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In his first 100 days, FDR calmed and unified the country. In his, Donald Trump has terrified and further divided us.
One scathing political cartoon depicted the ghost of George Washington chiding Roosevelt. FDR used World War II to win additional terms In 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the only president ...
Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive orders that can be swiftly ...
Ever since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s reassuring voice ... The idea of limits on presidential terms goes back as far as George Washington, who made it clear that the prevention ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt had a fatal ... Thousands lined up along the railroad tracks as Roosevelt made the final trip from Georgia to Washington, D.C., for his funeral. As news reached the Pacific ...
Donald Trump is seeking to do what several Republican predecessors failed to do: reverse the promise and the premises of Franklin D. Roosevelt ... Only George Washington’s was comparable ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the most executive orders, with over 3,700 during his 12 years in office. William Henry Harrison signed the fewest executive orders, with zero during his 30 days as ...
While you may think this is just another arbitrarily made-up holiday, April 7 commemorates one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s earliest and most successful New Deal policies combating ...
Congress passed the 22nd Amendment in 1947, imposing a two-term limit after more than 170 years of George Washington’s unwritten ... Theodore Roosevelt returned to the campaign trail in 1912 ...
Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons. First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term ...
Historically, presidents from George Washington to Franklin Roosevelt were eligible to run ... could still run the country (even though he’d be prohibited, unlike Putin, from running for preside ...
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.