Third and fourth terms of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt Committee, the first national program designed to prevent employment discrimination. The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the ratification the 22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796. Both Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt were attacked for trying to obtain a third non-consecutive term. Roosevelt systematically undercut prominent Democrats who were angling for the nomination, including Vice President John Nance Garner and two cabinet members, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Postmaster General James Farley. Roosevelt moved the convention to Chicago where he had strong support from the
Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History The Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History is an annual prize established in 1986 and given by The New York Council of the Navy League of the United States, the Roosevelt Institute, and the Theodore Roosevelt Association. It is given for the best book on American naval history published in the previous calendar year. The prize commemorates Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who both served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and who both supported the United States Navy as Presidents of the United States. The judges