The Democratic National Committee appoints Eleanor director of Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected as governor of New York. President Herbert Hoover declares that the United States is ...

It was actually in 1912 that Roosevelt first distinguished himself as a person apart from the ordinary. He had been elected to the New York Senate in 1910; a remarkable feat for a Democrat within ...

A new Democratic group, Pack the Courts, has become a brain trust for the idea. But unlike wine, court-packing hasn’t improved with age since its embrace by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility. — Franklin D Roosevelt ...

Roosevelt's Harvard career. Some find him an average undergraduate; others detect a natural propensity for class leadership. Some emphasize his aristocratic background; others point to democratic ...