Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...

Howe first met Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1911 while covering the ... that from that moment we became friends -- and almost at that very first meeting I made up my mind that he was Presidential ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... Some claim he had few friends; others assert he mixed well with people. Though seemingly contradictory, all ...

Such was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's love of the dirty ... The drink became popular at informal gatherings between Roosevelt and friends, which he christened "the Children's Hour." ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

Eleanor becomes engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her fifth cousin once ... his campaign trail for the vice presidency; She becomes friends with Louis Howe; She joins the League of Women ...