He's our greatest president, as far as I'm concerned. While he wasn't perfect (no president is), he raised America from the depth of one of its darkest hours, fought the fat cats whose luxurious lifestyles came at the expense of ordinary people, and made America a place that looked forward, not backward. If we get a president half as good as him in my lifetime, I'll be satisfied.

@gfartzejolva4168

2 жыл бұрын

At the expense of other countries.

@starter47990

2 жыл бұрын

Our greatest President is Abraham Lincoln because he kept the Union from disintegration and freed the blacks. FDR is probably #2 because, even though he saved the world from Hitler, there would be no United States if not for Lincoln. FDR was indeed one of the most consequential human beings in history

@gfartzejolva4168

2 жыл бұрын

FDR is number two? What a pathetic country

@raldux9153

2 жыл бұрын

He literally made US citizens enemies of the state 😂😂

@glennredwine8700

2 жыл бұрын

@@raldux9153 How so?

Wow. A President criticizing Wall Street? I think this was the last time that ever happened, I'm glad we got it on tape.

@SiamHossain7

7 жыл бұрын

Not quite, Guitar Player. The press was mainly owned by Republicans during FDR's career. They always ripped through him.

@bradhirsch9349

6 жыл бұрын

Harry Truman continued Franklin Roosevelt's policies, and he was no friend of wall street or monied special interests. Wall Street hated Franklin Roosevelt with a passion.

@imjoey9817

6 жыл бұрын

Is that what this is I read it in class today and didn’t get anything out of it

@MA-vd3ln

5 жыл бұрын

Last time no JFK is the last president to have criticized the rich and powerful elite he was killed for speaking out

@MA-vd3ln

5 жыл бұрын

Hunter Vogl your man Obama was and still is on the crack

It's interesting to hear a man say there are 48 states. The technology to record video and audio existed before Alaska and Hawaii became states. Truly amazing in my opinion.

@SiamHossain7

7 жыл бұрын

Truly so.

@CT_Taylor

7 жыл бұрын

even before arizona became a state

@originalideas9617

7 жыл бұрын

a history of spreading freedom and civilization.

@macmacreynolds8712

7 жыл бұрын

+Taylor Arizona was a state by 1933. (It became a state in February, 1912.)

@johncronin9540

4 жыл бұрын

Something_to_appease_Google FDR became the first US President to visit Hawaii in 1934.

Fascinating: 1933, two countries in the same bad situation. One has no leader appearing and falls into darkness, another one has the fortune to find one. What impressive strong voice and words.

@yunleung2631

3 жыл бұрын

He’s the greatest president in us history bar Lincoln.

@NathanDav42

2 жыл бұрын

One had one of the greatest leaders in history. One had the single worst leader in history. Both took power within weeks of each other. Both died within weeks of each other. The terrible leader’s nation lay in utter ruin upon his death, carved into pieces and dismembered. Millions upon millions were dead. The terrible leader’s nation was partly destroyed by the great leadership of the other man, and as a result the great leader’s nation, at the time of his death, stood as the most powerful in human history.

@alejandrowaizel3750

2 жыл бұрын

@@NathanDav42 One is attracted to make the comparison between Hitler and Churchill, which is fundamental to understand the war and even the 20th century, but the comparison between FDR and the german not only is extraordinary and says a lot about the many kinds of leadership but also proves what people are capable of doing in a desperate situation and both Roosevelt and Hitler were extremely different paths.

@collectiveconsciousness5314

2 ай бұрын

@@NathanDav42 Simplistic narratives like this have little to no basis in reality. There were no "good guys" back then. Ever heard of the Versailles Treaty?

@fredrickdenga7552

6 сағат бұрын

The United States and Germany

“This nation is asking for action, and action now.” Goosebumps.

10:34 "There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it." Can't argue with that.

@Wald4267

4 ай бұрын

That is still true today

No president since FDR has achieved the same level of greatness since the man on the wheelchair led the United States of America through the greatest economic crisis and war humankind has ever known. ' Those Americans who believe in isolationism want the American eagle to follow the ways of the ostrich. We would like the keep the American eagle the way it is - flying high and striking hard.' -Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

@DiogenesOfDelaware

4 жыл бұрын

No matter whoever was the president during that time did not matter,. It was geographically positioned conveniently outside the realm of World War II & World War 1 where it would benefit thus rose out of the depression in the prosperous state the U.s did.

