Clip #14: 100 Days and Beyond (2:57). Summarize the quote from Franklin Roosevelt that is shown in the clip. How long did the “special session” of Congress last? What work did Congress and the ...

As author Gary Ginsberg tells PEOPLE, the former president was "emotionally wired for this friendship and he needed it" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882, the only son of wealthy parents James and Sara Delano Roosevelt (although his father had a son from a previous marriage). Roosevelt began studying ...