Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Check out this amazing old photo of FDR's inauguration and then compare it to this one of Eisenhower and this of Obama. Source: dullshick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrVZblIYljo This is some great old footage of FDR dedicating the NIH back in 1940. Thanks to GoDCer Jeff for sending this in a while...

Watching the Oscars and thinking of "12 Years a Slave," we were wondering if and when a former slave visited the White House as...

Source: Library of Congress The "Grande Dame of Washington" has seen so much history that it's difficult to do a post listing just three bit...

Wow, this one is cool. We dug it up on the National Archives' site. This is a letter from a young Fidel Castro, at the...

For this last post, let us turn to the December 2, 1936 copy of the Washington Post. In this article, we observe a great...

That's a pretty good attention grabbing headline from the Washington Post. And I think this is appropriate, given the current media focus on the...

In Washington, late into the evening of December 6th, reporters worked their normal, likely frantic, hours and submitted their articles in time to be...

This ... picture ... is ... awesome. This is why I love baseball. I could almost end the post with just this picture because it's...

Later this evening, the President will give his annual State of the Union address. On such an important day, it would be remiss of...

Here is video (partly in color) of FDR being inaugurated for the fourth time. This being the fourth time is impressive enough, but also,...

April 12th, 1945 was a sad day for our nation. Our president, who had led us through the depths of the Depression and was...