Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also known as
  • FDR,
  • Franklin D. Rossevelt,
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) , often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he is the only president to have served more than two terms, and served from 1933 to 1945. During the Great Depression, Roosevelt created the New Deal to provide relief for the unemployed, recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic and banking systems. Roosevelt introduced new taxes that affected all income groups. Conservatives vehemently fought back, but Roosevelt usually prevailed until he tried to pack the Supreme Court in 1937. Although recovery of the economy was incomplete until almost 1940, the programs he initiated such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have instrumental roles in the nation's commerce. One of his most important legacies is the Social Security... full article at wikipedia

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  • Jan 30, 1882
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  • Mar 17, 1905
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  • 1900
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The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
War is a contagion.
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
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  • Apr 12, 1945
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  • Mar 4, 1933
  • Apr 12, 1945
  • 1913
  • 1920
  • Jan 1, 1929
  • Dec 31, 1932
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