Really, he’d hoped to spend that afternoon up in the second floor study, magnifying glass in hand, working on the stamp collection that since boyhood had taught him about the world. But FDR was ...
On Dec. 7, 1941, the headline of a story in the Arkansas Gazette proclaimed: "Main Street in Holiday Attire for Christmas." Below the headline was a photo of a festively decorated downtown Little Rock ...
When the phone rang, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in the Oval Study, located on the White House's second floor, examining his stamp collection. The time was 1:47 p.m. The day was ...
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt drafted his Dec. 8, 1941 speech to Congress without the aid of his speechwriters, dictating to secretary Grace Tully. This draft shows ...
Perhaps one of the best know phrases in the history of American politics is “a date which will live in infamy.” In what is now considered one of the most powerful speeches ever delivered, President ...
HYDE PARK, N.Y. — Seventy-five years after he dictated what would become one of the most famous speeches ever delivered by an American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first draft of his "Day of ...
When the phone rang, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in the Oval Study, located on the White House’s second floor, examining his stamp collection. The time was 1:47 p.m. The day was ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results