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During WWII, a dress-wearing squirrel sold war bonds alongside FDR

Popular Science 18 Dec 2025
A few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, a little girl was walking to school in northwest Washington, D.C. when she found a baby squirrel that had apparently fallen out of a hickory tree ... Image. ... Image ... .
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History is revealing a truer picture of FDR, the president whose failures still plague us today

New York Post 17 Dec 2025
But this scene has started to change as a new generation of scholars — left, right and in-between — have begun offering more critical assessments of FDR and his legacy ... An early critical account of FDR was John T ... Mary Grabar’s “Debunking FDR.
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WATCH: FDR’s ‘Date Which Will Live In Infamy’ Speech After Pearl Harbor Attack In 1941

Space Coast Daily 07 Dec 2025
address is one of the most famous of all American political speeches. ABOVE VIDEO. One day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese bombers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the U.S ... into World War II ... .
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Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR ...

San Francisco Chronicle 04 Dec 2025
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.). Graeme Mack, University of Richmond ... .
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Grand Ole Opry debuts; FDR, Stalin and Churchill meet in Terhan: Today in history, Nov. 28

The Oregonian 28 Nov 2025
Today in history.. On Nov. 28, 1925, the Grand Ole Opry (known then as the WSM Barn Dance) debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; it continues today as the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. Also on this date. ... ....
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Why Did FDR Change the Date of Thanksgiving?

Hot Air 27 Nov 2025
Elected U.S. president amid the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt became known for bucking historical norms to expand the powers of the central government and provide a lifeline to struggling Americans ... Advertisement ... .
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Are Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson Democratic Socialists or FDR Democrats? They Are Both

TPM 21 Nov 2025
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis ... They’re warning that the U.S ... ....
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There were two Thanksgivings in 1939. What Erie, the nation thought of FDR's move

GoErie 21 Nov 2025
Why does the president pardon a turkey? Fun facts about Thanksgiving ... 23, not Nov ... 23 as Thanksgiving ... “FDR has messed up everything else so he might as well mess up the turkey dinner.”.School kids are wondering why FDR doesn't delay Labor Day ... Dr.
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MTA celebrates 85th anniversary of Queens-Midtown Tunnel opening

QNS 17 Nov 2025
The MTA marked a significant landmark on Saturday when it celebrated the 85th anniversary of the opening of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. The tunnel, which opened to the general public on Nov. 15, 1940, is a relic of President Franklin D ... Nov.15, 1940 ... Nov.
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Fox Business host on Trump's 50-year mortgage proposal: 'I do not like this idea'

The Hill 10 Nov 2025
Fox Business Network host Charles Payne criticized President Trump’s 50-year mortgage proposal, saying that’s “not the way” to address affordability. “I do not like this idea,” Payne said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom,” when asked about the plan.
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How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR

The Los Angeles Times 09 Nov 2025
FDR took office in 1933, when the Great Depression was in full swing ... Like then, the public today is desperate for security, and unselfish, service leadership — not that of 'economic royalists,' as FDR described them.
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