This speech manages to do a bunch of contradictory things at the same time. It manages to be chatty and crazy formal. It manages to make allusions and stick to the hard facts. And it manages to mak...

Hitler is moving west, France has fallen, and Great Britain is in danger of crumbling like a stale crumpet. And that's just the beginning, folks. FDR wanted to get people thinking in terms of worst...

Here's a shocker: the motif of patriotism crops up fairly frequently in this State of the Union address. We know, we know. Who'da thunk it?And FDR allows himself to get a little poetic on the subje...