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Yes, FDR warned of 'selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests'
Then-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the remark during his "Four Freedoms" speech in 1941, days before ...
America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before
The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, ...
Lawsuits, executive actions, confirmations and golf trips: Key moments in Trump’s first 100 days
Trump’s rat-a-tat executive orders and flood-the-zone approach to major policy proposals have overwhelmed Americans’ ...
FDR's 1939 State of the Union: Warning About Threats to Religion From Abroad
The address was one for the ages, not just for what it predicted, but that religious liberty was under attack by the Nazis.
Juggling dynamite? At 100 days in office, Donald Trump is no Franklin D. Roosevelt
Both Donald Trump and Frankin D. Roosevelt have been accused of making risky moves by their detractors. But FDR wasn’t ...
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First sale planned for gold 1945 FDR inaugural medal
An official 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt fourth-term inaugural medal in gold from the estate of former U.S. Mint director ...
Lawrence on the historic success of FDR's first 100 days which shows the failure of Trump's 100 days
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell looks back to the historic success of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office when he ...
When Presidents Sought a Third (and Fourth) Term
Nearly a century ago, the historian John Bach McMaster surveyed the first 138 years of the presidency and hazarded a ...
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Trump claims mantle of FDR’s first 100 days, but differences are stark
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s earthshaking first 100 days in office, no president has matched the sheer drama and disruption of that 15-week sprint in 1933, which rewrote the relationship ...