@luigimario4458

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiogenesOfDelaware Roosevelt was the best, most transformational president of the united states under the sun, *ever.*

@fleecejohnsonbandit

3 жыл бұрын

fdr married his cousin lol

@melissas4874

3 жыл бұрын

@@fleecejohnsonbandit So was Rudy Giuliani in his first marriage.

@fleecejohnsonbandit

3 жыл бұрын

@@melissas4874 Then he must burn in hell

Great lessons from FDR. Still relevant today. Especially now in 2020. Hard to believe this was almost 100 years ago. History does repeat itself if not exactly certainly rhymes.

@lawrenceporath1714

Жыл бұрын

The only thing we have to fear, is, fear itself, and that quote, did not, prevent World War Two, from happening, at all 🤔🤔😭😭

I like FDR's aristocratic accent.

@johncronin9540

4 жыл бұрын

Z Watkins That’s a Boston accent. FDR went to Groton, an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts, and then Harvard University. He and Jack Kennedy had very similar accents.

@InqvisitorMagnvs

4 жыл бұрын

@@johncronin9540 Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not speak with a "Boston accent"; while the accent shares some features like non-rhoticism, it's not John F. Kennedy's Irish Catholic Boston accent at all. It may be more compared to the now-extinct 'Boston Brahmin' accent of old money New England WASP Yankees, which is also a variant form of the Mid-Atlantic accent. FDR entirely lacks signature Boston accent traits such as fronting /ɑ/ to /a/ (e.g. "park" /pɑɹk/ becoming Boston [paːk] rhyming and almost homophonous with "pack"), nor Boston's cot-caught merger lowering /ɔ/ to /ɒ~ɑ/, so "caught" and "cot" are homophones-rhyming words like "lot", "loss", "law", "all", "off", "cot", "caught". FDR's Mid-Atlantic accent also preserved New Yorker 3-way Mary-marry-merry distinction, lost in Boston and General American. FDR spoke with a patrician New Yorker Mid-Atlantic accent, complete with non-rhoticism and falling diphthongs e.g. in "fear" [fɪə̯] (like British Received Pronunciation and New York City accents vs. rhotic General American [fɪəɹ]. Boston accent is more like [fɪ̯ɜ]). FDR grew up speaking this sort of English; people don't just change their native accents in their native language to a new accent in teenage/college years. FDR did not even start at Groton School until he was 14-years-old. And Groton is a small town on MA's northern border, not even near Boston. FDR did not go to Boston until he was a grown man at Harvard ('Hahvid' [havɪd] with fronted /a/ the way JFK would say it is NOT the way FDR would say it; like Received Pronunciation, FDR's Transatlantic accent would simply omit [r] and lengthen the backed vowel /ɑ/ to [hɑːvəd]). As a child of wealth and privilege, Roosevelt grew up between his family estate in Hyde Park, New York in the Hudson Valley just north of NYC metro, and traveling the world, from family summer cottage in Canada, to study time abroad in Europe where he learned to speak both French and German by the time he was 14. FDR already spoke fluent English in his native New York patrician Transatlantic accent long before he went to Massachusetts to study at Harvard. MA has a LOT of colleges and universities that attract students from all over the country; college students don't go to study in Mass. from New York (or Virginia or Texas or Minnesota or California, etc.) and come home with a Boston accent!

