Major Acts As with Lincoln, the other great wartime president, it is difficult to adequately sum up the achievements of Franklin Roosevelt. Like Lincoln, he was a canny and powerful politician who ...

At the outbreak of World War I, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt voiced his disapproval of President Wilson’s stance ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the most executive ... implement New Deal programs and handle World War II. Truman signed the second most executive orders — 906 total.

Eleanor volunteers at St. Elizabeth Hospital to visit World War I veterans ... of Bureau of Women's Activities; FDR is elected as governor of New York. President Herbert Hoover declares that ...