Franklin Roosevelt
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Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression,
Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people
regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous
action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the
only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Born in 188 ....
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.... the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the
1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically
appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928
Roosevelt became Governor of New
York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March
there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and
almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and
Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring
recovery to busi ....
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