@johncronin9540

4 жыл бұрын

InqvisitorMagnvs First, I will defer to your expertise in terms of your linguistics knowledge. I don’t have that kind of background. However, I grew up and live in close proximity to both Boston and Groton, (I live in the Merrimack Valley, close to the New Hampshire border), and Groton is not as far from Boston as you think. I’ve been there many times. Perhaps I should have said a Harvard accent. I’d have to listen more extensively to FDR’s speeches to study the accent, but in his Inaugural Address when he uses the word fear, he uses two syllables, something common with New Englanders. (Here and there also are pronounced with two syllables). I should have made clear that FDR and JFK don’t have the exact same accent; certainly there is a lot of differences in where both were born (though many of the Kennedys also spent extensive time in Europe. So, in some ways similar, if not exactly the same, at least to my ear, though I claim no expertise. I can say that very little of Harvard is actually in the City of Boston, though Harvard Stadium is on the Boston side of the Charles. But the vast majority of Harvard University is located in Cambridge, which admittedly is just across the Charles River from Boston. But as for accents changing during prep school and university CAN happen. One example is C.S. Lewis. While not easy to find (I did hear part of a recording of his voice here on YT), Lewis was one of many British notables who did war-time broadcasting for the BBC, and he definitely had a strong British accent (I’m assuming it was “Received Pronunciation”). It certainly wasn’t the Ulster accent, which is where Lewis was born and raised, until he was sent to boarding school, where I am guessing that his instructors insisted that their students spoke “proper English”. And though Kennedy was born in Brookline (which is completely surrounded by Boston), he grew up in part there, but also in those Brahmin dominated preparatory schools, which did have an influence on his accent. A better example of a thick Boston accent would be Dave Powers, who was a close friend and aide during Kennedy’s entire political career. I believe Powers was a native of Charlestown, which was (and still is) part of the city of Boston. I can’t remember off the top of my head when that neighborhood became part of the city. I think part of the reason why Kennedy had the accent he did was precisely that his father, having been spurned by the Boston Brahmins you mentioned, was determined to force the blue bloods to accept his children as one of their own. JFK was not educated in Catholic schools, which was the case for many of Boston Irish, but to the same schools where the Boston Brahmins were educated. So Jack Kennedy had a regional accent, but not completely the same as other Irish Bostonians of his generation. With Bobby and Ted, the accent was even more unique than Jack’s, as they attended some schooling in Britain, when their father was serving as Ambassador. They use the same “a” that the British use with words like “ask” “dance”, not the more flattened (not sure if that word is accurate) “a” that Americans, including Jack Kennedy himself. Well, that’s my two cents. But I do thank you for your comment; it was fun and interesting to read. I was making a general observation, and not a precise examination of the intricacies of linguistics, though I thank you for that information. It’s a subject that has always interested me, though I have never mastered the symbols, and what exactly they represent. But I can say this. One of my grandmothers was a French Canadian native of Maine, which itself has a similar but distinct accent of its own, and she retained some of it all her 102 years, even though she lived most of her life in Massachusetts. She would often, for example, use “eyah” for “yes”. But to many from outsiders, the various accents sound similar. She often told of a story about a visit to her son, when he lived in Nashville Tennessee in the early 1960’s. One manager of a small convenience store remarked to her that she sounded just like President Kennedy.

@ce1834

3 жыл бұрын

The Transatlantic accent was common in upper society then

@cashchristian5413

3 жыл бұрын

If you got to speak truth to power, might as well speak thier language ;)

A rich man criticizing the rich elites... and meaning it? And doing something about it, no less? Donnie, you'd do well to learn...

@johncronin9540

4 жыл бұрын

The Ban Man Two very different individuals. As a young man, Roosevelt was often considered a lightweight, more like a George W Bush than Trump. But in 1921, FDR contracted polio, which paralyzed him, and also completely transformed him. Through his own suffering, which should not be minimized, he began to learn compassion for the suffering of others. It was a traumatic experience for him, but it made him a better human being, and a better President. Roosevelt spent between a third and half of his trust fund buying and transforming a run-down resort in Warm Springs, GA, into a top notch rehabilitation facility. The location was ideal, because the springs there were warmer than usual water (allowing patients to spend more time in the water), and the minerals in the water gave it greater buoyancy, thus helping polio patients more support from the water. Warm Springs helped many polio patients, and the facility is still open today, though the patients it treats suffer from other forms of paralysis or disability, as the discovery of a polio vaccine in the 1950’s has almost completely eradicated that dreaded disease. Somehow, I can’t quite picture Trump spending his money in this way.

@bsanchez3563

2 жыл бұрын

Wh the heck is donnie lol?-0.0 ohhh as in donald lmao facepalms

@SpaceGhost67

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary!

@Megadeaf75

Жыл бұрын

donnie the dumbfuck or dumbfuck donnie as i call him doesnt know shit from good chocolate. thank god hes done now.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

this is.... more relevant than ever.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of the greatest president in U.S history 👏🇺🇲🦅❤💪

@1JamesMayToGoPlease

3 ай бұрын

The Very greatest!

Top ten anime openings

@Perririri

5 жыл бұрын

Normie

@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158

5 жыл бұрын

Normie

@wandaperi

5 жыл бұрын

Normie

@DanubeHaq

4 жыл бұрын

Normie

My grandmother was only 9 days away from her 1st birthday. I can actually picture my grandfather listening to this along with his parents. I can picture my great-grandmother and great-grandfather listening to this along with my great-grandmother's mother. She was a staunch Roosevelt supporter despite being a registered Republican.

The oldest Inauguration ever recorded on video!

