It shouldn?t come as too much of a shock that the first car for the office of America?s top politician ran on hot air.Steam to be exact.It was just over 100 years ago that Sportsman President Theodore Roosevelt was ferried about Washington D.C. (quite reluctantly ...

Shades of FDR: Obama comes up with varied approach to confront worst recession since the 1930sFranklin Roosevelt, confronted with the worst economic crisis in the nation's history, wrote the book on government jobs programs. Since FDR, presidents have been less ambitious because the economic challenges they faced were less ...

Thanksgiving gives us reason to be grateful for the American can-do spirit A cursory look at the past year can put a damper on this Thanksgiving Day. The nation has seen the recession worsen. Unemployment is at 10.2 percent, and economists say this could be a long, slow recovery ...

Bill before Congress to clear way for FDR artifacts to be donated to his presidential libraryThe last great archives of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency may soon be available to researchers and the public — 14 boxes of handwritten notes, gifts and correspondence, including a letter from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini ...