Authors: Franklin D. Roosevelt

World War II
1941–1945

Arsenal of Democracy Fireside Chat

Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Fireside Chat,” December 29, 1940. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209416. My friends: This is not a fireside chat

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1929–1941

Fireside Chat on Banking

I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking–with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking but more particularly with

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World War II
1941–1945

Annual Message to Congress (1944)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Annual Message to Congress – State of the Union (speech file 1501),” in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944, FDR

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1941–1945

The Atlantic Charter

Source: “The Atlantic Charter,” National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of Government Reports, Record Group 44. https://goo.gl/TR6E3F. The President of the United States of America and the

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Commonwealth Club Address

Source: Samuel I. Rosenman and William D. Hassett, eds., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume One: The Genesis of the New Deal, 1928 -1932 (New York:

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