@estelladicaprio7825

3 жыл бұрын

And the oldest comment ever posted.

@rwhoosh1122

3 жыл бұрын

@@estelladicaprio7825 💀

@LPP8189

3 жыл бұрын

No There is Footage of William McKinley's 1897 Inaguration has Well

@kevinmccabe3984

2 жыл бұрын

There’s video and audio of Hoover’s

FDR was a REAL president.. No modern American president comes close.. No Clinton, Obama, Bush, etc.. One of the top 5 best presidents. Leadership we need today..] next to only Washington, and maybe Lincoln.

@hammerhead2362

5 жыл бұрын

doglover4100 maybe Lincoln? Please! Lincoln is number one!

@AtmaureanNoble7

5 жыл бұрын

FDR sold ya'll out. Its all going to expose itself in the coming years.

@abcd123906

5 жыл бұрын

doglover4100 Totally agree

@johnnymcclees9933

4 жыл бұрын

@@AtmaureanNoble7 FDR is a huge reason why we're even here today. You owe him a lot.

@kayhallema2136

4 жыл бұрын

i only hope that washington's presidential job went better than his job as a general. because i heard he sucked at that one.

Amazing how we are able to see the man who was President of the United States almost 100 years ago. A luxury we take for granted.

Thank You #CSPAN because you shared the President Videos with us. 90 Years ago all videos about the President lived and were available.

He had so much class.

"All you have to fear is fear it's fear itself." President Franklin D. Roosevelt on it's First 1933 Inaugural Address

Wow. This is over 90 years old. Rip FDR. One of the best presidents in United States history. My father was born in 1941. Shortly after FDR started his third term. My grandparents were 6 and 4 years old in 1933. Thanks for posting this.

80 years ago today. Legendary.

@akmalharis4273

Жыл бұрын

90 years ago

Got re-elected three times, won WW2, and not even Reagan dared undo most of his achievements. Best President of the last century, hands down.

@abcd123906

5 жыл бұрын

jdnewick Amen!

Best president of all time. Hands down. No argument. He did so much

@hammerhead2362

5 жыл бұрын

ZaNe Blazze meh. He’s top 3 for sure. Washington prevented our democracy from turning into a royalty in all but name. Lincoln saves our union and managed the reckoning of the nations founding sin, that it failed to live up to its own ideals that all men were created equal. By winning the war he achieved both goals and gave his life,. And he did all his while his wife deteriorated to insanity and his son died as a child. And FDR saved us from a seemingly perpetual depression and changed the meaning of what we ought to owe each other as a society, a social security net indicative of our love and care for our fellow citizens. They are all great

i think it's about time we elect another honest president into office #FeelTheBern

@scottstevens8638

8 жыл бұрын

+zepps88 good luck with that...

@diapersFTMFW11

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you pretty much failed. It's up to Trump now.

@zepps88

8 жыл бұрын

Ronald Reagan I said honest, not full of shit

@RONALDB62

7 жыл бұрын

its Trump

@meesohhoenee5205

7 жыл бұрын

+Ronald Reagan *Bernie is even older than you were after you got shot by Hinkley and became a vegetable, you old fart.*

As a CAnadian, FDR did more for Canadian-American relations than almost any other President. He did the little things, which is why we love him. He visited our country, he met with our Prime Minister and was friends with him, he opened markets to us and we opened ours to him; this was a good President. And what a godly voice!

2:52 for those of you who want to hear the only thing we have to fear

@justisolated5621

Жыл бұрын

I want to hear no where not halfway done

I believe this is the first inauguration to be filmed with synchronized sound.

@EpicSamYT

6 жыл бұрын

This is gay it doesn’t even sound like him

@gibberish1014

5 жыл бұрын

He was President for 12 years.. So must of sounded younger.

@LinkRocks

5 жыл бұрын

@@EpicSamYT LOL it is him weirdo.

@johncronin9540

4 жыл бұрын

Scriptfully It was filmed and recorded over 80 years ago! The film could use some restoration, but it’s in remarkable shape, considering the state of technology at that time.

He was indeed a very important man to remember. Sure he had his flaws. But he also, showed us we could do anything we set out to do. He helped the English and France, and the rest of Europe drive back the Nazis when no one else would. When the Japanese empire bombed Pearl Harbor, he showed them they were not invincible. He founded the UN. He showed Capitalism doesn't work without limits. And he even rescued the USA from the worst economic crisis in the world.

