Franklin D. Roosevelt
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, thirty-second President of the United Sates,
greatly expanded the role of the federal government with a wide-ranging
economic and social program, the New Deal, designed to counter the Great
Depression of the 1930s. He also led the nation through most of its
participation in the global struggle o ....
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.... for New York governor by, then governor and Democratic
nominee for president. He won that election and in 1932 he won the party's
presidential nomination. Despite his opponents claiming that he was
physically and mentally unfit for the presidency, he flew to Chicago and
pledged to the people at the Democratic National Convention, a New Deal.
That expression, a symbol of an era in American history, represented a
cluster of ideas formulated by the candidate and his Brain Trust, a group
of ad ....
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