This July 4th, special note (and respect) should be given to the Inaugural Address given by President George Washington in ...

President Roosevelt and Fala at the White House, Christmas 1941. Credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons “I am used to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself… But ...

William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

This piece is also available at Old Goats with Jonathan Alter. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt lifted the United States out of the fetal position with his thrilling First Hundred Days.

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

In his first inaugural in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt moved out of campaign mode and acknowledged the constraints on his “leadership of frankness and vigor.” He pledged to rely on his ...

Nor did he reflect the “inner well of serenity” that the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin found in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose 1933 inaugural address rallied a country beset by the ravages ...

Early on, I landed on my top five: Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and ...

Most people can recall one line from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." It wasn't the best line in the speech.

Trump has certainly faced challenges. But wartime presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln or the multiple presidents who were assassinated might disagree with him.

Or to join Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who amid the Great Depression told Americans in 1933, “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself ...