FDR

Part I of Essay
“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 i ....

Part II of Essay
.... middle of its worst crisis since the Civil War. “It seemed as if they (the citizens of the United States) would do anything, if only 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 wha ....