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On January 30, 1882, Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945), was born in Hyde Park, New York
(d. 1945). From the article:
"FDR Biography - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
The Early Years
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James (1907), Elliott (1910), Franklin, Jr. (1914) and John (1916).
Roosevelt was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. As a reward for his support, Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913, a position he held until 1920. He was an energetic and efficient administrator, specializing in the business side of naval administration. This experience prepared him for his future role as Commander-in-Chief during World War II. Roosevelt's popularity and success in naval affairs resulted in his being nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio. However, popular sentiment against Wilson's plan for US participation in the League of Nations propelled Republican Warren Harding into the presidency, and Roosevelt returned to private life.
While vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Despite courageous efforts to overcome his crippling illness, he never regained the use of his legs. In time, he established a foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia to help other polio victims, and inspired, as well as directed, the March of Dimes program that eventually funded an effective vaccine.
With the encouragement and help of his wife, Eleanor, and political confidant, Louis Howe, Roosevelt resumed his political career. In 1924 he nominated Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention, but Smith lost the nomination to John W. Davis. In 1928 Smith became the Democratic candidate for president and arranged for Roosevelt's nomination to succeed him as governor of New York. Smith lost the election to Herbert Hoover; but Roosevelt was elected governor.
Following his reelection as governor in 1930, Roosevelt began to campaign for the presidency. While the economic depression damaged Hoover and the Republicans, Roosevelt's bold efforts to combat it in New York enhanced his reputation. In Chicago in 1932, Roosevelt won the nomination as the Democratic Party candidate for president. He broke with tradition and flew to Chicago to accept the nomination in person. He then campaigned energetically calling for government intervention in the economy to provide relief, recovery, and reform. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes.
The Great Depression
The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal programs. To halt depositor panics, he closed the banks temporarily. Then he worked with a special session of Congress during the first "100 days" to pass recovery legislation which set up alphabet agencies such as the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) to support farm prices and the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) to employ young men. Other agencies assisted business and labor, insured bank deposits, regulated the stock market, subsidized home and farm mortgage payments, and aided the unemployed. These measures revived confidence in the economy. Banks reopened and direct relief saved millions from starvation. But the New Deal measures also involved government directly in areas of social and economic life as never before and resulted in greatly increased spending and unbalanced budgets which led to criticisms of Roosevelt's programs. However, the nation-at-large supported Roosevelt, and elected additional Democrats to state legislatures and governorships in the mid-term elections.
Another flurry of New Deal legislation followed in 1935 including the establishment of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) which provided jobs not only for laborers but also artists, writers, musicians, and authors, and the Social Security act which provided unemployment compensation and a program of old-age and survivors' benefits.
Roosevelt easily defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936 and went on to defeat by lesser margins, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. He thus became the only American president to serve more than two terms.
After his overwhelming victory in 1936, Roosevelt took on the critics of the New Deal, namely, the Supreme Court, which had declared various legislation unconstitutional, and members of his own party. In 1937 he proposed to add new justices to the Supreme Court, but critics said he was "packing" the Court and undermining the separation of powers. His proposal was defeated, but the Court began to decide in favor of New Deal legislation. During the 1938 election he campaigned against many Democratic opponents, but this backfired when most were reelected to Congress. These setbacks, coupled with the recession that occurred midway through his second term, represented the low-point in Roosevelt's presidential career.
World War II
By 1939, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. New Deal reform legislation diminished, and the ills of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war.
When Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939, Roosevelt stated that, although the nation was neutral, he did not expect America to remain inactive in the face of Nazi aggression. Accordingly, he tried to make American aid available to Britain, France, and China and to obtain an amendment of the Neutrality Acts which rendered such assistance difficult. He also took measures to build up the armed forces in the face of isolationist opposition.
With the fall of France in 1940, the American mood and Roosevelt's policy changed dramatically. Congress enacted a draft for military service and Roosevelt signed a "lend-lease" bill in March 1941 to enable the nation to furnish aid to nations at war with Germany and Italy. America, though a neutral in the war and still at peace, was becoming the "arsenal of democracy", as its factories began producing as they had in the years before the Depression.
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, followed four days later by Germany's and Italy's declarations of war against the United States, brought the nation irrevocably into the war. Roosevelt exercised his powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, a role he actively carried out. He worked with and through his military advisers, overriding them when necessary, and took an active role in choosing the principal field commanders and in making decisions regarding wartime strategy.
