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… the Great Depression, and then the Second World War, Franklin D. Roosevelt ran a command economy. For a time, he shut down the … private communications. The National Archives reports of Roosevelt’s Office of Censorship, “At its peak, in September …
Congress’s hesitancy to do its job would have puzzled the Constitution’s framers, argues Russell Riley
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… the Federal Writers's Project (1936-1940) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. This site provides a …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… with. The either implicit, if not explicit, thought from Franklin Roosevelt onward, that we would come to the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the state twice for Democrats since [Harry] Truman, no [Franklin] Roosevelt, and that’s the truth. Once my father was Jack … for making major headway. Of course, the South was, as Roosevelt said, the major problem in the Depression years, …
Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… of it. I said, Well, Clem, my hero in history is Benjamin Franklin and if you have something of Benjamin Franklin, that would be very nice. My wife’s hero is Thomas … Carter did, it would be—or the way Ford did, or [Franklin] Roosevelt did, or [Harry] Truman did—you really have to work …
Presidential Biographies
… Johnson's administration also extended the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, including aid to education, Headstart, …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… or significantly, unlike[Harry] Truman, who came in after [Franklin D.] Roosevelt’s death and within three months had a whole new …
Presidential Recordings
… Legislative agenda -Post-election -Polls -George Killian -Franklin D. Roosevelt -Election victories -George Washington -Roosevelt -Alfred M. (“Alf”) Landon -Harry S Truman -Lyndon …
Presidential Recordings
… people met Greetings Cabinet Room table -Jesse H. Jones -Franklin D. Roosevelt White House operators -Lyndon B. Johnson 12 NIXON … Williams -Organization Past campaigns -Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson Campaign to promote …
Presidential Recordings
… -Portraits -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower The tour group left at an … of Signing of Declaration -Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin -Artist -Value [Unintelligible] The unknown people …
Presidential Biographies
… Charles Franklin Brannan was born in 1903 in Denver, Colorado. He … same year he was admitted to the Colorado bar. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Brannan assistant regional counsel for the …
Presidential Speeches
… In his State of the Union Address, Franklin Roosevelt honors the soldiers’ efforts during the past year, … first year of United States’ involvement in World War II. Roosevelt outlines his intentions to “advance” against the …
Presidential Biographies
… the cabinet. During his time, however, a key component of Franklin Roosevelt's coalition left the Democratic fold: …
Presidential Biographies
… became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. During his nearly eight years in … investigating government defense spending. President Franklin D. Roosevelt chose Truman as his running mate in the …
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… executives in the modern era? Starting with Theodore Roosevelt, one of the first 20th-century presidents, … experiences from early childhood to young adulthood. Franklin Roosevelt’s father was 54 at the birth of his son, suffered …
Optimism despite painful personal loss is a common presidential trait.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… my bedroom door when [Alfred] Landon was running against [Franklin D.] Roosevelt in 1936. I also remember watching a torchlight …
Presidential Speeches
… of the country. So that we must do also. As Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot did it in years past, …
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… discord and bigotry. Yet as Felix Frankfurter once said of Franklin Roosevelt’s pioneering radio fireside chats, FDR had a …
Presidential Biographies
… former secretary of commerce (and vice president during Roosevelt's third term), Henry Wallace, announced his … a strategy similar to that employed by President Roosevelt. At the Democratic National Convention in July … believed that his earlier run for the presidency, against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, had suffered from his …
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… prospects and agendas. Accidental presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson typically feel obliged to assure … office with decisive popular mandates—Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan—enjoy … Franklin Roosevelt understood what Jackson did not. Roosevelt’s path to the White House had been smoothed by …
The different ways in which presidents enter the White House often shape their first-year prospects and agendas.