Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and ...

Keynes urged the President to focus on the “recovery, use public debt for the process and keep aside exchange rate stability ...

In 1933, during the Great Depression, newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted 25% ... President Trump marked the D-Day anniversary by reading an excerpt from a prayer ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

Unlike bad economic policy, which can generally be revived through good economic policy, a deep fraying of Americans' trust ...

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” were wise words from Franklin ... D. Roosevelt’s inauguration speech. At the time of his first term in 1933, Americans were down-trodden from ...

Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive orders that can be swiftly challenged in court.

April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s earliest and most successful New Deal policies combating the Great Depression of the 1930s. Roosevelt promised “bold ...

What is the purpose of government? In an uncertain economy and unstable society, its most vital role is to protect ...