On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare a state of war on Japan. One of the most famous speeches of the 20th century, ...

It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study in ...

pt. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- pt. 2. Political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton v. 1. Political oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War -- Argument ...

Last week the West was showered with speeches, smiles and sociability as Franklin Delano Roosevelt pressed his Presidential campaign into historically Republican ground. His private car Pioneer, ...

BREMERTON — As a crowd of thousands bulged around a dock at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 16-year-old Eleanor Ogg watched a warship sail in, topped with a man within its forecastle. It was nearing ...

In the long hot weeks of summer Franklin Roosevelt looked down his nose, disparaging the idea that he should campaign for reelection. When late in droughty August he began making “nonpolitical” ...