Theodore Roosevelt thought that Theobald Chartran's portrait of him made him look like a 'mewling cat.' His children teased him about it. The painting had to go.

A new biography looks at how FDR’s thwarted dream of serving in a Navy uniform primed him to eventually become president. But Harvey Kaye says the preparation came even earlier.

President Donald Trump‘s second Oval Office got its big debut Monday, including the return of an Andrew Jackson portrait and the reemergence of the Reagan rug.. The rug, which was in place ...

ALBANY — Historian Joseph Persico, the author of three books on Franklin D. Roosevelt, looked forward to watching "Hyde Park on Hudson" and Bill Murray's portrayal of FDR with relish. Hold the ...

Fifty years ago today, Franklin D. Roosevelt died while sitting for a portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. It is probably true that everyone school age ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with John Q. Barrett, editor of That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by the late Robert H. Jackson. Jackson, one of Roosevelt's close friends and ...

Life Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 174 Views Program ID: 96805-32 Category: C-SPAN Specials Format: Vignette Location: Hyde Park, New York, United States. Related Video.

FDR: Portrait of American leadership President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his desk in the ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: A Political Life. By Robert Dallek, Viking, 692 pp., illustrated, $40.