He moved to create a "grand alliance" against the Axis powers through "The Declaration of the United Nations," January 1, 1942, in which all nations fighting the Axis agreed not to make a separate peace and pledged themselves to a peacekeeping organization (now the United Nations) upon victory.
He gave priority to the western European front and had General George Marshall, Chief of Staff, plan a holding operation in the Pacific and organize an expeditionary force for an invasion of Europe. The United States and its allies invaded North Africa in November 1942 and Sicily and Italy in 1943. The D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in France, June 6, 1944, were followed by the allied invasion of Germany six months later. By April 1945 victory in Europe was certain.
The unending stress and strain of the war literally wore Roosevelt out. By early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed serious heart and circulatory problems; and although his physicians placed him on a strict regime of diet and medication, the pressures of war and domestic politics weighed heavily on him. During a vacation at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, he suffered a massive stroke and died two and one-half hours later without regaining consciousness. He was 63 years old. His death came on the eve of complete military victory in Europe and within months of victory over Japan in the Pacific. President Roosevelt was buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New York.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Fast Facts:
BORN: January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York
PARENTS: Sara Delano and, James Roosevelt His father died when he was 18. His mother died when he was 59. BROTHER: A half brother named James Roosevelt Roosevelt, (1854-1927)
EDUCATION: Tutored at home until 1896 Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1896-1900) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1900-1903) Received a B.A. in History Columbia Law School, New York City (1903-1905) Course work towards a degree in law, but no degree earned
MARRIED: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (fifth cousin once removed), March 17, 1905 in New York City.
CHILDREN: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (May 3, 1906 - December 1, 1975) James Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 - August 13, 1990) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (March 18, 1909 - November 8, 1909) Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 - October 27, 1990) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (August 17, 1914 - August 17, 1988)
ACTIVITIES: New York State Senator Assistant Secretary of the Navy Nominated for Vice President on ticket with James Cox Founded the Warm Springs Georgia Foundation Two term Governor of the State of New York Four term President of the United States, guiding the nation through the Great Depression and World War II
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Brown hair, 6 feet 2 inches tall, blue -grey eyes
DIED: April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs Georgia-cause of death listed cerebral hemorrhage.
Chronology of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Career
The Early Years
1882 Born in Hyde Park, NY on January 30
1896-1900 FDR attends Groton, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts
1900-1903 FDR attends Harvard, receiving a BA in history
1905 Married Eleanor Roosevelt, a fifth cousin once removed, in NYC on March 17 Enters Columbia Law School
1907 FDR passes the bar examination and leaves Columbia without completing a degree
1910 FDR elected to the New York State Senate
1912 FDR was re-elected to the New York State Senate
1913 FDR was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson
1920 Ran as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket along with James Cox of Ohio. Lost the election to Warren Harding and returned to private life.
1921 FDR is stricken with polio while vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick.
1924 FDR returns to politics by nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention.
1928 FDR elected governor of New York State
1930 FDR re-elected governor of New York State. Begins his campaign for the presidency.
1932 FDR is nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for president and defeats Hoover in November by seven million votes.
The New Deal Presidency
1933 FDR takes the oath of office on March 4 During his first "100 Days," he is able to get a large number of Legislative Initiatives through Congress which set up the alphabet agencies such as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration & Civilian Conservation Corps aimed at bringing about economic relief recovery & reform.
1935 Additional New Deal legislation is passed including the Works Progress Administration and Social Security
1936 FDR was re-elected president to a second term
1937 FDR proposes to add justices to the Supreme Court, in an ill fated court "packing" plan
World War II
1939 Germany invades Poland there by starting WWII. While the U.S. remains neutral, FDR does try to make American aid available to the Allied powers
1940 FDR is re-elected for an unprecedented third term
1941 In March, FDR signs the Lend-Lease bill to aid nations at war with Germany & Italy On December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into the war. The next day FDR delivers his "day of infamy" speech before Congress and asks for a formal declaration of war against Germany.
1942 FDR moves to create a "grand alliance" of Allied powers through "the Declaration of the United Nations"
1944 FDR is re-elected president for a fourth term
1945 On April 12, FDR passes away at Warm Springs, Georgia. He is buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New York."
(d. 1945). From the article:
"FDR Biography - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
The Early Years
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He attended Groton (1896-1900), a prestigious preparatory school in Massachusetts, and received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. When he passed the bar examination in 1907, he left school without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm. He entered politics in 1910 and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat from his traditionally Republican home district.
