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an excerpt from:
The Strange Death of FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
A History of the Roosevelt-Delano Dynasty America's Royal Family
Emanuael M. Josephson�1948
CHEDNEY PRESS
127 East 69th Street
New York 21, N. Y.
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CHAPTER VIII
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the pathetic puppet of the conspirators
scheming the destruction of democracy and the establishment of an American
monarchy. For the role for which he was picked, he had every qualification.
F.D.R. was a direct scion of both the Roosevelt and Delano clans. On the
Roosevelt side, he was descended from Claas Martenszen van Rosenvelt (or
Rosenfeld) descendants of proselytized Sephardic Jews who had settled in
Holland and later migrated to New Amsterdam in 1649. Claas, his son, was
father of Johannes, the direct ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt, and of
Jacobus, the direct ancestor of F. D. R.
Jacobus Roosevelt married one of the most affluent and picturesque woman of
the time, Catherina Hardenbroeck. According to tradition, she was the hardest
drinking, hardest cussing, hardest fighting woman who ever sailed before her
own mast as skipper in the rum, molasses, slave and smuggling trade. Isaac,
her son, was the man whose invitation to attend a wife's funeral, was
rejected by George Washington because of a question of propriety.
The intervening ancestors were German, Swedish, and principally English, so
that the original Dutch strain is thoroughly diluted. Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, 26th president was a fifth cousin. F. D. R.'s half-niece, Helen
Rebecca Roosevelt married Theodore Douglas Robinson, son of Theodore
Roosevelt's sister Corinne, the grandmother of Joseph and Stewart Alsop, the
columnists.
By direct line of descent-from Thomas Shepard and Anne Tyng, John Adams,
second president, and John Quincy Adams, sixth, were sixth and seventh
cousins. But the relationship of the two branches of the family have ben
maintained in closer degree by intermar. riage. The marriage of Fred B. Adams
to Ellen W. Delano, a first cousin of F.D.R. has been mentioned.
Less directly, through intermarriage of the Van Deursens and the Van Burens,
F.D.R.'s. great grandfather was a third cousin of Martin Van Buren, eighth
presi. dent.
On the Delano side F. D. R. was more or less remotely related to George
Washington, James Madison, 4th president, General William Henry Harrison, 9th
president, General Zachary Taylor, 12th president, Andrew Johnson, 17th
president, General Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president, General Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd president and William Howard Taft, 27th president. As has been
stated, President Grant was F.D.R.'s closest relative among the presidents.
It has been noted also that on the Delano side, F. D. R. proudly traces his
ancestry to the King of England, Henry II, and through the Astors, by
marriage, to George VI. The numerous inter. marriages with European nobility
have been mentioned. The royal background and ancestry were calculated to
engender ambitions and fire the aspirations of a Pretender to an American
throne; and the Dynasty's influence has made it a possibility.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the son of fifty-two year old James Roosevelt,
vice-president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, director of several other
corporations and retired country squire, and Sara Delano, twenty-six year old
daughter of Warren Delano, merchant and clipper ship operator in the China
trade, who made a sizeable fortune in opium smuggling. This was his father's
second marriage.
By the first marriage F. D. R. had a half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt,
a banker and appointee to the diplomatic corps by Grover Cleveland, a friend
of his father. It is amusing to note that this brother has been kept a dark
secret by the New Dealers because it would not be compatible with the
picture of F. D. R. "throwing the money lenders out of the temple". James
Roosevelt Roosevelt's first wife was Helen Schermer. horn Astor, daughter of
the society leader, Mrs. William B. Astor and aunt of Vincent Astor.
Sara Delano Roosevelt, dominating mother, did not send her boy to school to
mix with schoolmates but kept him home under the tutelage first of French and
German governesses, and then of tutors until he was fourteen Almost every
year he was taken to Europe for several months. He attended public school at
Nauheim two years, studying map reading and military topography. At an early
age he conceived a great admiration for things German and became thoroughly
imbued with Prussian militarism, and their lust for war on land, and
especially, on sea. Summers were spent at Campobello.
