Frustrated with the opposition to his Supreme Court-packing plan, which would have increased the number of justices so that he could appoint people more sympathetic to his policies, FDR campaigned against several conservative Democratic lawmakers, including Walter George of Georgia and Ellison Smith of South Carolina.

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"Arrested Development" had its final broadcast on February 10, 2006 and concerned Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his eccentric family comprised of his son George Michael (Michael Cera), his father George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his brothers George Oscar Bluth II (Will Arnett), Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay Funke (Portia de Rossi), and Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross) and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat).

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It is an intellectual history, too, paying as much attention to thinkers such as John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr and George Kennan, whose arguments shaped the decisions of presidents, as to the doings of the presidents themselves.

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Both George Weightman, the head of Walter Reed, and Francis Harvey, the secretary of the army, were sacked.

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The list of 2010 decedents includes six billionaires: John Kluge, Walter Shorenstein, Paul Milstein, Dan Duncan, George Steinbrenner, and Mary Janet Cargill.

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Past guests have included Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Jon Stewart and even George Clooney.

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In 1822 Sir Walter Scott, a romantic novelist, was asked to stage-manage George IV's visit to Edinburgh.

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