FDR
�There are very few things that we can know before hand. We will try, and if we decide that we are wrong, we will have to change.� --Franklin Delano Roosevelt about his promise of �a New Deal for the forgotten man.�
These are the words of a courageous man who demonstrated inspiration and hope to a country that had appeared to have spun out of economic control, a country in desperation.
On October 24th, 1929, the stock market crashed, causing a domino effect on the American public during the first years of the 1930�s. The standard of living dropped dramatically, millions, more than one-fourth, of people were put out of work, banks were closed, international trade was stagnant, homeless ...
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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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