Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Articles

• CAMPAIGN: The Squire of Hyde Park
  Feb. 1, 1932
  Through the door of the Presidential suite in Washington's Hotel Willard one afternoon last week peeped a lady with the reputation of being the wisest of her clan —Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Beside her peeped pretty Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary of War. "Isn't it killing?" giggled Mrs. Hurley. "Very funny," admitted Mrs. ...
• F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy
  Feb. 1, 1982 | By Otto Friedrich
  COVER STORY A new look at the New Deal, how it changed us and what it teaches us Joint sessions of the Congress of the United States are rare and stately rituals, and it is rare indeed that they occur twice within a few days. This week, with a fanfare of ironies and contradictions, that ...
• Milestones, Jun. 28, 1937
  Jun. 28, 1937
  Wedding-of-the-Year (See front cover) In tiny Christ Church at Christiana Hundred, Del. next week, retired Powder-maker Eugene du Pont will give in marriage his eldest daughter Ethel to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., third son and namesake of the U. S. President. To hundreds of thousands of U. S. citizens for whom the Duke & Duchess ...
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945)
  Dec. 31, 1999 | By Doris Kearns Goodwin
  He raised the edifice of the American Century by restoring a nation's promise of plenty and by intervening to save a world enveloped in darkness
• THE PRESIDENCY: Taking It
  Jul. 31, 1939
  The strong chin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with the cigaret-holder slanting rakishly upward above a cloven bulb that is the delight of world cartoonists, last week took a series of blows such as no President of the U. S. ever suffered and survived. The blows would not, of course, have fallen had Mr. Roosevelt not ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Blog Posts

• Nation
  A Filibuster-Proof Majority?
  Apr. 28, 2009
• Nation
  JM Keynes' Advice For Presidents Past, Present and Future
  Dec. 12, 2008
• Nation
  FDR - One More Time
  Jun. 26, 2007
• Nation
  FDR Tribute
  Jun. 18, 2007
• Nation
  The Bellwether Blues?
  Jul. 8, 2009

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Photo Essays & Graphics

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  The World at War and FDR's Key Decisions

  The U.S. was isolationist in the 1930s - a sentiment F.D.R. struggled to overcome. After war broke out, he helped the Allies when he could, but the U.S. officially remained on the sidelines until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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  Presidents and Their Dogs

  The Obamas select a Portuguese water dog to join them in the White House, continuing a long tradition of Presidential first dogs

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Videos

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  March of TIME: FDR in 1936

  In this excerpt from the March of TIME Archives, the 1936 newsreel recaps the first four years of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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  The Iconic Photo of FDR

  Near his home, in his car, cigarette in hand, on the 4th of July. FDR was at ease and smiling in one of the most memorable photos taken of him

Franklin Delano Roosevelt TIME Covers

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• Jun 10, 1940
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• Nov 24, 2008
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