Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...

This surprised many including Louis Howe who was later to become Roosevelt's closest political adviser ... As he did with the New Deal, Roosevelt again expanded the powers of government, this ...

Franklin D Roosevelt ... to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political ...

Truckers' protest poster The increasing influence of the federal government over the economy has led many Americans to expect ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 1936 (UP) - President Roosevelt has ... will be a day of political funerals for Democrats who led the bolting, conservative crusade against the New Deal. The vote promised ...

Few American Presidents have been more profoundly distrusted and more entirely misinterpreted by their opponents than Mr. Wilson, except perhaps Mr. Roosevelt ... of new and onerous political ...

New Deal legislation was not without significant shortfalls. But where it succeeded, it created broad, universal programs ...

Roosevelt implements the New Deal. The Dust-Bowl devastates the Midwest ... to discuss the role of women in political elections; She begins publishing the syndicated column, "My Day." ...

Roosevelt and his New Deal policies of social integration and ... There is no question that they will be powerful political actors in the years to come and that they hold little support for ...

Roosevelt in his four presidential ... but they also did have key organizational, political, and cultural differences before ...

During a recent visit to my mother, we reminisced about my father, a Roosevelt Democrat. Dad found Depression-era employment through the New Deal ... a scrapbook of political cartoons chronicling ...

The model is the vast investment projects of the New Deal that helped lift America out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. That was the defining policy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.