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FDR was inaugurated during the troubled time of The Great Depression. During his campaign he convinced Americans that " A New Deal " for America should be implemented. What he had to say them can perhaps bring some lights and solutions to the grave situation we are facing today.  

President Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasts his annual message to Congress, Jan. 11, 1944, in Washington.  

On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the nation via radio and gave his listeners a bracing dose of reality with an uplifting challenge just after his inauguration as the nation deepened into Depression:  

In simple terms, here's the plan Sen. Barack Obama has laid out in his campaign for us and America. It starts with all Americans and ends with all Americans. He invites Americans to become a part of something bigger than themselves. His plan is simple. It will do for us Americans what...  

On the morning of Franklin D Roosevelt’s inauguration as US president on March 4, 1933, the governors of New York and Illinois closed their banks.  

Meg Sullivan Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E...  

London, October 9 : U.S. Republican Vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is related to Princess Diana, if genealogists are to be believed.  

Mrs Palin, the Governor of Alaska, is also related to Democrat President Franklin D Roosevelt, the man who steered the US through the Great Depression and ...  

CHARLESTON - Plenty of parallels exist between the Great Depression years and today's economic meltdown. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal were a major focus at a luncheon wrapping up the 28th annual History Teachers Conference at Eastern Illinois University on Thursday.  

The Franklin D. Roosevelt High School Lady Presidents tennis team rolled to a 5-0 victory over Ellenville with all of its players in top form.  

-By Warner Todd Huston I have for years been saying that Franklin D. Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression with his anti-capitalist, anti-American New Deal policies. Looks like some professors at UCLA agree with me. "President Roosevelt believed that excessive competition was responsible for...  

In simple terms, here's the plan Sen. Barack Obama has laid out in his campaign for us and America. It starts with all Americans and ends with all Americans. He invites Americans to become a part of something bigger than themselves. His plan is simple. It will do for us Americans what Franklin D...  

On September 24, Michael Gerson discussed President Bush's response to the financial crisis and said that he and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had "assumed the mantle of Franklin D. Roosevelt." Praising the president for merely attempting to clean up the mess he helped make is one thing...  

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are not the only political odd couple who share a family tree. Sarah Palin is linked in her lineage to Franklin D. Roosevelt. She also has a connection with Princess Diana.  

Anne Salter, librarian for Oglethorpe University's Philip Weltner library, stands with the 1932 commencement speech and memorabilia from then-New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt on display at the museum.