to bring more common sense to how the city does business,'' he said Wednesday in a telephone interview. ``How we spend money and what on, and how we attract business to Long Beach. . . . Instead of throwing more money at the problem, I want to see how we can make it run more efficiently.'' However, the Democrat insisted he shares FDR's empathy empathy Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The empathic actor or singer is one who genuinely feels the part he or she is performing. for regular people. ``The thing FDR and I have in common, what we've always done in my family, is we're going to be there for the little guy,'' he said. ``I don't have any room for bureaucracy.'' From the Oval Office, his grandfather led the nation through the Depression and into World War II. When Roosevelt moves into his 14th-floor office at Long Beach City Hall next month, he'll confront gangs, drugs and prostitution Drugs and prostitution are related in that some drug addicts, most commonly heroin or crack cocaine users, obtain their drugs primarily through prostitution. They may receive money (which is used to pay for drugs), or they may receive the drug in trade for sex. on the west side of his district. ``The east side is `Ozzie and Harriet' land - but it has its own set of problems,'' he said. ``There are nicer cars, so there are auto thefts. It's diverse, and that in itself will be challenging.'' The changes HDR (1) (High Data Rate) A wireless data technology from QUALCOMM that provides up to a 2.4 Mbps data rate in a standard 1.25MHz CDMA voice channel. HDR can be used to enhance data capabilities in existing cdmaOne networks or in stand-alone data networks. seeks are small ones, but they're the kind that count in his district of 49,000 people - more police officers and more crosswalks. FDR died in 1945, so Roosevelt, who turns 37 this month, never met him or his distant cousin Theodore, also a U.S. president. His father, former Rep. James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 – August 13, 1991) was the oldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. He was born in New York City at 125 E. , was FDR's eldest son and once served as ambassador to Switzerland. |
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