Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To break D.C. logjam, Sen. Reid should revive the 'nuclear option'

2013-06-02 15:53:00

As President Obama prepares to nominate three new judges for what is probably the nation's most important federal appeals court, Republicans in the Senate are escalating their attempts to stand in his way. Last month the Senate unanimously confirmed...

(Small) body of presidential knowledge

2013-05-07 14:24:37

Letters: What Keynes really thought

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Re "Niall Ferguson's blooper," Opinion, May 7 Jonah Goldberg fails to address what is revealing about Niall Ferguson's ad hominem blooper on John Maynard Keynes' sexuality, for which the Harvard historian has given "an unqualified apology," according to...

Goldberg: Obama's 'idiot' defense

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Although there's still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama's bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his...

Superman, a hero with staying power

2013-05-19 00:00:00

My nomination for American hero of the 20th century is someone who lived half his life in disguise and the other half as the world's most recognizable man. He appeared on more radio broadcasts than Ellery Queen and in more movies than Marlon Brando, who...

Chained thinking on the federal deficit

2013-04-23 19:15:00

Washington's tug of war over the federal budget has many wonders, but the biggest one of all must be the lengths to which politicians and pundits will go to deprive Granny and Grandpa of $30 a month. That's the amount by which benefits for the average...

The ex-presidents club

2013-04-25 00:00:00

As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office,...

Goldberg: 'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-23 00:00:00

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

Debating FDR and the Holocaust

2013-04-16 17:09:00

It wasn't surprising that Rafael Medoff's April 7 Op-Ed article about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's private comments on Jews facing persecution in Europe drew spirited responses (though I do admit that I was a little rattled that most of the letters...

FDR's Holocaust lapse

2013-04-13 00:00:00

Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....

Letters: FDR, Jews and the war

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...

What FDR said about Jews in private

2013-04-07 00:00:00

In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...

In April 1945, this 199-ton, 92-foot locomotive pulled President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral train on part of its journey to Washington. It went to th eSmithsonian in 1961.

2013-06-07 14:03:00

Crowds gathered at Chicago Municipal Airport in July 1932 for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt who flew to Chicago to personally accept the Democratic nomination for president. At left is the plane in which the Democratic nominee made the trip from Albany, New York.

2013-05-30 09:54:32

Midshipmen are greeted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the 1938 graduation.

2013-05-23 10:15:00