In the meantime, in 1905, he had married a distant cousin, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, who was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple had six children, five of whom survived infancy: Anna (1906), James (1907), Elliott (1910), Franklin, Jr. (1914) and John (1916).
Roosevelt was reelected to the State Senate in 1912, and supported Woodrow Wilson's candidacy at the Democratic National Convention. As a reward for his support, Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913, a position he held until 1920. He was an energetic and efficient administrator, specializing in the business side of naval administration. This experience prepared him for his future role as Commander-in-Chief during World War II. Roosevelt's popularity and success in naval affairs resulted in his being nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio. However, popular sentiment against Wilson's plan for US participation in the League of Nations propelled Republican Warren Harding into the presidency, and Roosevelt returned to private life.
While vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt contracted poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). Despite courageous efforts to overcome his crippling illness, he never regained the use of his legs. In time, he established a foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia to help other polio victims, and inspired, as well as directed, the March of Dimes program that eventually funded an effective vaccine.
With the encouragement and help of his wife, Eleanor, and political confidant, Louis Howe, Roosevelt resumed his political career. In 1924 he nominated Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention, but Smith lost the nomination to John W. Davis. In 1928 Smith became the Democratic candidate for president and arranged for Roosevelt's nomination to succeed him as governor of New York. Smith lost the election to Herbert Hoover; but Roosevelt was elected governor.
Following his reelection as governor in 1930, Roosevelt began to campaign for the presidency. While the economic depression damaged Hoover and the Republicans, Roosevelt's bold efforts to combat it in New York enhanced his reputation. In Chicago in 1932, Roosevelt won the nomination as the Democratic Party candidate for president. He broke with tradition and flew to Chicago to accept the nomination in person. He then campaigned energetically calling for government intervention in the economy to provide relief, recovery, and reform. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes.
The Great Depression
The Depression worsened in the months preceding Roosevelt's inauguration, March 4, 1933. Factory closings, farm foreclosures, and bank failures increased, while unemployment soared. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War. He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal programs. To halt depositor panics, he closed the banks temporarily. Then he worked with a special session of Congress during the first "100 days" to pass recovery legislation which set up alphabet agencies such as the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) to support farm prices and the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) to employ young men. Other agencies assisted business and labor, insured bank deposits, regulated the stock market, subsidized home and farm mortgage payments, and aided the unemployed. These measures revived confidence in the economy. Banks reopened and direct relief saved millions from starvation. But the New Deal measures also involved government directly in areas of social and economic life as never before and resulted in greatly increased spending and unbalanced budgets which led to criticisms of Roosevelt's programs. However, the nation-at-large supported Roosevelt, and elected additional Democrats to state legislatures and governorships in the mid-term elections.
Another flurry of New Deal legislation followed in 1935 including the establishment of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) which provided jobs not only for laborers but also artists, writers, musicians, and authors, and the Social Security act which provided unemployment compensation and a program of old-age and survivors' benefits.
Roosevelt easily defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936 and went on to defeat by lesser margins, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. He thus became the only American president to serve more than two terms.
After his overwhelming victory in 1936, Roosevelt took on the critics of the New Deal, namely, the Supreme Court, which had declared various legislation unconstitutional, and members of his own party. In 1937 he proposed to add new justices to the Supreme Court, but critics said he was "packing" the Court and undermining the separation of powers. His proposal was defeated, but the Court began to decide in favor of New Deal legislation. During the 1938 election he campaigned against many Democratic opponents, but this backfired when most were reelected to Congress. These setbacks, coupled with the recession that occurred midway through his second term, represented the low-point in Roosevelt's presidential career.
World War II
By 1939, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. New Deal reform legislation diminished, and the ills of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war.
When Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939, Roosevelt stated that, although the nation was neutral, he did not expect America to remain inactive in the face of Nazi aggression. Accordingly, he tried to make American aid available to Britain, France, and China and to obtain an amendment of the Neutrality Acts which rendered such assistance difficult. He also took measures to build up the armed forces in the face of isolationist opposition.
With the fall of France in 1940, the American mood and Roosevelt's policy changed dramatically. Congress enacted a draft for military service and Roosevelt signed a "lend-lease" bill in March 1941 to enable the nation to furnish aid to nations at war with Germany and Italy. America, though a neutral in the war and still at peace, was becoming the "arsenal of democracy", as its factories began producing as they had in the years before the Depression.
