In facing the Great Depression, the president focused on the challenge before him in warlike terms: In this world of ours in other lands, there are some people, who, in times past, have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have ...
While multiple presidents had sought third terms before, the instability of the times allowed FDR to make a strong case for stability. Franklin D. Roosevelt Warns of Difficult War “You have economic-domestic issues and you have foreign policy with the outbreak of World War II in 1939,” ...
for example, started a march of progress during his seven years in the Presidency but, after four years of President Taft, little was left of the progress that had been made. Think of the great liberal achievements
Lyndon Baines Johnson, commonly known asLBJ, was the 36th US president, serving from 1963 until 1969. Johnson’s nickname has an interesting history. Before they were used to refer to him, the initialsLBJwere commonly used to refer to his home in Texas, theLBJ Ranch, during his time in ...
After this first meeting between a U.S. president and a Saudi king, FDR would leave behind a unique gift.
Prior to the President’s court-packing attempt, the Supreme Court contained nine Justices who followed the economic regime of “laissez-faire” where conserving property rights were considered before the needs of the people.9Named “the Lochner era” after the Supreme Court Case of 1905, during...
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But although progressives often return to this FDR quote for inspiration and guidance, they neglect to understand the speech’s place in the FDR story. The speech was delivered after the major New Deal reforms were enacted, not before. It’s not an example of how a successful president chose...
In one tweet, Ocasio-Cortez informed her 4.41 million followers that the United States “ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII.” “It is such a shameful history that we largely ignore it,” she said. “These camps occurs throughout history. Many refus...
at Campobello from 1883 on. The 34-room building now known as the FDR summer home was built on Passamaquoddy Bay in 1897, and it became Franklin and Eleanor's summer home after they married. They made their last trips to the island in the late 1930s, during Franklin's early presidency....