Under the influence of his mother, who was derived from a sea-faring family
and whose cousin, according to Daniel W. Delano (Pic, July 8, 1941), had
designed and built the first armor-clad, screw-driven warship, F. D. R.'s
keenest interest, at the age of twelve, was warships and navies.
At fourteen he was sent to school at Groton, which tries to be ever so
British and mimics Eton. At eighteen he entered Harvard. He did little
studying but managed to get by His social life was more successful; and he
attained an editorship on the Crimson. His guiding star was his distant
cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. In his conversation he talked so much about his
birth, social position and aspirations that he was twitted by his classmates
about his "Royal Family". In 1904 he left Harvard and went to Columbia Law
School.
Shortly after he had entered Harvard, F. D. R.'s father died. In his will he
intimated that he did not trust Franklin's competence and left him nothing
outright but merely $100,000 in trust. His mother inherited the estate, held
the purse strings and "managed" him.
She took up residence near Harvard to superintend his education.
Against his mother's will, F. D. R. proposed to Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of
President Theodore Roosevelt. It is apparent that F.D.R. was dazzled by his
distant cousin in the White House and that Eleanor's close relationship to
him gave added lure. When the point for opposition had passed, Sara- Delano
acquiesced. Teddy gave his niece, and godchild, away on March 17, 1905 at the
homes of Eleanor's cousin, Mrs Henry Parish, Jr. and of her mother, Mrs. E.
Livingston Ludlow, 6 and 8 East Seventy-sixth Street, New York City.
F.D.R. had no resources of his own. He was completely dependent on his
mother's gifts, and she bossed the newlyweds thoroughly. She provided them a
house at Hyde Park, a summer home at Campobello, and built for him a house
adjoining her own on East Sixty-fifth Street. The bride reports she had no
voice in the furnishing of her own homes. But marriage to Eleanor had its
rewards for F. D. R. He was now especially welcome and became a frequent
guest at the White House or at the home of Theodore Roosevelt's
brother-in-law, Rear Admiral William Sheffield Cowles and he came in closer
contact with his hero, the ruling Dynast. He had an opportunity to become
thoroughly imbued with tradition and methods, and was able to make contacts
which served him well later. He learned at first hand from the Master the use
of showmanship and opportunism as political tools.
F. D. R. was uninterested in his law studies and was never able to graduate
in law. He had no patience with rules or laws. As a spoiled brat he had
always changed the rules of games to suit his whims. As a Dynastic heir, lie
planned to make his own laws, in the fashion of a Pasha. He gloried in the
idea of laying down the law. Whenever he signed a new bill, even on his dying
day, he would say to his secretary: "Here is where I make a new law." (Time,
April 23, 1945, p. 18). But the influence of the Dynasty was great. The Bar
Association made a rare exception in his case and admitted him to the Bar
without a law degree; and, it is reported, without a rigid examination. He
was given a job by his cousin's (Sara Delano, daughter of Warren Delano III)
husband Roland L. Redmond, senior partner of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn.
His chief interest during this period, as previously, was military and naval
history. He spent a large part of his time at Hyde Park in the role of
country squire, and in summer at Campobello. His mother was still his main
source of income for the support of his family. Indicative of his breadth of
mind was the clause that appeared regularly in his advertisements for help
for Hyde Park: "No Catholic need apply." This antiCatholicism in later
political activities was thinly disguised, but repeatedly emerged, and James
Farley need not have been surprised at the treatment he received.
F. D. R.'s start in politics he owed to the power of the Dynasty and the
popularity of the Roosevelt name. The members of the Dynasty then in control
of the local political machine provided the opportunity. Chief Theodore
Roosevelt was then engaged in vengefully wrecking the Republican Party and
defeating Taft in the interest of Morgan. F. D. R. was dilly-dallying with
law and other avocations at the time but was not making a living and had to
be provided for. And he could not be provided for better than to place him on
the public payroll where he could serve the Dynasty. They gave him the
nomination for State Senator for Dutchess County and Putnam County, the old
stamping ground of Martin Van Buren who had built up the political machine in
that district almost a century earlier. His running mate for the Assembly was
a distant relative, Louis Stuyvesant Chanter, great-great grandson of John
Jacob Astor. The Senate district had always been Republican and it was not
expected that there was any chance that the Democratic candidate would win.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle commented on the situation:
"Presumably his (F. D. R.'s) contribution to the campaign funds goes
well above four figures but the Republican nominee will not be disturbed by
Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy."
