F.D.R.

He was a Dirty Campaigner…
(Collier’s Magazine, 1952)

FDR’s predecessor, Herbert Hoover, wrote a series of articles concerning his own presidency that appeared on the pages of COLLIER’S MAGAZINE throughout the spring of 1952. The sixth installment was devoted to his 1932 reelection bid against FDR and the Roosevelt Hoover remembered was an under-handed campaigner who surrounded himself with liars and all sorts of other aids and speechwriters who took liberties with the truth in all matter’s involving the record of Hoover’s administration.


CLICK HERE to read about President Hoover and the Bonus Army…

FDR and the House Republicans
(United States News, 1944)

The House of Representatives that was convening in early ’44 was composed of thirty additional Democrats – but this seemed not to matter to the President and his allies on the Hill; after eight years of practice, the opposition party had learned how to play the game.

Eleanor Roosevelt on the Death of FDR
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

This column, by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was an articulate effort at make some sense of her husband’s death, which took place during one of the most critical periods in world history:

Perhaps in His wisdom, the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart a way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. It cannot be the work of one man, nor can the responsibility be laid upon his shoulders, and so when the time comes for peoples to assume the burden more fully, he is given rest.

The First Lady’s Story
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

A column from a 1937 issue of PATHFINDER MAGAZINE included these two seemingly random tales from the life of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The brief remembrance on the second page is a bitter-sweet story about young Eleanor and her mother’s vision of her as a hopelessly plain-looking girl.


Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.

FDR’s Sense of Charity
(A Magazine Advertisement)

The Mobilization for Human Needs charity campaign was the brain-child of President Roosevelt; it was based on his belief that private charities, when teamed with either county, state or the Federal government, could serve the public good better than these agencies could do when working separately.


The attached page appeared in hundreds of popular magazines during the Fall of 1933 imploring the readers to donate to the local charities that were associated with this campaign.

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