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, followed four days later by Germany's and Italy's declarations of war against the United States, brought the nation irrevocably into the war. Roosevelt exercised his powers as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, a role he actively carried out. He worked with and through his military advisers, overriding them when necessary, and took an active role in choosing the principal field commanders and in making decisions regarding wartime strategy.
He moved to create a "grand alliance" against the Axis powers through "The Declaration of the United Nations," January 1, 1942, in which all nations fighting the Axis agreed not to make a separate peace and pledged themselves to a peacekeeping organization (now the United Nations) upon victory.
He gave priority to the western European front and had General George Marshall, Chief of Staff, plan a holding operation in the Pacific and organize an expeditionary force for an invasion of Europe. The United States and its allies invaded North Africa in November 1942 and Sicily and Italy in 1943. The D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in France, June 6, 1944, were followed by the allied invasion of Germany six months later. By April 1945 victory in Europe was certain.
The unending stress and strain of the war literally wore Roosevelt out. By early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed serious heart and circulatory problems; and although his physicians placed him on a strict regime of diet and medication, the pressures of war and domestic politics weighed heavily on him. During a vacation at Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945, he suffered a massive stroke and died two and one-half hours later without regaining consciousness. He was 63 years old. His death came on the eve of complete military victory in Europe and within months of victory over Japan in the Pacific. President Roosevelt was buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New York.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Fast Facts:
BORN: January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York
PARENTS: Sara Delano and, James Roosevelt His father died when he was 18. His mother died when he was 59. BROTHER: A half brother named James Roosevelt Roosevelt, (1854-1927)
EDUCATION: Tutored at home until 1896 Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1896-1900) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1900-1903) Received a B.A. in History Columbia Law School, New York City (1903-1905) Course work towards a degree in law, but no degree earned
MARRIED: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (fifth cousin once removed), March 17, 1905 in New York City.
CHILDREN: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (May 3, 1906 - December 1, 1975) James Roosevelt (December 23, 1907 - August 13, 1990) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (March 18, 1909 - November 8, 1909) Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 - October 27, 1990) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (August 17, 1914 - August 17, 1988)
ACTIVITIES: New York State Senator Assistant Secretary of the Navy Nominated for Vice President on ticket with James Cox Founded the Warm Springs Georgia Foundation Two term Governor of the State of New York Four term President of the United States, guiding the nation through the Great Depression and World War II
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Brown hair, 6 feet 2 inches tall, blue -grey eyes
DIED: April 12, 1945 in Warm Springs Georgia-cause of death listed cerebral hemorrhage.
Chronology of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Career
The Early Years
1882 Born in Hyde Park, NY on January 30
1896-1900 FDR attends Groton, a private preparatory school in Massachusetts
1900-1903 FDR attends Harvard, receiving a BA in history
1905 Married Eleanor Roosevelt, a fifth cousin once removed, in NYC on March 17 Enters Columbia Law School
1907 FDR passes the bar examination and leaves Columbia without completing a degree
1910 FDR elected to the New York State Senate
1912 FDR was re-elected to the New York State Senate
1913 FDR was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson
1920 Ran as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket along with James Cox of Ohio. Lost the election to Warren Harding and returned to private life.
1921 FDR is stricken with polio while vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick.
1924 FDR returns to politics by nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York for president at the Democratic National Convention.
1928 FDR elected governor of New York State
1930 FDR re-elected governor of New York State. Begins his campaign for the presidency.
1932 FDR is nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for president and defeats Hoover in November by seven million votes.
The New Deal Presidency
1933 FDR takes the oath of office on March 4 During his first "100 Days," he is able to get a large number of Legislative Initiatives through Congress which set up the alphabet agencies such as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration & Civilian Conservation Corps aimed at bringing about economic relief recovery & reform.
1935 Additional New Deal legislation is passed including the Works Progress Administration and Social Security
1936 FDR was re-elected president to a second term
1937 FDR proposes to add justices to the Supreme Court, in an ill fated court "packing" plan
World War II
1939 Germany invades Poland there by starting WWII. While the U.S. remains neutral, FDR does try to make American aid available to the Allied powers
1940 FDR is re-elected for an unprecedented third term
1941 In March, FDR signs the Lend-Lease bill to aid nations at war with Germany & Italy On December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor bringing the United States into the war. The next day FDR delivers his "day of infamy" speech before Congress and asks for a formal declaration of war against Germany.
