 | Betty Houchin Winfield - 1990 - 304 pages
...after the president's editing made the addresses peculiarly "Rooseveltian." As Samuel Rosenman wrote, "The speeches as finally delivered were his — and...the time he delivered a speech he knew it almost by heart." One study of seventeen of his major international affairs speeches showed that the president... | |
 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1992 - 364 pages
...was nevertheless a presence in the room. And Rosenman's conclusion, like Michelson's, was emphatic: "the speeches as finally delivered were his — and...his alone — no matter who the collaborators were. ... No matter how frequently the speech assistants were changed through the years, the speeches were... | |
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He had gone over every point, every word, time and time again. He had studied, reviewed, and read aloud each draft, and had changed it again and again,; either in his own handwriting, by dictating inserts or making deletions. Because of the many hours... 