Today in History for May 18

In his first 100 days in office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt steered 15 major bills through Congress. This flood of legislation restructured faulty market practices and laid the groundwork for years of New Deal reforms to bring the economy out ...

In 1941, while he was still in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt established the first such archive in Hyde Park, N.Y., to preserve personal papers and mementos from his time in office. His successor, Harry Truman, signed the Presidential Libraries Act ...

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 ...

It is probably fair to say that Sen. Ted Cruz is the political opposite of President Franklin Roosevelt. And so it makes sense that Cruz, along with Sen. John Cornyn and other Republican senators, has signed on to a plan that is the near opposite of ...

I am a Democrat in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. Democrats have won so many recent national elections in part because we were viewed as protecting Medicare and Social Security, while Republicans lost those elections in ...

WASHINGTON -- Police say a body found floating in Washington's Tidal Basin near the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial is that of a Chicago tourist who went missing on Easter Sunday while visiting the nation's capital with relatives.The body of ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt once warned that democracy will never be safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. If such a scenario arose, Roosevelt said, that would be ...

On Dec. 5, 1933, right after dinner bells rang across the country, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a proclamation that ended Prohibition and solidified the vast majority of Catholic votes for the Democratic Party for 40 years. The first time Catholics ...

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 ...