1942 FDR moves to create a "grand alliance" of Allied powers through "the Declaration of the United Nations"
1944 FDR is re-elected president for a fourth term
1945 On April 12, FDR passes away at Warm Springs, Georgia. He is buried in the Rose Garden of his estate at Hyde Park, New York."
FDR Biography - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
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A great President in our American history; was FDR! And What an inspiration was the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! God bless you in Heaven, Sir. SGT (Join to see)
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Many of FDR work in government has greatly impacted Americans!
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Just consider what it takes to be elected for 4 terms in office!
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FDR: A Presidency Revealed examines one of history's most compelling figures. Inspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the natio...
Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that January 30 is the anniversary of the birth of American democrat statesman and political leader Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. This democratic President leveraged the great depression to super-size the role of the Federal government as supposed savior of the people of this nation.
During FDR's time, the press could keep secrets - FRD's polio was one such secret.
The creation of social security was an oxymoron as it was never secured with funding and the FICA taxes which are spent each year while other funding being used to pay social security beneficiaries that survive until they die [assuming they have 40 good quarters of earnings]
Rest in peace Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Images:
1. Statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt with his dog, Fala, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C
2. Section of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
3. Images of FDR
4.The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR Volume 1
FDR: A Presidency Revealed examines one of history's most compelling figures. Inspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the nation's highest office during the depths of one of its darkest periods - and after being stricken with polio at the age of 39! A man of few words, he brought a desperate nation together through Fireside Chats and sweeping reforms like Social Security and the New Deal. Greater still, he lead America through the greatest war the world had ever known, and set international policy for a new global order. At the same time, his administration hid a dark underbelly teeming with covert actions, spy rings, and powerful enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xW4QqeHGlI
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During FDR's time, the press could keep secrets - FRD's polio was one such secret.
The creation of social security was an oxymoron as it was never secured with funding and the FICA taxes which are spent each year while other funding being used to pay social security beneficiaries that survive until they die [assuming they have 40 good quarters of earnings]
Rest in peace Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Images:
1. Statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt with his dog, Fala, at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C
2. Section of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.
3. Images of FDR
4.The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR Volume 1
FDR: A Presidency Revealed examines one of history's most compelling figures. Inspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the nation's highest office during the depths of one of its darkest periods - and after being stricken with polio at the age of 39! A man of few words, he brought a desperate nation together through Fireside Chats and sweeping reforms like Social Security and the New Deal. Greater still, he lead America through the greatest war the world had ever known, and set international policy for a new global order. At the same time, his administration hid a dark underbelly teeming with covert actions, spy rings, and powerful enemies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xW4QqeHGlI
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1. Franklin and his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt on their wedding day. March 17, 1905
2. Franklin Roosevelt with his mother Sara in 1887.
3. Franklin Roosevelt’s burial at his estate in Hyde Park, New York.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's long-time mistress Lucy Mercer, in about 1913 - she was Eleanor's press secretary until Eleanor discovered the affair
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was a Democratic statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.
Franklin Roosevelt was born on his family’s estate on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, to businessman James Roosevelt and his second wife, Sara Delano Roosevelt. Both of his parents came from wealthy old New York families who were well-educated and prominent members of New York society. Franklin’s father purchased the 110-acre estate in 1867 and named it Springwood. Young Franklin would spend much of his life on the estate and would eventually be buried there. It is a National Historic Site today.
The only child from his father’s second marriage to Sara Delano, young Franklin was doted on by his mother and lived a privileged life. In addition to their estate in Hyde Park, the Roosevelts also had a house in New York City and summered on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. As a young boy, Franklin made frequent trips to Europe and became fluent in German and French. As a youth, he learned to ride, shoot, row, and play polo, lawn tennis, and golf. He learned to sail and when he was just 16 years old and his father gave him a sailboat.
His parents and private tutors provided him with his early education, some of which took place in Germany at the age of nine. From 1896 to 1900, he attended Groton School, a prestigious preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts and afterward, received a BA degree in history from Harvard in 1903.
In the meantime, Franklin’s father died in 1900 and his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States in 1901. Theodore’s vigorous leadership style and ambitious reforms made him Franklin’s role model and hero.
