History of Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site. ... Roosevelt’s illness had stricken him greatly and many quotes from the president tell of his desire to spend his life back at ...

'Franklin D. Roosevelt: ... He also quotes Garner describing the president as "a thoroughly repudiated ... a closely divided vote in Congress approved the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to pack the Supreme Court with up to six additional justices in a March 1937 "fireside chat." The Senate rejected that bid on July 22, 1937.

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

Most people know that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only U.S. President who served more than two terms. Here are some other FDR facts you may not have learned in your history classes.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.

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 tried to rally Americans to defend democracy against Nazi Germany in 1941. President Biden said democracy is again threatened.

In 1933, newly-elected US President Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to drag the United States out of the depression with the New Deal. One of the biggest public spending projects in history, the ...