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Nicknamed "Archikins", this fifth child of President Roosevelt was a distinguished commander
of U.S. forces in both World War I and II.

During WWII, Archie's bravery at the head of a joint American-Australian Infantry division earned him
the distinction of naming a key battleground as "Roosevelt Ridge".

After World War II, Archie worked as an executive of the Sinclair Oil Company, and worked at
the brokerage firm of Roosevelt & Cross.

One of the few non-alcoholics to sit on the Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Archie also associated
with extreme right wing groups such as the John Birch Society, and took great offense at the
anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960's. Archie also founded the Veritas Foundation which sought to purge presumed socialist influences at Harvard and other educational institutions.

In 1971, Grace was killed in an automobile accident where Archie was the driver. Inconsolable, Archie introverted
himself at his home in Hobe Sound, Florida, where he died from a stroke in 1979 at the age of 85.