Most people can recall one line from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." It wasn't the best line in the speech. Toward the end ...

As the Great Depression deepened in early 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address offered hope to the disillusioned nation. “This great Nation,” he assured the American people ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all ...

the outdoor swearing-in at his first inaugural set a precedent that with few exceptions has been followed by elected presidents since. While Franklin D. Roosevelt continued the tradition of an outdoor ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously began his first inaugural address in 1933 with the words: “This is a day of national consecration and I know that on this day my fellow Americans expect that I ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address and “Four Freedoms” State of the Union speech and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was an all ...