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Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 days in office, no president has matched the sheer drama and disruption of that 15-week sprint in 1933, which rewrote the relationship ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States' 32nd president, had many Christmas traditions with his family and staff during his time in office. Roosevelt even grew Christmas trees on his New York land.
In 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Grand Forks banker he hoped to see Al Smith elected president Four years later, Roosevelt would be selected as the Democratic nominee instead of Smith, and ...
When Joe Biden became president in 2021, one of the first things he did was hang a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt above the Oval Office fireplace. This was the first clue about how he ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country through the Great Depression and World War II, but was also the only ...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s desk is shown at his library as a visitor examines information at the national historic site in Hyde Park on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Ninety-two years ago this month—Saturday, March 4, 1933, to be exact—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one hand on his family’s age-worn Dutch bible opened to 1 Corinthians 13, was sworn in as the ...
Georgia's 80th FDR remembrance Eighty years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, died. Today, people gathered in Warm Springs to remember his legacy.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security bill into law on this day in history, Aug. 14, 1935, creating a federal safety net for older, unemployed and disadvantaged Americans.
While the observation will outrage Democrats and Republicans alike, in terms of style, not politics, President-elect Donald Trump is reminiscent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The only other presidents who have been able to do that were Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt," said Todd Belt, a political analyst. The American Rescue Plan sent COVID-19 relief ...
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Wars on Civil Liberties Without question these two books are revisionist efforts that reflect profound reservations about Wilson and Roosevelt that stem from ...