Franklin Delano Roosevelt giving the Pearl Harbor Address - "a date that will live in infamy"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights in a speech on January 11, 1944. This was an economic Bill of Rights.
www.c-spanarchives.org Newsreel footage of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration on January 20, 1933.
"It's hard to remember now, but before Social Security, nearly half of America's seniors lived in poverty. After a lifetime of playing by the rules and working hard, there was no guarantee of a secure retirement. "My grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a majority of Americans thought that ...
Born in New York City, Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880. He emerged as the leader of reform Republicans in the New York State Assembly in the early 1880s. Thereafter, he pushed practical reforms as head of the US Civil Service Commission (1889-1895), president of the New York City police ...