Showing posts with label roosevelt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roosevelt. Show all posts
Saturday, February 26, 2022

FDR on Disinformation and Foreign Influence

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The invasion of Ukraine summons echoes of the invasion of France. Fireside Chat, May 26, 1940: There are many among us who in the past clos...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Happy Franksgiving!

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Many posts have discussed the background of Thanksgiving and other holidays . Claire Barrett at History.net: On November 26, 1789, Presi...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Presidential Illness

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi at History.com : Woodrow Wilson nearly died of the 1918 flu pandemic during sensitive negotiations with world leade...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Very, Very Early Campaign Spots

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From PBS: "The Oldway and the New" is a 1912 campaign film put out by the Democratic National Committee on behalf of candidate W...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Congress and Thanksgiving Day

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From the National Archives: On September 28, 1789, just before leaving for recess, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking t...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

The First Presidential Pollster

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At Politico , David Greenberg writes about the first presidential pollster.  In the spring of 1935, FDR worried about a third-party challe...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Attack Ad, 1940

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In the 1940 election, Wendell Willkie took to the screen in a 15-minute Republican National Committee film to attack his presidential campa...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

The GI Bill Turns Seventy

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Seventy years ago today, President  Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights .  Among other things, this legislation would transform...
Friday, June 6, 2014

The D-Day Prayer

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The place of religion in American public life is a major theme of our book, and it was in evidence 70 years ago today, when President Fran...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

FDR in a Wheelchair

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Presidents have long tried to control what the public sees of them.  A scholar has found rare film footage of FDR in a wheelchair.  AP repo...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Presidents and Expectations

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On this day eighty years ago, Franklin Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on national radio.   FDR contributed to raising e...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

State of the Union: Historical Perspective

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Tonight, the president delivers the annual State of the Union address. At The American Presidency Project Gerhard Peters writes : A see...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving Day

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The Continental Congress issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in 1777, to celebrate the patriots' victory in Saratoga. It...
Sunday, November 4, 2012

Presidents Discuss Revenge

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George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 : The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of ...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

Dirty Politics, 1940

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FDR recorded some of his White House conversations.   In August 1940, he spoke to aide Lowell Mellet about his campaign against Republica...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

D-Day

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Yesterday was the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.  Warren Kozak writes at The Wall Street Journal : Franklin Roosevelt is not rem...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Constitution, the Court, and Politics

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Sahil Kapur of Talking Points Memo comments on the health care case: Michael Barone notes that the debate over health care has helpe...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Gingrich, TR, and FDR

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Newt Gingrich 's admiration for Theodore Roosevelt ( who did not like the name "Teddy" ) and Franklin Roosevelt has been th...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

A Deliberative Party Convention?

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Our chapter on political parties discusses the role of national conventions .  In recent decades, they have served mostly to showcase a can...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Obama and TR

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Presidents often invoke their predecessors, as President Obama will do today. AP reports : President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit u...