Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive orders that can be swiftly ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal stroke April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait at his Warm Springs, Ga., retreat after the Yalta Conference. Roosevelt, 63, had guided America through the ...

Before and during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped shepherd a system into existence which aimed to combat similar pernicious forces buffeting the world in 2025: The belief that ...

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...

Most educated Americans will know about New Deal initiatives like Social Security, the Works Progress Administration, and the National Labor Relations Act, but fewer will naturally associate Roosevelt ...

He said, "Good-by, House," and the two men never spoke again. Franklin Roosevelt also had a top administration priority run by a man with a military title in a non-traditional appointment.

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 in 1933 (reprinted below). And since gold ownership was legalized again in the early 1970s, the specter of this 80-year-old attack on ...

President Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin. In January 1943, Roosevelt had an opportunity to save the nations of ...

was being tempted with the seeming possibility of being the new Franklin Roosevelt, the most important and influential Democrat in the past century and a half. Obama managed a signature policy ...