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March 17 - President Roosevelt holds a press conference in which he speaks against a congressional movement to abolish the 40 hour work week. [105] Roosevelt also states his intent to ask Congress the following day for an increase of seventeen and a half billion toward army warplanes.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt An excerpt from the speech where Roosevelt says "... a date which will live in infamy". The "Day of Infamy" speech , sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech , was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt , the 32nd president of the United States , to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941.
The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
March 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Evacuation Day ( Suffolk County, Massachusetts ) Saint Patrick's Day , a public holiday in Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador , widely celebrated in the English-speaking world and to a lesser degree in other parts of the world.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest-serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
Ukraine’s prime minister Denys Shmyhal made an address in Washington DC today (14 April), ahead of the country’s risky decision to launch a counteroffensive in the ongoing war with Russia.
An armoured train carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia, the country’s state news agency reported today. The agency RIA, citing one of its correspondents in Russia’s ...
Last photograph of Roosevelt, taken the day before his death (April 11, 1945) After returning to the United States from the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt addressed Congress on March 1, [206] and many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked. He spoke while seated in the well of the House, an unprecedented concession to his physical ...