On March 17, 1905, Franklin married his fifth cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, who he had been courting since 1902. Eleanor was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt and the pair had known each since childhood. The couple married in New York City and Eleanor’s uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, stood in at the wedding for Eleanor’s deceased father. Franklin’s mother, Sara, who was very possessive of her son, fiercely resisted the marriage, because she thought Franklin was too young. However, she did not dislike Eleanor, and when the marriage took place in spite of her feelings, she invited the couple to live with her on the Springwood estate in Hyde Park. Sara also built a pair of townhouses in New York City, one for Franklin and Eleanor, and another next door, for herself. Franklin and Eleanor would eventually have six children, five of whom survived infancy.
The same year he was married, Franklin entered New York’s Columbia University to study law. After passing the bar examination in 1907, he left school without taking a degree. Afterward, he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm for three years.
In 1910, he entered politics and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat in 1912. After supporting Woodrow Wilson’s candidacy, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913, a position he held until 1920. After doing well in this position, he was nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio. However, Cox lost to Republican Warren Harding and Roosevelt returned to private life.
While vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio and was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He then sought refuge at Springwood, where his strength slowly returned. After much rehabilitation and with the encouragement and help of his wife, Eleanor, and other leaders, he soon resumed his political career. In 1928, he was elected the governor of New York.
In the meantime, the Great Depression had begun and Roosevelt made bold efforts to combat it in New York, enhancing his reputation. He soon began to campaign for the presidency and in 1932, he won the nomination as the Democratic Party candidate for president. He campaigned energetically calling for government intervention in the economy to provide relief, recovery, and reform. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Herbert Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes. This would be the first of four terms in which Roosevelt would serve.
Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933. During the four months between Roosevelt’s election and his inauguration, the Depression worsened. By that time, there were 13,000,000 unemployed and almost every bank was closed. Of those that remained open, withdrawals were restricted. Farm income had fallen by over 50% and an estimated 844,000 non-farm mortgages had been foreclosed on. Industrial production had plummeted and the pace of factory closings accelerated. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War.
In his first “hundred days,” he proposed, and Congress enacted, his New Deal programs to alleviate the suffering of the nation’s huge number of unemployed workers, bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, change to the financial system, and other reforms to propel the nation out of its Depression. Within a very short time, banks reopened and direct relief saved millions of people from starvation.
The New Deal program was based on “socialistic” tendencies that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the Depression. Although public support was widespread, not everyone agreed with Roosevelt’s agenda, arguing that the federal government had no place spending millions on public works, going into debt, and regulating business and industry. Others thought that the New Deal did not go far enough and that the federal government should take over the banks and industry. Roosevelt responded with new programs of reform including Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
Roosevelt easily defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936 and went on to defeat by lesser margins, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. He thus became the only American president to serve more than two terms.
By 1939, World War II had broken out in Europe and Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. At this time, New Deal reform legislation diminished, though the ill effects of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war. In the early years of the war, the United States remained neutral, though aid was provided to Britain, France, and China. However, when France fell in 1940, Roosevelt’s policy changed dramatically and Congress enacted a draft for military service.
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, changed everything. The very next day, Congress declared war against Japan. Three days later Germany and Italy declared war against the United States; and Congress, voting unanimously, reciprocated. This brought the nation fully into the global struggle.
During the war, priority was given to the western European front and by April 1945 victory in Europe was certain. The war officially ended with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.
But, by that time President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be dead. The unending stress and strain of the war had literally worn him out.
In early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed that Roosevelt had serious heart and circulatory problems and he was placed on a strict regime of diet and medication. Roosevelt, a chain-smoker throughout his entire adult life, had been in declining physical health since at least 1940.
In March 1944, he underwent further testing and was found to have high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure. Hospital physicians, specialists and his own doctor ordered Roosevelt to rest and changes to his schedule were made to accommodate this. However, his declining physical health was kept secret and Roosevelt made it clear that he was seeking another term. When it was time for the 1944 Democratic National Convention and re-election campaign, his personal doctor declared that “The President’s health is perfectly OK. There are absolutely no organic difficulties at all.” When it came time for the election in November 1944, Roosevelt and his vice-presidential running mate, Harry S. Truman, won by a comfortable margin.
Within months of his election to a fourth term, Roosevelt was looking old, thin and frail. On March 29, 1945, he traveled to the Little White House, a personal retreat of his located in Warm Springs, Georgia. On the afternoon of April 12, Roosevelt said, “I have a terrific headache” before slumping forward in his chair, unconscious. He was then carried to his room and his attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive stroke. He died just two and one-half hours later without regaining consciousness. He was 63 years old and just three months into his fourth term.
