On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. While the 32nd U.S. president claimed the plan was to ...

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. This was the ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to establish a system of benefits that covers several groups of Americans on Aug. 14, 1935. Most people know that Social Security ...

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 in ...

Discover key historic events on November 7, including FDR's fourth term win, the Bolshevik Revolution, Nixon's re-election, and pivotal U.S. elections.

It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his radio broadcast to an anxious nation. Earlier that day, he had held a press ...

Summary: The USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42), affectionately known by a variety of nicknames including “Swanky Franky,” “Foo-De-Roo,” and “Rosie,” initially christened the USS Coral Sea, was renamed ...

American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1862 - 1945) waves from a lectern just after he took his 4th Oath of Office, Washington DC, January 20, 1945. Among those pictured with him are ...