Time is money, as Benjamin Franklin said.

To make the right choice, leaders will need what United States President Franklin D.

And why Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on their map I don't even want to hazard a guess.

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Wilkins and this collaborator, or possible collaborator, Rosalind Franklin, came up and sort of laughed at our model.

To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt from a different context, the greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Waking up with Abraham Lincoln in the morning, thinking of Franklin Roosevelt when I went to bed at night.

In March 1933, shortly after ascending to the presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat down to lunch in the Oval Office.

But Wilkins said no. Rosalind Franklin was leaving in about two months, and after she left he would start building models.

I teach at the Science Leadership Academy, which is a partnership school between the Franklin Institute and the school district of Philadelphia.

Well, along comes Benjamin Franklin, and he comes close to convulsing himself with a bolt of electricity off the end of his kite.

This is an excellent example of South South cooperation and good neighbourliness. It resonates with the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt and Simon Bolívar.

Third, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the rebus doctrine to suspend American obligations under the International Load Line Convention of 1930.

Moreover, much depends on external conditions. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman developed transformational objectives only in response to external events after they entered office.

The second is ideology. For some reason Bush and his people think it is important to undermine the successes of the New Deal institutions established under Franklin Roosevelt.

And Aretha Franklin was shouting R E S P E C T, the women's hips were swaying and little kids were trying to grab the paintbrushes, but it was their day.

Benjamin Franklin once said, In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Yet we have a tax that could prevent hundreds of millions of premature deaths.

So policy will have to change. Little can be hoped for in Europe the real question is whether President Barack Obama has it in him to don the mantle of President Franklin Roosevelt.

They might have argued that all should get it or none. But if they knew that Hitler s Germany would get it, they might have approved Franklin Roosevelt s decision to develop it before the Nazis.

Many people believed already before the war that economies and societies should be planned as much as possible. Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal was one example so, in a much more sinister way, was the fascist state.

Few will be ruined or imprisoned. But the banking system is sure to be re regulated, as it was after the Great Crash of 1929 1932, when President Franklin Roosevelt promised to drive the money changers from the temple.

Fiscal retrenchment amid weak private demand would lead to chronically high unemployment. Indeed, deficit cuts would court a reprise of 1937, when Franklin D. Roosevelt prematurely reduced the New Deal stimulus and thereby threw the United States back into recession.

The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who began his own unprecedented journey way back at his own first election, way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 the year Alberto Giacometti made The Palace at Four in the Morning.

I am a cultural omnivore, one whose daily commute is made possible by attachment to an iPod an iPod that contains Wagner and Mozart, pop diva Christina Aguilera, country singer Josh Turner, gangsta rap artist Kirk Franklin, concerti, symphonies and more and more.

Convened by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the massive refugee crisis triggered by Hitler s virulent anti Semitism, the Évian conference was a catastrophe. And its disastrous outcome needs to be recalled in the light of Europe s current migration crisis.

As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reputedly quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt Second class intellect, but first class temperament. Most historians would agree that Roosevelt s success as a leader rested more on his good nature than on his analytical skills.

Like Franklin Roosevelt, who acted very cautiously in trying to persuade American opinion to abandon isolationism in the 1930 s, Merkel has proceeded cautiously on saving the euro. She faced public skepticism about using German funds to bail out the Greek economy.

This was part of a wave of deregulation that swept away Franklin Roosevelt s promise to chase the money changers from the temple. Clinton also refused to regulate credit default swaps, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission allowed banks to triple their leverage.

The US Federal Reserve now proposes to stimulate the American economy by printing more money a second round of (quantitative easing, or QE2), to the tune of 600 billion. Almost no one remembers that President Franklin Roosevelt tried the same thing in 1933.

Franklin Roosevelt and Truman made crucial contributions. But, in judging leaders, we need to pay attention to acts of both omission and commission, to what happened and to what was avoided, to the dogs that barked and to those that did not.

With peace, the dollar and Wall Street became the dominant force on the world s financial landscape. The financial market rules established after 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal enabled the dollar to replace the British pound at the center of the international system.

The outcome may reflect the economy s slight improvement at election time (as happened when Franklin Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon in 1936, despite the continuing Great Depression). But Obama s victory might also be a testament to most US voters basic sense of economic reality.

Then came the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt s New Deal, and another 30 years of progressive politics, from the 1930 s to the 1960 s. The 1970 s were a transition period to the Age of Reagan 30 years of conservative politics led by powerful corporate interests.

The ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt haunts Barack Obama s United States. Historical arguments over whether FDR s New Deal worked now form an important part of American debates over current monetary and fiscal policy in general, and the US Federal Reserve s policy of quantitative easing in particular.

That was true of his relations with the public, but Johnson could be magnetic even overwhelming in personal contacts. One careful study of presidential rhetoric found that even such famous orators as Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan could not count on charisma to enact their programs.

Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system. Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990 s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt s crisis conditions of the 1930 s.

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, where the IMF and the World Bank were established, Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant.

In 1929, a crisis among speculating capitalists prompted poorly conceived and excessive reactions, leading to a deep and prolonged depression. Less than four years later, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt s newly elected government passed the Glass Steagall Act, which prohibited commercial banks from trading securities with clients deposits.

By contrast, in the 1930 s, President Franklin Roosevelt used a metaphor that remains very much alive today. The idea of a new deal was conceived during his first presidential election campaign in 1932, though at the time he was still very vague about what the term stood for.

Even such a great defender of freedom as Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus under the extreme conditions of the American Civil War. And such decisions may not be recognized as mistaken or unjust until later consider Franklin Roosevelt s internment of Japanese American citizens early in World War II.

In 1942, Karski, a Polish born diplomat, traveled to the United Kingdom to report on what came to be called the Holocaust. The next year, he embarked on a mission to the United States to brief President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries on the horrors that he had witnessed.

Kennedy s speech provoked a highly positive response from his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, who called in the US envoy and told him that the speech was the finest by any American president since Franklin Roosevelt. Within a few weeks, both sides had agreed to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Einstein may have drawn US President Franklin Roosevelt s attention to the possibility of making nuclear weapons, but he is chiefly remembered for his profound ideas about the nature of the universe. More recent scientific gurus, such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, have presented a similar image to the public.

LONDON On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one page paper that many believed would revolutionize biological research. Building on the work of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, they had discovered DNA s double helix structure, providing the first glimpse into how organisms inherit and store biological information.

NEW HAVEN In his First Inaugural Address, during the depths of the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously told Americans that, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Invoking the Book of Exodus, he went on to say that, We are stricken by no plague of locusts.