You have to have more than a spoonful of patriotism to take office as President during the biggest economic disaster in a country's recent history. And Franky D. wants to pass on that patriotism to...

You would think that—in a speech that aimed to calm the American public down—mentioning a word that conjures up the Black Plague, tuberculosis, and the boils that spread over Egypt when the Pha...

FDR is no stranger to invoking fear in his speeches. After all, in his 1933 inaugural speech he famously said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Which is still such a good line…alth...

Towards the end of his speech, Roosevelt uses an interesting phrase to imply that Americans are loyal to him. He says "it has been wonderful to me to catch the note of confidence from all over the...