Presidential Chronicles

Episode #314: Franklin Roosevelt #3: Navy and War (1913-1919)


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Franklin Roosevelt #3: Navy and War (1913-1919); Topics covered include: Assistant Secretary of the Navy, aided by Louis Howe, World War I, election of 1916, Germans resort to unrestricted submarine warfare, U.S. enters the War, Roosevelt's efforts to stop German U-Boats, and his visit to the front


Key people include: Josephus Daniels, Louis Howe, Emory Land, Franz Ferdinand, Woodrow Wilson, James Gerard, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Hughes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hugh Scott, Leonard Wood, John Jellicoe, Ralph Browne, William Sims, King George V, David Lloyd George, and Marshal Foch


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Presidential ChroniclesBy David Fisher