According to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, the first three drafts of the speech didn’t include any mention of the four freedoms. As Samuel I. Rosenman, special counsel to ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

This year four lecturers take up the themes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms": freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

WASHINGTON -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United ... tests the persistence of our progressive purpose." The speech projected the second New Deal further on the pathway opened ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a very special relationship with the State of Georgia. This compelling documentary spotlights the mutual benefits that the friendship provided to both the president ...