The members of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (center, front row) ruled against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. MPI / Getty Images As the ...

President Roosevelt, the author of the New Deal, is attempting to lift the nation out of this widespread and prolonged depression, which has been so devastating to our social and economic life for ...

If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in ...

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to fix the problems of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial ... Domestically, FDR switched from “Dr. New Deal” to “Dr. Win the War,” organizing the armed forces and ...

Amid the Trump administration’s cuts, the 79-year-old sees "a direct threat to the most popular government program that has ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

Roosevelt took the oath of office during the depths of a real economic crisis, characterised by bank panics, surging unemployment, and plummeting incomes. Over the next twelve years, he expanded the ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest public power utility, stands at a historic junction shaped by the ...

Firing members of the boards of executive agencies, that’s a precedent that was set over Roosevelt during the New Deal. The use of the president’s authority to change tariffs is completely the ...