A series of Supreme Court decisions that went against FDR can be applied to the Trump administration today, writes.

Ms. Henriques is the author of “Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR’s Fight to Regulate American Capitalism.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped ...

This has long been the case with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... this was not the primary goal of the New Deal in the eyes of its chief architect. Roosevelt saw the Great Depression ...

People gather on the lawn to mark the day Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... "I think we still need that today." Roosevelt's New Deal included rural electrification, agriculture ...

Show more 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 ...

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin ... Roosevelt’s critics said he was attempting to pack the Supreme Court, neutralizing those justices "hostile to his New Deal," as ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

“Few presidents have ranked higher in the estimation of scholars than Franklin D. Roosevelt.” He is in the top three of “greatest” presidents, winning plaudits for his New Deal creation of the ...

Just past the midway point of “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts”—a powerful and powerfully disturbing exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ...

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal. By Jennifer ...

Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin ... premises of Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...