The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

FDR in a far more commanding political position, expended no political capital on desegregation during his four election campaigns. As with the Katyn massacre, we can say that FDR did not initiate ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

FDR's landslide 1932 election victory saw him carry 42 of 48 states and 472 electoral votes against incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in what was perceived as a campaign of hope following the ...

and the concerted campaign to keep his reliance on a wheelchair out of the public eye. While vacationing in Campobello Island, New Brunswick, in 1921, Roosevelt was struck with an attack of polio ...

Last week brought a new round of cuts to longstanding federal programs and more pink slips for employees of various agencies and departments. And the Trump administration is trying to instill a ...

but a Sun Oil executive paid him a large fee to campaign for Landon, William J. Baker wrote in his 1986 book “Jesse Owens: An American Life.” Owens also was angered that Roosevelt hadn’t ...

Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D. Roosevelt to be his running mate. FDR campaigns with relish, and eventually persuades Eleanor to join him as he crisscrosses the country. She grows to enjoy ...

The phrase of course comes from another presidential campaigner, Franklin Roosevelt. Early in his 1932 campaign, feeling feisty, FDR picked a safe venue -- a commencement address at a relatively ...

Elliott Roosevelt, Eleanor's father ... Eleanor travels with Franklin on his campaign trail for the vice presidency; She becomes friends with Louis Howe; She joins the League of Women Voters.