His death was met with shock and grief across the United States and around the world. The next day, his body was placed in a flag-draped coffin and loaded onto the presidential train for the trip back to Washington, D.C. Along the route, thousands flocked to the tracks to pay their respects. After a White House funeral on April 14, Roosevelt was transported by train to his estate at Hyde Park, New York where he was buried in the Rose Garden on April 15.
Roosevelt’s son Elliott also claimed that his father had a 20-year affair with his private secretary, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand. Another son, James, stated that “there is a real possibility that a romantic relationship existed” between his father and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, who resided in the White House during part of World War II. At that time, aides referred to her as “the president’s girlfriend” and gossip linking the two romantically appeared in the newspapers.
The Springwood family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where Roosevelt was born and was buried, was given to the United States. Today, it is a National Historic Site, which remains largely unchanged since his death. The house is still full of his personality including his boyhood collection of stuffed birds.
By Kathy Weiser-Alexander, February 2019.
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1. Franklin and his fifth cousin Eleanor Roosevelt on their wedding day. March 17, 1905
2. Franklin Roosevelt with his mother Sara in 1887.
3. Franklin Roosevelt’s burial at his estate in Hyde Park, New York.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's long-time mistress Lucy Mercer, in about 1913 - she was Eleanor's press secretary until Eleanor discovered the affair
Background from {[https://www.legendsofamerica.com/president-franklin-roosevelt/]}
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was a Democratic statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.
Franklin Roosevelt was born on his family’s estate on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882, to businessman James Roosevelt and his second wife, Sara Delano Roosevelt. Both of his parents came from wealthy old New York families who were well-educated and prominent members of New York society. Franklin’s father purchased the 110-acre estate in 1867 and named it Springwood. Young Franklin would spend much of his life on the estate and would eventually be buried there. It is a National Historic Site today.
The only child from his father’s second marriage to Sara Delano, young Franklin was doted on by his mother and lived a privileged life. In addition to their estate in Hyde Park, the Roosevelts also had a house in New York City and summered on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada. As a young boy, Franklin made frequent trips to Europe and became fluent in German and French. As a youth, he learned to ride, shoot, row, and play polo, lawn tennis, and golf. He learned to sail and when he was just 16 years old and his father gave him a sailboat.
His parents and private tutors provided him with his early education, some of which took place in Germany at the age of nine. From 1896 to 1900, he attended Groton School, a prestigious preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts and afterward, received a BA degree in history from Harvard in 1903.
In the meantime, Franklin’s father died in 1900 and his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States in 1901. Theodore’s vigorous leadership style and ambitious reforms made him Franklin’s role model and hero.
On March 17, 1905, Franklin married his fifth cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, who he had been courting since 1902. Eleanor was the niece of Theodore Roosevelt and the pair had known each since childhood. The couple married in New York City and Eleanor’s uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt, stood in at the wedding for Eleanor’s deceased father. Franklin’s mother, Sara, who was very possessive of her son, fiercely resisted the marriage, because she thought Franklin was too young. However, she did not dislike Eleanor, and when the marriage took place in spite of her feelings, she invited the couple to live with her on the Springwood estate in Hyde Park. Sara also built a pair of townhouses in New York City, one for Franklin and Eleanor, and another next door, for herself. Franklin and Eleanor would eventually have six children, five of whom survived infancy.
The same year he was married, Franklin entered New York’s Columbia University to study law. After passing the bar examination in 1907, he left school without taking a degree. Afterward, he practiced law with a prominent New York City law firm for three years.
In 1910, he entered politics and was elected to the New York State Senate as a Democrat in 1912. After supporting Woodrow Wilson’s candidacy, he was appointed the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913, a position he held until 1920. After doing well in this position, he was nominated for vice-president by the Democratic Party in 1920 on a ticket headed by James M. Cox of Ohio. However, Cox lost to Republican Warren Harding and Roosevelt returned to private life.
While vacationing in New Brunswick, Canada in the summer of 1921, Roosevelt contracted polio and was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He then sought refuge at Springwood, where his strength slowly returned. After much rehabilitation and with the encouragement and help of his wife, Eleanor, and other leaders, he soon resumed his political career. In 1928, he was elected the governor of New York.
In the meantime, the Great Depression had begun and Roosevelt made bold efforts to combat it in New York, enhancing his reputation. He soon began to campaign for the presidency and in 1932, he won the nomination as the Democratic Party candidate for president. He campaigned energetically calling for government intervention in the economy to provide relief, recovery, and reform. His activist approach and personal charm helped to defeat Herbert Hoover in November 1932 by seven million votes. This would be the first of four terms in which Roosevelt would serve.
Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office on March 4, 1933. During the four months between Roosevelt’s election and his inauguration, the Depression worsened. By that time, there were 13,000,000 unemployed and almost every bank was closed. Of those that remained open, withdrawals were restricted. Farm income had fallen by over 50% and an estimated 844,000 non-farm mortgages had been foreclosed on. Industrial production had plummeted and the pace of factory closings accelerated. Roosevelt faced the greatest crisis in American history since the Civil War.
In his first “hundred days,” he proposed, and Congress enacted, his New Deal programs to alleviate the suffering of the nation’s huge number of unemployed workers, bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, change to the financial system, and other reforms to propel the nation out of its Depression. Within a very short time, banks reopened and direct relief saved millions of people from starvation.
The New Deal program was based on “socialistic” tendencies that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the Depression. Although public support was widespread, not everyone agreed with Roosevelt’s agenda, arguing that the federal government had no place spending millions on public works, going into debt, and regulating business and industry. Others thought that the New Deal did not go far enough and that the federal government should take over the banks and industry. Roosevelt responded with new programs of reform including Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.
Roosevelt easily defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936 and went on to defeat by lesser margins, Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. He thus became the only American president to serve more than two terms.
By 1939, World War II had broken out in Europe and Roosevelt was concentrating increasingly on foreign affairs. At this time, New Deal reform legislation diminished, though the ill effects of the Depression would not fully abate until the nation mobilized for war. In the early years of the war, the United States remained neutral, though aid was provided to Britain, France, and China. However, when France fell in 1940, Roosevelt’s policy changed dramatically and Congress enacted a draft for military service.
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, changed everything. The very next day, Congress declared war against Japan. Three days later Germany and Italy declared war against the United States; and Congress, voting unanimously, reciprocated. This brought the nation fully into the global struggle.
During the war, priority was given to the western European front and by April 1945 victory in Europe was certain. The war officially ended with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.
But, by that time President Franklin D. Roosevelt would be dead. The unending stress and strain of the war had literally worn him out.
In early 1944 a full medical examination disclosed that Roosevelt had serious heart and circulatory problems and he was placed on a strict regime of diet and medication. Roosevelt, a chain-smoker throughout his entire adult life, had been in declining physical health since at least 1940.
In March 1944, he underwent further testing and was found to have high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure. Hospital physicians, specialists and his own doctor ordered Roosevelt to rest and changes to his schedule were made to accommodate this. However, his declining physical health was kept secret and Roosevelt made it clear that he was seeking another term. When it was time for the 1944 Democratic National Convention and re-election campaign, his personal doctor declared that “The President’s health is perfectly OK. There are absolutely no organic difficulties at all.” When it came time for the election in November 1944, Roosevelt and his vice-presidential running mate, Harry S. Truman, won by a comfortable margin.
Within months of his election to a fourth term, Roosevelt was looking old, thin and frail. On March 29, 1945, he traveled to the Little White House, a personal retreat of his located in Warm Springs, Georgia. On the afternoon of April 12, Roosevelt said, “I have a terrific headache” before slumping forward in his chair, unconscious. He was then carried to his room and his attending cardiologist, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed the medical emergency as a massive stroke. He died just two and one-half hours later without regaining consciousness. He was 63 years old and just three months into his fourth term.
His death was met with shock and grief across the United States and around the world. The next day, his body was placed in a flag-draped coffin and loaded onto the presidential train for the trip back to Washington, D.C. Along the route, thousands flocked to the tracks to pay their respects. After a White House funeral on April 14, Roosevelt was transported by train to his estate at Hyde Park, New York where he was buried in the Rose Garden on April 15.
Roosevelt’s son Elliott also claimed that his father had a 20-year affair with his private secretary, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand. Another son, James, stated that “there is a real possibility that a romantic relationship existed” between his father and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, who resided in the White House during part of World War II. At that time, aides referred to her as “the president’s girlfriend” and gossip linking the two romantically appeared in the newspapers.
The Springwood family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where Roosevelt was born and was buried, was given to the United States. Today, it is a National Historic Site, which remains largely unchanged since his death. The house is still full of his personality including his boyhood collection of stuffed birds.
By Kathy Weiser-Alexander, February 2019.
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