Less than four years before he was awarded the Democratic presidential nomination instead of Al Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to a fellow political insider in Grand Forks expressing his ...

The two-term presidential limit was a mere custom established when George Washington stepped down voluntarily after eight ...

Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 days in office, no president has matched the ... say the conditions leading to Roosevelt’s election may never be repeated.

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt ... Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 presidential election.

Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t ...

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the ...

In his first 100 days, FDR calmed and unified the country. In his, Donald Trump has terrified and further divided us.

The American century is over and we’re heading toward something new, believes author and commentator Gabriel Gatehouse. Here, he considers the precise moment that will go down in history as changing t ...

But how did the seemingly arbitrary metric even become a thing? It all started with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the nation's 32nd president. Roosevelt, who took office in 1933 and steered ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to a fellow political insider in Grand Forks expressing his hope to see then-Gov. Smith elected president of the United States. "Roosevelt eventually succeeded ...