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Fala (April 7, 1940 – April 5, 1952), a Scottish Terrier, was the dog of United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of the most famous presidential pets, Fala was taken to many places by Roosevelt. [1] Given to the Roosevelts by a cousin, Fala knew how to perform tricks; the dog and his White House antics were mentioned frequently by ...
Nixon. The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R - CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him ...
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...
Commonwealth Club Address. The Commonwealth Club Address (23 September 1932) was a speech made by New York Governor and Democratic presidential nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on his 1932 presidential campaign. [1][2] Roosevelt said the era of growth and unrestricted entrepreneurship had ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Fala (1940) Fala (April 7, 1940 – April 5, 1952) – Scottish Terrier [37] Major – German Shepherd [118] Formerly a police dog from the New York State Police [121] After a number of White House biting incidents, he was sent to live at Roosevelt's private residence in Hyde Park, New York. [122] Meggie – Scottish ...
In addition, the exhibition will feature archival video footage to highlight some of the most notable presidential dogs, such as excerpts from FDR’s “Fala” speech, and Nixon’s “Checkers ...
The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, later the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fevers; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery.