Dinner to T. Roosevelt. ... A SPEECH ON LAW ENFORCEMENT Politics and Entreaties Will Not Swerve the Police Board from the Course It Has Mapped Out. Share full article. Dec. 12, 1895.

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, by Anthony Gregory, Harvard University Press, 512 pages, $45 How did we get here? Many focus on the ways Presidents ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act into law on this day in history, Aug. 2, 1939, prohibiting some federal government employees from engaging in certain political activities.