On September 23, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his famous Fala speech, which became a defining moment in his fourth presidential campaign. So who was the Terrier that helped FDR win his ...
On this day in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaigning successfully for a fourth term during World War II, derisively defended Fala, his black Scottie, against a Republican political attack ...
President Roosevelt and Fala at the White House, Christmas 1941. Credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Roosevelt and Fala in 1940, during a picnic on Sunset Hill.
Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Fala listening to FDR's Acceptance Speech, 1944. Berman is a senior editor at TIME. “These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife or ...