Posts Tagged ‘Franklin Delano Roosevelt’
Trump: Republicans’ FDR?
Posted on April 24, 2017
(Also published in The Hill) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president to make a big deal about a new administration’s first hundred days. FDR was sworn in on March...
Read StoryTrump And A Short History of Inaugural Addresses
Posted on January 16, 2017
On Trump and a short history of inaugural addresses… Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson’s inaugural address was the first on the East Portico of United States Capitol building. The crowd overwhelmed whatever...
Read StoryAmerica First, Charles Lindbergh and Ted Cruz
Posted on December 17, 2015
As Europe was engulfed in its second violent, all-encompassing war of the 20th Century, America split into two camps. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became increasingly concerned about the brutality of the...
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