Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1932 election is featured. Author Scott Martelle provided historical context for this election. In the 1932 presidential ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is the only president in ... suffered significant losses in the 1938 Congressional midterm elections. The president’s ability to pass new legislation was severely ...

She talked with Salie about participating in her 22nd presidential election, the importance ... newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted 25% unemployment, sweeping poverty ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the declaration of war ... Roosevelt and Torgeson the month before the 1928 presidential election showed both men's personal investment in the trajectory ...

In 1944, after nearly twelve years in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Eight decades after Roosevelt’s final campaign, America is again confronting an election defined by the ...

Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory is reminiscent of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s in 1932 in that, in each, the voters gave permission to transform the relationship between the citizens and ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933 ... Congress restored two of the seats upon the election of Ulysses S. Grant, who nominated new justices on the same day the court issued ...

Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons. First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term ...