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Opinion: Mr. President, We Need a Real Jobs Program

(Sept. 9) -- Over the past year, the unemployment rate has hardly budged, now hovering at 9.6 percent, which translates to 14.6 million people who want to work but can't find jobs, with another 8.5 million who are working part time but want and need full-time jobs. And then there is the huge uncounted number who have...

Citing FDR, Putin Hints of Return to Presidency

(Sept. 7) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday dropped his strongest hint so far that he might run again for his old job as president by invoking the lengthy political career of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The prime minister told reporters and foreign policy analysts that he hasn't ruled out...

Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?

(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical...

FDR Kept Deadly Disease Secret, New Book Claims

(Jan. 3) -- It's hardly news that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a healthy man as he led the nation during World War II. But aside from the cardiac problems that the public has known about for years, the authors of a new book argue that he suffered from a deadly form of skin cancer, and that it eventually killed...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.

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