The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show with their inaugural gowns.

Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president inaugurated on the new date in 1937 for his second inauguration. 4.

Roosevelt’s first inauguration had been shadowed by the onset of The Great Depression. Within a week of taking office, the new president had declared a federal bank holiday.

He suggested some of what Trump said highlighted the starkest departure from a past administration since Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt.

But what about the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution? In 1951, Democrats made the tacit admission that Roosevelt had stayed too long, and a number of them joined with Republicans to put a hard ...

Answer: C. Entering office at the depth of the Great Depression and amid increasing bank failures, Roosevelt used the first of his record four inaugural addresses to calm his jittery fellow citizens.

The tradition of using a Bible during the swearing-in goes back to the very first inauguration, but not all Presidents have used one.

Nothing like this has been witnessed since former President Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in 1933 amid the Great Depression. Roosevelt summoned Congress into a three-month special session ...

Video Clip: President Roosevelt 1945 Inaugural Address Description Newsreel footage of a portion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration address was shown.

But most Inauguration Days have been far more auspicious than Harrison’s, and some have marked turning points in the nation’s sense of itself. Far from being ceremonies only, they foretold much of ...