FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Archive

The Next Voice You Hear
Miss Grandpa’s voice on the radio?
Fret no more, Ronald Reagan is coming back to AM! It’s the very best of radio at it’s most analog, lovingly resurrected to win another generation to the cause.
It’s the hits of the 70s, 80s, 90s and today, without the clutter […]

Beginning of the End
A fugitive from American fraud and bribery charges since the 1970s, Robert Vesco may have died in Cuba, which jailed him for a more than a decade.
The Associated Press reports that a Robert Vesco died and was buried last year in Havana, but quotes an American writer who interviewed […]

Getting Right With Jesus

“The omnipresence of “God bless America” as a political slogan is an entirely recent phenomenon. We know because we’ve run the numbers. Analysis of more than 15,000 public communications by political leaders from Franklin Roosevelt’s election in 1932 — the beginning of the modern presidency — through six years of […]

Honor Roll
Brussels journall takes the time to go where the streets have no name, or at least not ones it approves of. Thanks to the ceaseless proliferation of web-based tools they offer what can only be hoped is the definitive survey of
Belgian Streets Named after US […]

Theatre of the Stars
Writers never tire of linking politicians to pop culture. It’s favorite lists, free association and bad jokes, with the patina of History.
Peter “Not TV’s Scamp” Bart steps forward in Variety to do the honors this election season. Bart mobilizes material he appears to have been working on before […]