White and The Two Roosevelts
White developed a friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt in the 1890s that lasted until Roosevelt's death in 1919. Roosevelt spent several nights at White's Wight and Wight-designed home, Red Rocks, during trips across the United States. White was to say later, "Roosevelt bit me and I went mad." Later, White supported much of the New Deal, but voted against Franklin D. Roosevelt every time. In 1940-41 he headed the interventionist Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, fighting the isolationists who wanted to distance the U.S. from the war in Europe..
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“We should always be prepared so as never to err to believe that what I see as white is black, if the hierarchic Church defines it thus.”
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