President Obama notes that it was Theodore Roosevelt who first called for health care reform nearly a century ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Roosevelt was forty-two years old -- the youngest man ever to hold the office of president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

In New York, Roosevelt made a major speech promising to continue the work of his administration if he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

His distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, began his presidency in nineteen thirty-three and served until his death in nineteen forty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The official dedication did not take place until nineteen forty, when President Franklin Roosevelt spoke at a ceremony in the park.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The first Academy Awards were presented in nineteen twenty-nine during a private dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Another friend sent this message to Roosevelt on his forty-sixth birthday: "You have made a very good start in life.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

The man who came to represent the spirit of reform most of all was the new president, Theodore Roosevelt.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

President Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor planted what was called a "Victory Garden" as part of the war effort in nineteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

And three years later she led a children's march to President Theodore Roosevelt's New York home to protest child labor.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

This week in our series, Maurice Joyce and Shep O'Neal tell the story of President Theodore Roosevelt and his administration.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Theodore Roosevelt, who later became president of the United States, called Riis the most useful citizen in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Roosevelt's chief political adviser, James Farley, worked hard to find Roosevelt the votes he needed at the convention.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

President Roosevelt had this painting hung in the White House as a celebration of American art and engineering.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

When Theodore Roosevelt won the election of nineteen-oh-four, he announced he would not be a candidate in nineteen-oh-eight.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

The tradition of marking the first one hundred days of a new president began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Roosevelt would make Garner the vice presidential nominee if Garner's forces voted to make Roosevelt the presidential nominee.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

But the closeness of their friendship might be seen best in a story told by one of Roosevelt's close advisers, Harry Hopkins.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

President Roosevelt won even more public support for his actions during a labor crisis in the coal industry.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Roosevelt disagreed. "My business," he said, "is to see fair play among all men -- capitalists or wage-workers.

VOA: special.2010.08.12