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Presidential Speeches
… President Franklin Delano Roosevelt requests for Congress to declare war on the … base in Hawaii. In support of his request, President Roosevelt cites Japan’s planned attack and additional …
Presidential Speeches
… Franklin Roosevelt predicts Nazi intentions to gain control of the … and his subsequent invasions of European lands. Roosevelt also argues that “freedom of the seas” is essential …
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… world . . . hasn’t the instruments with which to work.” 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to the theme in 1939: “Only after this has … in fact political power. The bureau may have been neutral—Roosevelt’s budget director Harold Smith was a registered …
Issues raised throughout the history of the Office of Management are back with new urgency, warns Andrew Rudalevige
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… them to the court if he is deceased. President Theodore Roosevelt was still very much alive and in office when his … a banana I could carve a firmer backbone!” T.R.’s cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, won in the high court’s decision … order in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. But two of Franklin Roosevelt’s appointees, former Attorneys …
Would Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees vote against him? History suggests yes, writes Barbara Perry
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… old distinguished Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt. I don’t like the word progressives. The … wonderful. I was just re-reading No Ordinary Time, about Franklin and Eleanor [Roosevelt] and I thought that was terrific. I would think he …
Public Events
… War and at Peace. It's a revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency. Drawing on new evidence, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and proposal; it just tore it apart. It said, It’s not [Franklin] Roosevelt. That was the headline. And that’s right, it’s not Roosevelt. Young No, it couldn’t be. Lewis I guess it …
Presidential Biographies
… relationships. Some presidents, like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, flourish with the flexibility; others, including … on the future of the presidency. All his successors, until Franklin D. Roosevelt, willingly followed his example of …
Presidential Speeches
… Franklin Delano Roosevelt spells out his first Presidential term achievements … his second of four Presidential inaugurations. President Roosevelt concedes the incompletion of his work, describing …
Presidential Recordings
… -Lyndon B. Johnson -Toasts -Reaction of American people -Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef V. Stalin -President’s meeting with …
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… than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the … than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the …
Seven presidents—more than half of those who have served starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt—had the opportunity to nominate a member of the nation’s highest court during their first year in office. But no president in this period had a Supreme Court vacancy waiting for him as he entered the White House, giving him the opportunity to nominate a justice in the first two weeks of his presidency.
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… to consume media, innovative politicians like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert … in Cuba—a tactic that brought publicity rewards when “Roosevelt’s Rough Riders” became a symbol of American … his successors reshaped it. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt, presidential administrations experimented …
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… corruption, and presidential whims. President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal vastly increased the pace of this … the commissioners and therefore they could remove them, Roosevelt reasoned. Yet the act creating the FTC explicitly …
President Trump has defied political norms established to protect federal agencies from partisan interference
Presidential Speeches
… invitation somewhat rendered to me in the same way that Franklin Roosevelt rendered his invitation to Mr. MacLeish, …
Presidential Recordings
… -[Jack N. Anderson] stories -Timing -Possible tone -Franklin D. Roosevelt relatives -Use of name H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -John …
Presidential Speeches
… President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers the Inaugural Address following his … and stresses the importance of addressing this issue. Roosevelt pledges to propose solutions to aid in the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… back to where it had been in the Great Society, and with [Franklin D.] Roosevelt and the New Deal. The Senator was really the voice … of business would have been rolled back to before Teddy Roosevelt if Gingrich had had his way, and there was reason …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… There’s a school of thought, going all the way back to [Franklin] Roosevelt’s decision on Social Security in the 1930s, that if …
Presidential Speeches
… President Franklin Roosevelt celebrates the 150 year anniversary of …
Presidential Speeches
… In his State of the Union Address, Franklin Roosevelt informs Congress of America’s responsibility to be … United States. To combat this potential threat, President Roosevelt suggests an “increase in armament production,” to …