While Theodore Roosevelt was elected Vice President in 1900 and would ascend to the presidency a year later when William McKinley was assassinated, Franklin Roosevelt lost his bid to be the VP in ...

Professor Bill Brands, editor of [The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt], talked about the lives of President Theodore Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin. He compared their different approaches ...

• Franklin admired his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt, who was president during the years Franklin was at Harvard, and this was one of the things that spurred him to enter politics.

Our 26th president was a man larger than life—and is forever much larger than life, thanks to the fact that he's on the side of a mountain. But as with any such figure, myths and legends arise.

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and ...

• Franklin admired his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt, who was president during the years Franklin was at Harvard, and this was one of the things that spurred him to enter politics.

Born into a prominent family—Theodore Roosevelt was a distant cousin—Franklin Roosevelt was, like T.R., the assistant secretary of the Navy and New York governor before winning the 1932 ...