Authors: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1929–1941

Speech to Congress on Foreign Trade

LC-USZC4-4244Source: “Message to Congress Requesting Authority Regarding Foreign Trade,” March 2, 1934. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=14817. I am requesting the Congress

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1941–1945

Fireside Chat on the Greer Incident

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat” (September 11, 1941), Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://goo.gl/YS3DUC. Navy Department of the United States has reported

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World War II
1941–1945

President Roosevelt Defends Lend-Lease

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Press Conference,” December 17, 1940. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. https://goo.gl/U33U33. The President: . . . In the present

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Prayer on D-Day

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt D–Day Prayer, National Archives and Records Administration, 197375. My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that

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1929–1941

Campaign Address

On this trip through the Nation I have talked to farmers, I have talked to miners, I have talked to industrial workers; and in all that I have seen and

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