With his Jewish colleague and housemate Ben Cohen, Corcoran drafted some of the most crucial New Deal legislation, and FDR used him as a lobbyist for the White House—a first in Washington.

FDR and The New Deal During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired.

FDR’s New Deal transformed the economy. ... When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was first inaugurated as president in 1933, he was facing “a nation on the brink,” said Jason Scott Smith, ...

First, the nominee needed solid New Deal credentials; he had to be a "thumping, evangelical New Dealer," said Roosevelt (and Black was certainly that, having voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt ...

Far from ending the Great Depression, the New Deal prolonged it and created several bouts of inflation in the 1930s. McAuliffe’s comparison of Biden to FDR is right, however, though for the ...

To mark the birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jan. 30, the State Museum opened a small exhibit Thursday to coincide with the 131st anniversary of his birth in 1882. Titled "New York and the ...

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 mythic air surrounding Roosevelt’s first 100 days established it as a standard for executive prowess, given the speed at which his New Deal program coalesced and helped stem the worst ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.