A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. One hundred ...

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is ...

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 ...

Through a coincidence of history, President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday took place on the 92nd anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inauguration.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 3.7% over the past five trading days, its best performance leading up to Inauguration Day since 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. The S&P 500 is ...

rising fascism in Europe—and FDR embraced it, launching his New Deal. “We do not distrust the future of essential democracy,” he declared in his inaugural address. “The people of the ...