But Theodore Roosevelt had disrupted the Republican Party in New York,
characteristically following the pattern of disgruntled ex-officeholders of
the ever treacherous and disloyal Dynasty, and had assured a victory to the
opposition, the Democratic Party. F.D.R. was carried in by the landslide.
In the campaign he showed that he had learned from his paragon, Theodore
Roosevelt, the device of catch-penny demagoguery which later proved a
favorite device throughout his career. In the campaign there were elements of
Ku Klux Klanism; and F. D. R. shone in the light of champion of the
Protestant White Americans. Though his nomination had been given him by the
local Dynastic bosses who controlled both parties, he made a sham fight on
"Bossism" and a pretense of deserting his social class, for demagogic appeal.
F.D.R. proved an apt pawn.
In the New York State Senate, the upstate Dynasty political machine once
again made good use of the Roosevelt name and built, up the repute of their
man, F.D.R. The occasion was the unpopular plan for nomination of William
Sheehan, candidate of Tammany's boss, Charley Murphy, to succeed United
States Senator Chauncey Depew. Six district leaders, as well as J. Sergeant
Cram, chairman of the New York Democratic County Committee, worked actively
for his defeat.
The "fight" took the form of "passive resistance", refusal to attend the
Democratic caucus, so that the majority would not be present. In all,
seventeen Democrats under the leadership of the Osbornes led the "fight".
Most of the upstate Democratic leaders who traditionally opposed Tammany,
sought Sheehan's defeat. The influence of the Dynasty plus the news value of
the Roosevelt name combined to credit the "fight" on Sheehan to F. D. R. and
rob the Osbornes of credit for their leadership. The New York Times was
particularly helpful in thus building up F. D. R. Inasmuch as the Times,
belying its early-day virility and the public spirit that marked its fight on
Tweed, has made obsequiousness to the powers that be its consistent policy,
there can be seen the hand of Theodore Roosevelt and the Dynasty in the
"build-up" of cousin F. D. R.
Word got around that there was an important element of anti-Catholicism in
Roosevelt's opposition to Sheehan. In view of his previous exhibitions of
anti- Catholicism and the Klu Klux Klanism, this was not surprising. With the
objective of allaying resentment thus aroused, the "insurgents", after a
prolonged holdout, voted for a Tammany candidate of Murphy's, Justice James
A. O'Gorman.
Once he had gained the limelight, F. D. R. had no difficulty in holding it.
In whatever he did he had the backing of the Dynasty and he played to the
gallery with all the studied effort that he had learned from his cousin
"Teddy". The Dynasty had prepared some new raw material for the White House
to carry on its line of succession.
Roosevelt's campaign for reelection to the State Sen. ate brought on the
scene Louis McHenry Howe. He largely accounts for any element of political
talent that Roosevelt is supposed to have possessed. Howe took over at the
point that the Dynastic bosses left off. He was a one man "brain trust" who
cooperated with a full time staff of reliable workers, including Margaret
LeHand, in creating the Roosevelt known to the public, about whom there
centered the Roosevelt myth. Before F. D. R. had reached the point where
Rockefeller subsidized professional staffs did his thinking for him, Louis
Howe did the job single-handed. Much of what the public has been led to
believe is the personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is merely a
reflection of his ghost personality, his ghost thinker and ghost writer,
Louis Howe.
Howe, who was the Albany correspondent of the New York Herald and Telegram,
took complete con. trol of Roosevelt's 1912 renomination campaign. Roosevelt
was stricken with typhoid fever at the time. An uncannily shrewd politician
who had studied the game from a point of vantage in Albany for many years,
Howe drew up a platform for cooperative distributing and shipping societies
and farmer's banks, with licensing of commission merchants by the State
Department of Agriculture, which he knew the farmers had sought and would
acclaim. On this platform of which Roosevelt had never conceived and had not
the slightest knowledge, Howe secured his boss's reelection. From then until
his death, Louis Howe was F. D. R.'s alter and wiser ego.
pps. 95-102
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Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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