American and British leaders were slow to share their growing knowledge of the Nazi campaign against Jews. Both strategy and ...

“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 ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined "Four Freedoms" in his State of the Union address of Jan. 6, 1941, as he prepared Americans for the inevitable entry into World War II.

The official program for Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 inauguration. National Museum of American History. Because of the celebration that surrounds them, inaugural addresses are expected to reflect ...

Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his "Four Freedoms" speech in 1941, days before beginning his third term.

"I am used to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself… But I think I have the right to resent, to object to, defamatory statements about my dog." These words were written in September 1944 by ...

President Franklin Roosevelt addressed a huge throng from the rear platform of his train at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 1937, upon his arrival at the Great Northern station in Spokane from Grand Coulee Dam.