Hundreds of cars were stranded and abandoned ... The first inauguration to be held on Jan. 20 - Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inauguration in 1937 - also set the record for the heaviest rain on ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 inauguration is the wettest on record ... FDR insisted on riding back "to the White House in an open car with a half an inch of water on the floor." ...
WASHINGTON (WHTM) — On January 20, 1937, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... just a little too late for Roosevelt’s first inauguration on March 4, 1933. The 20th Amendment changed more than the ...
On Jan. 20, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first ... the first had been held four years earlier on March 4, 1933. Roosevelt’s first inauguration had been shadowed by the onset ...