Topic: Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Barack Obama occupies the most powerful political office in the world, but when it comes to managing the economy he -- and his predecessors -- are more impotent than many Americans believe.It is a truism of American politics that the president ...
The Republican Party first formed in 1854 as a progressive political party that opposed slavery and advocated for an economy based upon free-market labor. 1860 marked the greatest success of the Republican Party up to this point, when Abraham Lincoln was elected ...
Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism is, immediately after the cover is opened, a surprise. The answer is difficult for a movement that manifests itself differently everywhere it appears, but Jonah settles early on by calling it a totalitarian religion of the state. ...
I am a student of history, and studied 20th Century American History as part of my master's degree studies. Roosevelt would identify the key players in a piece of legislation, and he would summon them to the White House. Sometimes, when I ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not only one of the mostinfluential Democratic Presidents, but a pioneer in liberalism. Roosevelt, now,is remembered as a champion of liberalism, due to his ideologies on the role ofgovernment, the actions he took to guide the United States ...
As much as we are accustomed today to presidents serving two consecutive terms, this was not always so. Then along came FDR in the midst of the calamity of the Great Depression and World War II who was elected to an unprecedented ...
"Do It Yourself" Sounds Good To Us These Days by Michael D. Hume, M.S. Big Government, Big Media, Big Medicine, Big Everybody, take note: we're starting to ask ourselves what, exactly, we need you for. The mood is changing in the United ...
The article offers commentary on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's study of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and on how Obama will react to labor unrest. The Nation.4 December 29, 2008 Sit-Down in Chicago When Barack Obama revealed after the election that he ...
The Tea Party Convention in Nashville was another expression of what the founders had in mind when they wrote our Constitution, " They don't like being told to shut-up until election day and then to vote only for those the elites have ...
One would have to go back to the 1930s or perhaps the 1970s to find an Administration as hostile to economic innovation and growth as this one is. Franklin Roosevelt clearly thought that the age of great industrial advancement was over and ...
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Archives FDR Papers
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President First Pitches
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FDR Papers
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President Franklin Roosevelt 1933 Inauguration
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address
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FDR 1936 I welcome their hatred
Extract from famous 1936 speech in Madison square garden. That ...2009-01-15
