On March 12, 1933, just eight days after taking office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American people in an unprecedented national radio broadcast.

One day after he took the oath of office in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt declared a weeklong bank holiday. That was just the opening salvo. Roosevelt not only shut down the banks ...

When Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is in desperate straits. He will take quick steps to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress will come up with the Emergency ...