What bad things did Franklin D. Roosevelt do?

After Harvard, FDR went on to Columbia Law School, where he promptly flunked contracts and civil procedure and had to make up the classes over the summer. “Franklin Roosevelt was not much of a student and nothing of a lawyer afterwards,” one professor later recalled. read more

Letter of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, May 18th, 1942 : When I was a boy in the ‘nineties’, I used to see a good many French Canadians who had rather recently come into the New Bedford area, near the old Delano place, at Fair Haven. read more

FDR was convinced that falling prices were slowing economic recovery. So he decided that the thing to do was to get prices up. read more

Roosevelt was distantly related to both his wife and 11 other presidents. An only child with maternal roots dating back to the Mayflower, Franklin D. Roosevelt spent a privileged childhood in Hyde Park, New York, prior to attending an elite Massachusetts boarding school. read more