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Franklin Roosevelt was a confident
man who believed in empowering all people. He acted upon the ideals that a strong America is only possible when
every member of the community is accepted, protected and given an
opportunity to succeed.
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Library and Museum
Chart of the Stock Market Crash
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
FDR: Fireside chats -- Collection of inspiring and historic
"chats" this great President had with the American people. Hear him
discuss America's challenges and offer both comfort and resolution.
(MP3 format from the Miller Center of Public Affairs)
Talking Union by Pete Seeger (terrific, real audio)
Ruth Etting, Ten Cents a Dance depression-era song (wonderful,
MP3)
Gold Digger's Song (artist unknown, real audio)
This Land is My Land by Woody Guthrie (real audio)
Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington
Of Mice and Men
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The Grapes of Wrath
Eleanor Roosevelt, The American Experience
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Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
"The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself."
Strength—Security—Fairness—Tolerance—Hope for a
Better Future—Interdependence—Unity |
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Protector of the People under Responsible Government
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of
the greatest visionaries of our time. He is an
important architect of the ideals that the Democratic
Party has long been known for: Strength, Fairness,
Security, Hope, Interdependence. His main impact
was the institution of major economic and social
assistance programs in response to the
Great Depression (known as the
New Deal), leading the country through a successful
involvement in
World War II, and helping in the formation of the
United Nations.
During this time of crisis Roosevelt
addressed the nation for the first time as President on
Sunday,
March 12,
1933 in the first of many "Fireside
Chats."
Of the various reform programs
initiated by the Roosevelt administration, the most
far-reaching and influential was the institution of the
Social Security system, meant to provide critical
support for low-income and elderly citizens who were
experiencing extreme poverty and despair.
Also in
1937, Roosevelt delivered "The Quarantine Speech" in
Chicago. In it he compared the outbreak of international
violence to that of a communicable
disease needing to be
quarantined.
Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek, President Roosevelt,
and Winston Churchill at the
Cairo Conference in 1943
Roosevelt was the first President to
regularly address the American public through the medium
of
radio. He instituted a tradition of weekly radio
speeches, which he called "fireside chats." These
"chats" gave him the opportunity to take his opinions to
the American people, and they often bolstered his
popularity as he campaigned for various changes. During
World War II the fireside chats were seen as important
morale boosters for Americans at home.
One speech he is famous for delivering
was his
State of the Union Address in
1941. This speech is also known as the
Four Freedoms Speech. His address to Congress and
the nation on
Monday,
December 8,
1941 following the attack on
Pearl Harbor entered history with the phrase, "December
Seventh,
1941—a date which will live in infamy."
Following that speech, the U.S entered
World War II with the Allies.
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"We must remember that any oppression, any
injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our
civilization."
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"A
nation, like a person, has a mind—a mind that must be kept
informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands
the hopes and needs of its neighbors—all the other nations
that live within the narrowing circle of the world."
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"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
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"We
are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many
religions—bound together by a single unity, the unity of
freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality
against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities."
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"No business which depends for existence on
paying less than living wages to its workers has any right
to continue in this country."
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"The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
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"The only thing we
have to fear is fear itself."
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