Franklin D. Roosevelt
Scandals, State Dinners and the Real Story Behind ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’
In 1939, just weeks before England entered World War II, a historic meeting took place between King George VI of England and the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was the first time that a sitting British royal had ever visited the U.S. and the king, fearing the impending threat of Nazi Germany, was eager to […]
Looking Back at FDR’s Legacy Amidst Health Care Battle in the Supreme Court
With the Supreme Court arguments over President Obama’s health care law behind us, we can now look forward and consider what the political repercussions of these historic hearings will be. Anna Sale, reporter for our co-producer WNYC’s politics website, It’s a Free Country, joins us to look back: back upon days when the President of […]
The End of US Dual Ocean Navy Defense?
Congress and Franklin Roosevelt’s administration passed the Two-Ocean Navy Act in 1940, during World War II. Since then, the nation’s domestic military defense has been based on a simultaneous naval defense on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But with the announcement Thursday of an eight percent decrease in U.S. military spending, there was also the […]
Obama’s ‘New Deal’ aises questions about the success of FDR’s original
With Senators expected to pass what has been called President Obama’s New Deal, an old debate about the original New Deal is bubbling up again. Did FDR’s program really drag the U.S. out of the Great Depression or was it WWII that put us back on track?