There's a long-standing myth repeated, among others, by the Obama Administration, that FDR hung Herbert Hoover out to dry after the 1932 election, refusing to help the president try and right the economy so that it would be extra bad by the time he took...
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Pretty amazing footage of FDR doing his best to walk at the 1937 All-Star Game. Unfortunately, it's narrated by the wife of Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, a horrible governor.
On May 6, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7034 creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Passed and funded by Congress in the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of.
Another classic, this time from Edge of the American West: Gives the Good Neighbor policy a new meaning.
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, bringing the modern welfare state to the American people and providing the nation’s poor long-desired old age.
During the discussion around my piece calling for international safety standards at the workplace with real enforcement teeth that could implicate American corporations subcontracting with unscrupulous employers, a reader suggested.
If you've never seen this cartoon by Chuck Jones from Looney Tunes and produced by the United Auto Workers in support of FDR's 1944 re-election, do yourself a favor and check it out. This is quality political art. I want to ride that FDR bullet...
I'm still having trouble seeing Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt, but he does have the look down. Also, I'm really glad Murray refuses to do Ghostbusters 3.
When discussing the Flint sit-down strike of 1937 last weekend, I noted John Nance Garner's support for using soldiers to bust the strike. It reminded of just how awful Garner.
How do you celebrate your 52nd birthday if you are Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Toga party of course. Via
This is kind of interesting; the argument is that FDR may have been suffering from cancer during the 1944 Presidential campaign. The evidence of illness, they suggest, was covered up.
Shorter Verbatim Jonah Goldberg: "...this election year does look quite a bit like Hoover vs. Roosevelt (and given that choice, I'll take Hoover.)" He goes on to defend the constitutional.