It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president ... a privileged and respectable law career. Yet living the life of a lawyer soon bored him. He was admitted to the bar ...

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Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... Quincys', the Amorys' & the Thayers', three as high-life places as are to be found in blue-blooded, blue ...

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 ...

April 12, 2025, marks 80 years since former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death at the Little White House in Warm Springs. Hundreds of people gathered to remember his legacy. FDR died while in ...

P resident Donald Trump’s return to the White House has unleashed a flood of anxiety over the potential demise of what is ...

Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession headed down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., 1945. Nearly 300,000 people came to pay their respects. (Library of Congress) By signing up ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was ... Europe less than a month later. Explore the life of the president with a short biographical ...