WASHINGTON, July 1, 1933 (UP) -- The most daring innovation in President Roosevelt's economic "New Deal" is the relaxation of the anti-trust laws, administration of which has for 40 years tested ...

Roosevelt’s administration created the legislation — part of the New Deal reforms — in order to avoid a relapse into the Great Depression after the war ended. "FDR particularly wanted to ...

Then-president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt had just concluded a speech in Miami on Feb. 15, 1933 when shots rang out.

The former big-government-loving ex-president survived and carried on with his campaign. I am talking, of course, about the shooting of Theodore Roosevelt in October 1912 as he campaigned to reclaim ...

Robert L. Ramsay of West Virginia. By Ray Hill I have oftentimes stated my belief that the U.S. House of Representatives, for ...

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination. He was shot in the back of the head in 1865 during an ...

While it is easy to become discouraged by the stream of depressing political headlines that assault us, American democracy is ...

and politics in a reelection campaign. "I think history gives us two ways of thinking about this extraordinary moment," said Doris Kearns Goodwin. In 1944, she notes, Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Former President Donald Trump was recovering Sunday from an assassination attempt made at a campaign rally Saturday ... and then-president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt had just finished speaking ...