In 1933, there was great disagreement about how to deal with an economic recession or depression, and Roosevelt’s administration, and he himself, had conflicting impulses. Hoover had made the ...

He got us out of the Great Depression." That's probably the most frequent comment made about President Franklin Roosevelt, who died 65 years ago today. Every Democratic president from Truman to ...

At first the public celebrated the Blue Eagle emblem, symbol of President Franklin Roosevelt’s ambitious ... helped put the “Great” in the Great Depression.

Sound familiar? There are two knee-jerk things that both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt did that actually ensured that the Depression would have a long run. First, Hoover stifled free trade ...

But that was four years into Roosevelt's term - four years marked ... Did they prolong the Great Depression in ways the official data didn't detect? According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...

The October 1929 stock market crash nearly 80 years ago is generally regarded as the start of the Depression. "Franklin Roosevelt was above all a pragmatist...above all try something. You have to ...

In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing their place in the White House. The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular ...

That sanitized narrative of the depression erases the voiced suffering of millions, the murmurs of revolution that swept Franklin Roosevelt into office. That is, in the end, the point of it.

Roosevelt was right to want to introduce more ... A New History of the Great Depression.” ...

Trump argued Wednesday that it “took years and years to get out of that Depression, far longer than even FDR had that office right over there for a long period of time.” The depression ended ...

Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme ... labor and housing" to respond to the woes the Great Depression had wrought, that site notes, and would greatly increase the federal government ...