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<h3><span id="Genealogy" class="mw-headline">Genealogy</span></h3>
<p>The Roosevelts had been in New York since the mid-17th century. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family of Dutch origin; by the 19th century, the family had grown in wealth, power and influence from the profits of several businesses including hardware and plate-glass importing. The family was strongly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Democratic_Party" title="History of the United States Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democratic</a> in its political affiliation until the mid-1850s, then joined the new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party" title="History of the United States Republican Party">Republican Party</a>. Theodore's father, known in the family as "Thee", was a New York City <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy" title="Philanthropy">philanthropist</a>, merchant, and partner in the family glass-importing firm Roosevelt and Son. He was a prominent supporter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_%28American_Civil_War%29" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> effort during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. </p>
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His mother Mittie Bulloch was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_belle" title="Southern belle">Southern belle</a> from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slave</a>-owning family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell,_Georgia" title="Roswell, Georgia">Roswell, Georgia</a> and had quiet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> sympathies. Mittie's brother, Theodore's uncle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dunwoody_Bulloch" title="James Dunwoody Bulloch">James Dunwoody Bulloch</a>, was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> officer who became a Confederate admiral and naval procurement agent in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">Britain</a>. Another uncle, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Bulloch" title="Irvine Bulloch">Irvine Bulloch</a>, was a midshipman on the Confederate raider <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama" title="CSS Alabama">CSS <i>Alabama</i></a>; both remained in England after the war.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#cite_note-5"><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></sup></a> From his grandparents' home, the young Roosevelt witnessed Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession when it came through New York.</p><p></p><p>
</p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The shah, Washington’s closest ally in the Persian Gulf, had fled Tehran in January 1979 in the face of a burgeoning uprising against his 38 years of iron-fisted rule. Liberals, leftists and religious conservatives were rallying against him. Strikes and demonstrations had shut down Tehran, and his security forces were losing control.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The shah sought refuge in America. But President Jimmy Carter, hoping to forge ties to the new government rising out of the chaos and concerned about the security of the United States Embassy in Tehran, refused him entry for the first 10 months of his exile. Even then, the White House only begrudgingly let him in for medical treatment.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, a newly disclosed secret history from the offices of Mr. Rockefeller shows in vivid detail how Chase Manhattan Bank and its well-connected chairman worked behind the scenes to persuade the Carter administration to admit the shah, one of the bank’s most profitable clients.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For Mr. Carter, for the United States and for the Middle East it was an incendiary decision.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The ensuing hostage crisis enabled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to consolidate his theocratic rule, started a four-decade conflict between Washington and Tehran that is still roiling the region and helped Ronald Reagan take the White House. To American policymakers, Iran became a parable about the political perils in the fall of a friendly strongman.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although Mr. Carter complained publicly at the time about the pressure campaign, the full, behind-the-scenes story — laid out in the recently disclosed documents — has never been told.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mr. Rockefeller’s team called the campaign Project Eagle, after the code name used for the shah. Exploiting clubby networks of power stretching deep into the White House, Mr. Rockefeller mobilized a phalanx of elder statesmen.</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They included Henry A. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kissinger, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the former secretary of state and the chairman of a Chase advisory board; John J. McCloy, the former commissioner of occupied Germany after World War II and an adviser to eight presidents as well as a future Chase chairman; a Chase executive and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">former C.I.A. agent, Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr., whose cousin, the C.I.A. agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr.,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> had orchestrated a 1953 coup to keep the shah in power; and Richard M. Helms</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, a former director of the C.I.A. and former ambassador to Iran.</span></div><p>===</p>