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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Aerial view of U.S. Capitol and crowd on the grounds of the east front of the U.S. Capitol, during the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

Aerial View of Franklin Roosevelt’s First Inauguration

  • April 6, 2015
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
President Roosevelt at NIH

Rare Footage of FDR Dedicating the NIH

  • November 6, 2014
This is some great old footage of FDR dedicating the NIH back in 1940. Thanks to GoDCer Jeff for sending this in a while ago. It was originally posted on an NIH blog, Circulating...

Ex-Slave Visits With FDR at White House

  • March 3, 2014
Watching the Oscars and thinking of 12 Years a Slave, we were wondering if and when a former slave visited the White House as a guest. I also suspect that this has happened more...
The Mayflower Hotel

Three Bits of Trivia About the Mayflower Hotel

  • July 8, 2013
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 of trivia. Nevertheless, the building that has seen guests...
letter from Castro to FDR

Teenage Fidel Castro’s Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • June 24, 2013
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 age of 14, who was a student at Colegio...
marriages-1936

Franklin Roosevelt: No Marrying Foreign Aliens

  • October 4, 2012
For this last post, let us turn to the December 2, 1936 copy of the Washington Post. In this article, we observe a great tongue-in-cheek opening line (a nod to various failed multilateral trade...
legalize beer cartoon by Pat Enright

Charge of ‘Beer Orgy’ Angers White House

  • September 4, 2012
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 White House’s home brewed beer. There was even an official...
Pearl Harbor 1941

The Morning of Pearl Harbor

  • April 26, 2012
In Washington, late into the evening of December 6th, reporters worked their normal, likely frantic, hours and submitted their articles in time to be published the following morning. War had been raging in Europe...
Lou Gehrig, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Gehringer, Jimmie Foxx, and Hank Greenberg - July 7th, 1937 (Library of Congress)

We Want Beer! The 1937 All-Star Game at Griffith Stadium

  • April 20, 2012
This … picture … is … awesome. This is why I love baseball. I could almost end the post with just this picture because it’s just that amazing. The 1937 Major League Baseball All-Star...
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