While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

Saturday, Feb. 1 is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa ... will for all time afford an inspiring example to youth everywhere," President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said upon Carver’s death in 1943.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

Whereas George Washington issued eight, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued 3,721 — still, the highest number signed by any American president. Whereas Ronald Reagan issued 381, Barack Obama issued 276 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president inaugurated ... The inauguration was postponed to give President-elect George Washington ample time to make the trip from his home in Virginia ...

The first inaugurations in U.S. history didn't happen in Washington ... The inauguration was held in March until Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second inauguration in 1937, so the threat of freezing ...

President George Washington famously chose to bow ... The only president to ever serve more than two terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served four times from 1932 to 1944.

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