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someone would tell them what to do,” said wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, about the throngs of Americans crowded around their radios listening to President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4th, 1933. He would be the 32nd President.
He had promised a recipe for recovery to the very same millions who’s’ president had abandoned them, and it made him an over-night sensation.
Charm and persuasion was what the citizens needed, not someone telling then that all hope was lost. “There is a duty on the part of the government to do something about this,” said F.D.R. He was in great opposition to Hoover’s “rugged individualism” approach and believed that only mass government intervention could revive, or even lift the economy out of its debt.
His ease with public speaking, all-American appearance, and optimistic approach were not his only presidential campaign platforms, however. Years before this presidential election, F.D.R. had been active in politics, serving as Vice President ...

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