“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 the ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — On January 20, 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... just a little too late for Roosevelt’s first inauguration on March 4, 1933. The 20th Amendment changed more than the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 inauguration is the wettest on record ... FDR insisted on riding back "to the White House in an open car with a half an inch of water on the floor." ...

Meanwhile, presidential inaugurations have been scheduled for Jan. 20 since 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office back in 1937. Inauguration Days were previously set in early March ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was ... spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer was a fresh, ebullient, and unflinching voice in confronting the trials of the 1930s. As he said in his first ...