Franklin Matthias. Gilbert Church. Crawford Greenewalt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Harry S. Major Charles W. Robert Oppenheimer. Glenn Seaborg. Email Print Text. Circuit Court of Appeals Mary W. Marion J. Harron, California: First woman member of U. Court of Tax Appeals. Carrick H.
Jewell W. Swofford, Missouri: First woman member of U. Employees' Compensation Commission. Served as U. Delegate to U. Conference of Food and Agriculture. What was the Good Neighbor Policy? Under the new policy, the United States pledged that it would treat Latin American nations with respect and avoid intervening in their foreign and domestic affairs.
The goal of the policy was to strengthen the United States economy by increasing trade with Latin America. A necessary prerequisite to increased trade was the improvement of political relations with those countries and the assurance that the United States would no longer interfere in the affairs of its neighbors. As a by-product of the policy, all Latin American countries eventually joined the United States in the war against the Axis Powers.
Even as the United States was moving closer to war, FDR began to formulate his ideas for a post-war world. FDR suggested the name "United Nations" for the group, and in October he sent representatives to Moscow to begin preliminary discussions with their counterparts from the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and China about the structure of a world political organization.
The leaders also agreed to call a conference in San Francisco, California on April 25, to prepare a Charter for the new organization. Despite this loss, the San Francisco Conference reached final agreement, and delegates from fifty nations signed the Charter on June 26, On October 24, the Big Five plus one-half of the other nations had ratified the Charter, and the United Nations was officially born.
Was there ever an assassination attempt on FDR? However, after the presidential election of , and before the inauguration in March , FDR nearly lost his life to an assassin's bullet. Joseph Zangara, a thirty-three year old disillusioned Italian immigrant jumped onto a park bench and fired four shots towards FDR's car.
FDR was not hit, but Mayor Cermak was wounded mortally and died a few weeks later. The public and press hailed FDR's courage in refusing to allow his driver to leave the scene before first attending to the wounded Mayor Cermak and driving him to the hospital. Zangara later stated that he did not hate FDR personally, but rather he hated all government officials and all rich people no matter from which country they came.
Zangara was executed for the murder of Mayor Cermak. The Library's mission is to foster research and education on the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their continuing impact on contemporary life. Roosevelt's Presidency.
Walker, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Forrestal, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Although he initially tried to avoid direct U. His arteriosclerosis hardening of the arteries had been worsened by the stress of serving as a war-time president.
In April , just over four months before the war finally ended in an Allied victory, FDR died of a stroke at his vacation home in Warm Springs, Georgia. In , Theodore Roosevelt ran for a third non-consecutive term, but lost.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Senate, becoming the first First Lady to win elected office. After meeting her husband, Bill, at Yale Law School, she spent This date in was a pivotal moment in U.
The results in Florida were unclear by the end of election night and resulted in a recount and a Supreme Court With only 55 percent of the electorate voting, the lowest turnout since , Nixon carried all states but Massachusetts, taking 97 percent of the electoral votes.
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