In 1936, while campaigning for a second term, FDR told a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden that “The forces of ‘organized money’ are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” He went on: “I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it...
rear garden that had been unkempt and was unusable. The client did not wish to sell the property but instead wanted to develop the site in order to hold onto it long term. The client and FDR decided to propose a "Build to rent" scheme that would be given to a Housing Association to ...
In 1936, while campaigning for a second term, FDR told a roaring crowd at Madison Square Garden that “The forces of ‘organized money’ are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” He went on: “I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it...
Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and what its spells for the second term of President Bill Clinton. At his post-election news conference in November 1996, Clinton said that he hoped to avoid the second term problems of ...
The report issued this morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that real GDP grew at only 1.3 percent in the second quarter and revising the estimate of growth in the first quarter down to 0.3 percent is really depressing (pun intended). This reminds
Encouraged by Roosevelt, who originally hoped to retire at the end of his second term, Hopkins briefly entertained thoughts of the presidency. His hopes were further legitimized when Roosevelt appointed him secretary of commerce in December 1938. Hopkins’ tenure as commerce secretary, however, ...
Currently the second-largest car maker in the world, Volkswagen was founded in 1937 by a Nazi trade union organization to create an automobile that every German family could own. The original logo was designed to mirror a swastika or the now infamous Nazi symbol. ...
health reform effort until later in his term. Instead, he pressed to get the reform passed in his first year. The president repeatedly set deadlines for Congress. Stall In The Senate However, long negotiations between Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) ...
United States presidential election of 1940, American presidentialelectionheld on November 5, 1940, in whichDemocratFranklin D. RooseveltdefeatedRepublicanWendell L. Willkie. By becoming the firstpresidentto win a third term, Roosevelt broke the two-term precedent established by the country’s first pr...
Surmising that additional action was required, Roosevelt introduced a “Second New Deal” in 1935 that included theSocial Security Actand theWorks Progress Administration. In addition, the Democratic Congress also passed a major tax revision—labeled by its opponents as a “soak-the-rich” tax—th...