Franklin D. Roosevelt

<div id="subtitle">WWII veterans take a trip to D.C. to visit the memorial built for them.</div><div><p><h1>Not Forgotten</h1> <p>WWII veterans take a trip to D.C. to visit the memorial built for them. </p> <p ...

<div id="subtitle">NYC museum explores FDR's first 100 days in exhibition that avoids glib comparisons to Obama</div><div><p>Sworn in as president in the midst of a deep economic crisis, Franklin D. Roosevelt turned his first 100 days into a swirl of action as he ...

<div><p>What are the odds that this economic slump will deepen into a genuine depression not seen since the 1930s? In my judgment, it's not likely. Instead, I foresee a moderately severe recession.</p><p>We're all hearing more and more comparisons being drawn to the ...

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's exciting that the world is so excited about Barack Obama. I'm excited, too. That he achieved the presidency says something good about America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the excitement also frightens me. It reinforces the worst impulse of the media and political class: the assumption ...

<div><p>It's been over 30-yrs since the last US Coast Guard cutter left port for a three-week patrol in the middle of the ocean to serve as a floating weather observation platform. And yet the memory of what went on burns brightly in ...

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;(With the Democratic National Convention beginning this week, Human Events thought readers would enjoy being reminded of many of the more memorable events of past Democratic conventions.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2004 Boston&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Kerry introduced himself to cheering delegates by giving a military salute and ...

&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. The major party conventions have finally arrived. What was the first year national party conventions were televised?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. The acceptance speech of the nominee is historically the climax of the convention. Who was the first major-party nominee to come to the convention ...

<div><p>What would John Maynard Keynes do? What would Franklin Roosevelt do? Alistair Darling was right about the scale of the financial meltdown, and yet neither he nor Gordon Brown send any political message about what to do - lagging, not leading. This ...

<div><p><p>The next man to occupy the Oval Office will face the toughest start to his presidency since the Depression-era first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said today.</p> <p>"Lincoln and FDR's inauguration days we're the most challenging in ...

<div id="subtitle">$700B financial rescue plan is most costly in long line of bailouts with debatable success</div><div><p>The stock market plummets, investors pull out money and loans dry up, triggering global financial turmoil. Enter the government, buying up bad mortgages and other problem assets.</p>< ...