Roosevelt, President Franklin Delano

The first page of a letter dated August 2, 1939, from Abert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the letter Einstein ad /ises Roosevelt of the possibilities of nuclear research. (Corbis-Eettmann ... 

The American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said that there is nothing to fear but fear itself. It was a wise conclusion, especially from the standpoint of clinical psychology. Fear is indeed frightening. So much so that phobias - irrational fears of situations that are not dangerous - can be generated and maintained by the simple belief that one will experience intense fear. The panic and anxiety that are aroused in these disorders can be a simple, but intense, fear of fear.56... 

The following passage describes the Great Depression and the relief policies introduced under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that aimed to mitigate the effects of the crisis. 

THIN MAN. The original nuclear weapon designs selected by the United States were dubbed Thin Man and Fat Man, after U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill, respectively. Thin Man was to be a gun-type nuclear device, while Fat Man would be an implosion device. Both would use plutonium as the nuclear explosive. The design for Fat Man proved successful, but that for Thin Man encountered technical problems, causing it to be abandoned and an alternate design— Little Boy —using uranium was selected. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democratic president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Ranked by historians as one of the three greatest presidents, he presided over a major overhaul of U.S. law on prescription drugs with the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Although it took several years to pass the law, Roosevelt supported the efforts of the FDA to modernize and improve the control of prescription drugs. 

No document Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed authenticates the fateful decision to expedite research toward an atomic bomb that Vannevar Bush reported in his October 9 memorandum to James Bryant Conant the archives divulge no smoking gun. The closest the record come to a piece of paper that changed the world is a banality. Bush personally delivered the third National Academy of Sciences report to the President on November 27, 1941. Roosevelt returned it to him two months later with a note on White House stationery written in black ink with a broad-nibbed pen, a note that would communicate only a commonplace of the housekeeping of... 

The day these events cluster around, April 12, saw another book closed at midday, in Warm Springs, Georgia, while sitting for a portrait, Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the sixty-third year of his life was shattered by a massive cerebral hemorrhage. He lingered comatose through the afternoon and died at 3 35 p.m. He had served his nation as President for thirteen years. 

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