Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration ... and with the fear of inflation spurring him on, he decides to slash relief and public works funds so that the budget can be balanced.

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Yet that Saturday had a momentousness about it. It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around their radios to hear the ...