"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt
Main Points:
•Introduces the New Deal
•Longest serving American President 1933-1945(4 terms)
•13 million unemployed when elected
•Infantile paralysis
•Dies of a brain hemorrage in 1945 before WWII finishes
Summary:
Once in office, FDR set to work immediately. His "New Deal," it turned out, involved regulation and reform of the banking system, massive government spending to "prime the pump" by restarting the economy and putting people back to work, and the creation of a social services network to support those who had fallen on hard times.
- During the Hundred Days, F.D.R. took the country in a whole new direction.
- Roosevelt, by contrast, insisted that when people could not help themselves, government had to step in, "not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty".
- Between 8 March and 16 June, in what later became known as the "First Hundred Days".
- Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills which, together, formed the basis of the New Deal.
•Introduces the New Deal
•Longest serving American President 1933-1945(4 terms)
•13 million unemployed when elected
•Infantile paralysis
•Dies of a brain hemorrage in 1945 before WWII finishes
Summary:
Once in office, FDR set to work immediately. His "New Deal," it turned out, involved regulation and reform of the banking system, massive government spending to "prime the pump" by restarting the economy and putting people back to work, and the creation of a social services network to support those who had fallen on hard times.