Merkel taking Europe in wrong direction: Soros
February 12, 2012
US President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the crisis in 1933 with his New Deal, inspired by British economist John Keynes, which combined a reform of the banking system with...

70 years after Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona still weeps
December 04, 2011
Denouncing'' a date which will live in infamy,'' president Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, changing the course of World War II at a time when many of his countrymen...

Del Reeves, Grand Ole Opry member known for hit' Girl on the Billboard,' dies at...
February 22, 2012
He said he was born July 14, 1932, in Sparta, N.C., the youngest of 11 children, and was named Franklin Delano Reeves for then-presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt. He...

Editorial Roundup
November 28, 2011
Mr. Obama, by some assessments, has more political leverage than any president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1937. But what is good for the President may not ultimately be good...

Obama faces reelection challenges
July 08, 2011
If Obama is re-elected, it will be the first time since Franklin Roosevelt that a sitting president has been re-elected with unemployment so high, The Hill reported Friday....

UC to honor Japanese- American WWII internees
December 18, 2011
order signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. Taye Oda said she only needed six units to graduate from UC Berkeley when she was sent to an internment camp in Utah. She...

Vice President Biden begins Asia trip
September 01, 2011
Biden will be the second U.S. Vice President to travel to Mongolia after Henry Wallace, President Franklin Roosevelt's vice president, who visited that country in 1944. In...

The Almanac - - weekly
January 12, 2012
In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, banks throughout the United States began to reopen after a weeklong bank holiday declared by President Franklin Roosevelt in a...