his wife Eleanor urged him not to abandon his political dreams. Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing ...

In 1940, Roosevelt broke the tradition set by George Washington by running for a third term. The advent of Nazi Germany sealed his determination to seek the presidency again, despite the disapproval ...

It was the day of Franklin ... Hyde Park, his family's sprawling estate in New York, as the only child of two doting parents. He was particularly close to his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born here in 1882 ... When the Roosevelts acquired the estate, James and his wife Sara took the ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt had many Christmas traditions he took part in with his family and White House staff during his time in office. Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, a place he ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration ... of the complicated relationship between the President and his wife, or the domestic difficulties of their five children.