John Nance Garner on F.D.R. (Collier's, 1948)A printable article by John Nance Garner (1868 - 1967), FDR's first Vice-President (1933 - 1941), who wrote a number of pieces for the readers of COLLIER'S MAGAZINE in 1948 outlining the various reasons for their contentious relationship. This four page article is a segment of a longer one that laid out the cause for one of their most bitter arguments: the Flint Sit-Down Strike (1936 - 1937).
"Cactus Jack" Garner bickered with F.D.R. on a number of issues; primarily supporting a balanced federal budget and opposing F.D.R.'s efforts to pack the Supreme Court. Within these attached pages, Garner tells how Roosevelt lost the support of his Democratic Congress.
Leon Trotsky Speaks About FDR and the Depression (Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1938)Two and a half years were left on the clock for the exiled Leon Trotsky (né Lev Davidovich Bronstein: 1879 – 1940) until he would have to keep his rendezvous with an icepick in Mexico - and while living it up on this borrowed time he granted an interview to this one correspondent from a Beverly Hills literary magazine in which he ranted on in that highly-dated and terribly awkward Bolsheviki language about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his social programs.
The Four Inaugurations of F.D.R. (from the Truman Inaugural Program, 1949)A one page history regarding the unprecedented swearing-in ceremonies of the four-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945).
Read a 1933 article about FDR and the disaster that he tried to fix...
*Watch A Film Clip About FDR's First Innauguration*
FDR's Doctor Speaks (Collier's Magazine, 1946)Published ten months after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, Vice-Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, reminisced about Roosevelt's illness and his observations of the man:
"The Pearl Harbor attack put a pressure on the President that never lifted.
With the flower of American youth fighting and dying on land and sea, he looked on any sparing of himself as a betrayal..."
"In the summer of 1942, the long, dragging weeks of getting ready for the invasion of North Africa put a heavy additional strain on the President, and worse still were the anxious hours when he waited for news of the landings."
"As summer gave way to fall, and arrangements were completed for the Big Three conference at Tehran, my one insistence was on a more leisurely manner of travel. I knew that the travel to Tehran would be more arduous than the Casablanca trip."
Recommended Reading: FDR's Deadly Secret
A New Deal for Women (The Literary Digest, 1933)This historic article appeared during the opening weeks of Roosevelt's first term administration announcing that the new president was taking a novel approach in granting various appointments to government positions of leadership by selecting numerous women who had proved their mettle in the fiery furnace of 1920s Democratic party politics.
Indeed, the women named were all well known and of hardy stock, such as Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman governor of Wyoming, Ruth Bryan Owen, who was the first congresswoman to represent Florida and Francis Perkins who had served the president in good stead as his industrial commissioner during his days as the Governor of New York. Ross was appointed as the Director of the U.S. Mint, she stood at that post until 1953. FDR appointed Owen to serve as the ambassador to Denmark and Perkins would serve for twelve years in the cabinet as Labor Secretary.
1924 was a very important year for American women in politics...
FDR's Funeral (Yank Magazine, 1945)A lengthy magazine article from YANK reporting on the funeral of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 – 1945), 32nd president of the United States. The journalist (Debs Myers), devoted much space to the thoughts of those who knew the man and the impressions of the unknown citizens who stood in the fields to watch his train or stare in disbelief as his caisson passed them on Pennsylvania Avenue:
"Northward the train rolled, taking Franklin Roosevelt home...At lonely crossroads and and in great cities, the common people had come to say their good-bye to this cripple man who once had taken a crippled nation and helped it walk once more."
•Watch Color Footage of FDR's Funeral•
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