FDR

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• 1/30/19
  

  Bold Experimenter FDR Was Born 137 Years Ago

  by Joseph A. Esposito

  Unquestionably, Roosevelt is the most consequential American president since Abraham Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The remarkable — and secret — first presidential visit to troops fighting overseas

  Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to fly in an airplane during his 1943 trip to North Africa.

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• 11/25/18
  

  What Do the Democrats Need in 2020?

  by Walter G. Moss

  A Progressive unifier like FDR.

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• 11/4/18
  

  FDR Gets Credit for His Response to Kristallnacht. He Shouldn’t.

  by Rafael Medoff

  80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.

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• 9/15/18
  

  Are We at a 1932-Like Juncture?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Voters are crying out for a leader who can unify the country.

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• 9/15/18
  

  How the U.S. Holocaust Museum's New Calendar Distorts the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  It whitewashes FDR's response to the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  8-1-18
  

  Private world of Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled in newly found film footage

  The films were donated last year by the family of Marguerite A. “Missy” LeHand, a largely forgotten figure who was FDR’s longtime aide, rumored lover and the woman behind the camera in many of the shots.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-16-18
  

  The Supreme Court Doesn't Need 9 Justices

  by Jacob Hale Russell

  It needs 27.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7-11-18
  

  Robert Dallek's FDR Book Invites Comparisons To Trump's Presidency

  In an interview Dallek says that FDR always worked hard to win over large majorities for social change, unlike Trump, who plays to his base.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-30-18
  

  After the Supreme Court blow, unions should look to a new model: the NRA

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Historic battles between business and ordinary people have played out in America’s top court before. Now, it is happening again.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6-28-18
  

  Here's How Donald Trump's Influence on the Supreme Court Compares to Other Presidents

  GW appointed the most number of justices (of course). FDR’s nominees served the most years.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  7-1-18 (accessed)
  

  This Is How FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court

  The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, commonly referred to as the “court-packing plan,” was Roosevelt’s attempt to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-27-18
  

  A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking

  The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum unveiled the newly acquired Hill footage, which it says offers a fresh, remarkably clear glimpse into one of the great secrets of FDR’s public life.

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• SOURCE: Raw Story
  6-21-18
  

  Seth Meyers mocks Trump for comparing himself to the president who served 16-years

  Of course, no president serviced 16 years.  No one in his circle has corrected him.

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• SOURCE: Princeton University Press
  5-28-18
  

  You remember when the United States defaulted, don’t you?

  Economist Sebastian Edwards wants you to remember it happened and it was FDR who did it.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-3-18
  

  Why Trump Is More Father Coughlin Than Franklin Roosevelt

  by Jon Meacham

  In the 1930s and early ’40s, President Roosevelt used radio to unify the country rather than simply speak to his base.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-16-18
  

  Travel Ban Case Is Shadowed by One of Supreme Court’s Darkest Moments

  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 1942 executive order that sent more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  3-22-18 (accessed)
  

  Fighting Words

  by Sean Wilentz

  No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

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• 2/25/18
  

  Along with Rosie the Riveter You Should Think of This When You Conjure Up the Home Front in World War II

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  Incarcerated Japanese Americans working on factory lines in the war effort.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2-7-18
  

  FDR had a military parade, too

  by Susan Dunn

  It was in January 1941, after Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration to an unprecedented third term in office.