The Democratic Party under President Franklin D Roosevelt (for Social Security, 1935), and the same party under Lyndon Johnson for Medicare (1965).
DEMOCRATS
Lyndon Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt.
Franklin Roosevelt was the President in 1935 and he was a Democrat. (You can thank or curse the Democrats for most of the federal social spending initiatives.)
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic-Republican party (but they just called it the Republican party). They created the Republican party to oppose the Federalist party. The Republican party that they created was the second political party in the United States.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson started the Democratic-Republican party (but they just called it the Republican party). They created the Republican party to oppose the Federalist party. The Republican party that they created was the second political party in the United States.
The Democrats started the American welfare system, under President Franklin Roosevelt.
William Howard Taft was the incumbent Republican President and was nominated for a second term by his party in 1912. Teddy Roosevelt who started off as a Republican left and started a new party. This cost Taft the re-election and put a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson in as President.
Theodore Roosevelt started the Progressive Party.
A president named Cavaco Silva and the prime minister Jose SocratesJose Sócrates, from the Portuguese Socialist Party, its the Portuguese Prime-Minister.The President is Cavaco Silva, from the Portuguese Social-Democracy Party
Lenin started the Bolshevik Party, as a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903. It became a separate party some years after that. It was renamed the Communist Party in March 1918.