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Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and was a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State, historian Anthony Gregory emphasizes how an earlier president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, built up policing ...

While the observation will outrage Democrats and Republicans alike, in terms of style, not politics, Mr. Trump is reminiscent of President Franklin D ... Roosevelt was a scion of New York ...

one program under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration. The NRA was one of the early cornerstones of Roosevelt’s New Deal, aimed at alleviating the economic ...

the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest ...

As labor secretary, Perkins helped President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulate policies behind the 1930s New Deal and create safeguards in the national economy following the Great Depression.

President Joe Biden has established a national monument in Newcastle, Maine, to Frances Perkins, the first woman member of a ...

Perkins, who served as Labor Secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, played a critical role in shaping the New Deal and establishing labor protections in the U.S. Biden's decision to ...