Lawyers know the big speeches in American history: Franklin Delano Roosevelt declaring a "date that will live in infamy," Abraham Lincoln consecrating the ground at Gettysburg and the Rev.

To the Editor: I was wrong! As a 74-year-old native Westporter, I have lived to see and experience the good and the bad under 13 U.S. Presidents, starting with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Jon McNaughton's painting "The Forgotten Man" is meant to be controversial. If you are a Republican you'll applaud the piece.

One-hundred and thirty years ago, on January 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, was born into a wealthy Hudson River Valley family in Hyde Park, New York, now a national historic site and home to his presidential library.

The couple got engaged in November, married on St. Patrick's Day 1905, and produced six children, five of whom survived infancy.

Before Franklin Delano Roosevelt even took the oath of office, a paranoia-driven Italian immigrant named Giuseppe Zangara shot at the president-elect while at a rally in Miami, narrowly missing him and fatally wounding Chicago Mayor Anton "Tony" Cermak.

Since Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, the new two party system has gone through 3 distinct presidential phases, Republicans dominated in the first and third, Democrats in the 2nd.

Newt Gingrich claims the President Obama is the "food-stamp president." May I remind him that the "bread-line president," Franklin Delano Roosevelt, served for 12 years and was elected three times because he actually cared about those who were adversely affected by the Great Depression? The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to ... (more)

This week, though, the former Speaker is also undoubtedly in accord with FDR's aphorism, "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." To his great credit, Newt has made an enemy of CAIR.

During the extremely severe depression era of the 1930's, I was no admirer of four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.