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Hace 4 días · Taking on Theodore Roosevelt by Harry Lembeck In August 1906, black soldiers stationed in Brownsville, Texas, were accused of going on a lawless rampage in which shots were fired, one man was killed, and another wounded.
Hace 4 días · Teddy Roosevelt is one of the most popular figures in American history–a progressive and a Republican, a rancher and explorer, an ardent conservationist and fierce trust-buster. He came from ...
Hace 4 días · Isaac Daniel Roosevelt (September 29, 1790 — December 24, 1863) was an American businessman, and the paternal grandfather of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.. Biography. He was born in Hyde Park, New York to Jacobus Roosevelt (1760–1847) and Catherine Welles (1762–1829). In 1825 he married Mary Rebecca Aspinwall, daughter of John Aspinwall and Susan Howland.
Hace 4 días · The smallpox hospital was completed in 1856 and designed by James Renwick Jr. (who designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral ). It was built using labor from the nearby lunatic asylum. It was open for ...
Hace 2 días · President Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election.. The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the ratification of the 22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796. Both Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt were attacked for trying to obtain a third non-consecutive term.
Hace 3 días · Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks concerning President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address (also known as the Four Freedoms speech) during which President Roosevelt identified four fundamental freedoms that everyone ought to enjoy, including freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom ...
Hace 3 días · Discover the top 10 secrets of FDR Four Freedoms Park. Learn more about the memorial to President Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City.
