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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 ...

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 ...

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 labor ...

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins ...

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.

Roosevelt expanded government to help the nation climb out of the Great Depression. But he also recognized that too much ...

Frances Perkins, the daughter of a Worcester shopkeeper and the secretary of labor under President Franklin ... on the New Deal. She was secretary of labor for 12 years, mostly under FDR.