@apove1814

2 жыл бұрын

"Without limits". And that's why our country is failing right now. These oligarch monopolies. They scare you with socialism but never mention red scare. When you see red scare socialism, it looks identical to the capitalism In America today, I don't care what you call it communism, socialism (which it isn't )- when you get an oligarchy, suffering is assured. So they call any ideas , of any real, moral virtue, "socialist!"

BEST president we've ever had, and I wasn't even alive back then! But my grandma (a hardcore Republican) was just 3 years old when the Great Depression started, she said when FDR was president, he was the best president. And for my very conservative grandma to say that is a lot!

@apove1814

2 жыл бұрын

He'd be called a socialist RINO today.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." FDR

I love the Roosevelt's. They both scream iconic pictures of this nation's history along with other figures in politics like Jefferson and Lincoln along with cultural figures such as Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and even Thomas Paine.

@SiamHossain7

7 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Both TR and FDR were masterful in their careers and colourful in their own sense.

@abcd123906

5 жыл бұрын

Ian Hnizdo 1000% agree. I get goosebumps every time I listen to FDR. A great, great man.

He's just simply the best ever.

He is my hero

The technology of sound recording with film was breakthrough here!!! Very cool!!

Studying recent history, I would call Roosevelt the greatest. U.S. President. The Soviet Union sympathized with the democratic President D. F. Kennedy and his tragedies . But studying history now I see a man more worthy of being called great. My opinion. On the basis of history. Respect and respect !

FDR possibly one of our most successful presidents in history. His banking changes, his agricultural approach to conservation, imposed during the dust bowls days. His use of men without work to build roads, schools, and many other projects. These programs are still in use today. I realize he was beginning his fourth term in accomplishing so much. world war 2 was a the result of pearl harbor , war with germany and japan and other axis powers. He is well remembered.

One of the best presidents this great nation has ever had, my hat is off to him.

Now that is a speech.

Greatest President ; to overcome the Great Depression (even though it ultimately ended with WW2) has to be the greatest feat of any individual man of power. He gave hope to a starving, desperate nation, and that could of been no easy task. I've read his speech over and over again, and I can only imagine how powerful it must of felt to the people who were actually there. He knew his stuff.

Wow! I didn't think they had this much footage of inaugurations back then! The audio was recorded directly to 78RPM disk(s).

Best inauguration speech I have ever heard. Unity achieves and discipline with moral outlook.

This was back when we were a proud and powerful nation, when we were respected, our government was respected, and nobody would dream of doing anything. Long gone, those days.

@jonalderson5571

3 жыл бұрын

You think we were proud and powerful in 1932?

@apove1814

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonalderson5571 Yes. The English don't shut up about how long it took for us to show up. We were respected. We were looked at as powerful. And we rose even more, afterward. Furthermore, we rose after a depression.

@jonalderson5571

2 жыл бұрын

@@apove1814 The US was on the brink of collapse in 1932

@Megadeaf75

Жыл бұрын

the country just got shit whipped, the depression just started, japan and germany were wreaking havok. the world was on the brink of war. learn stuff dude this is all in the context of the speech. the super rich were living it up as the rest of us spent nights in hooverville in central park,

@skyhop

Жыл бұрын

@@Megadeaf75 That comment was from 13 years ago, you realize...?

Was president during the 20th century’s toughest time, and he handled it amazingly!

tingles down my spine--- great man

I didn't even know they had video of him back then, that's great.

@bil11lco

Жыл бұрын

This is newsreel film release and out-takes which I had the honor to help the Franklin D.Roosevelt Library piece back together so we could have the entire speech available on film. He was a superb orator.

My favorite quote of all time, nothing to fear but fear itself. I wasn't even pooping green till 65 years later, after this mans death, but I really love this mans quote. De-escalation on both sides of fear are the key. Not everyone is going to be that person. From women to men to children to elderly. Take it down a notch and realize your own fears, as well as others, escalate things. At the expense of everyone around you. One has options here to take away that fear. Talk openly, or build an army and weapons to alleviate your fears.

We need a president like this again!

That was a really, really inspiring speech.

The nation probably never expected that they were to have one of the greatest Presidents they would ever have, for more than 12 years, when they listened to this on the radio or saw it on the streets...

I miss the days when you didn't have to end a speech with "God Bless America" That gets old fast.

@waytoobiased

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Joe McCarthy.

@jimslickens2325

2 жыл бұрын

What point are you even trying to make? You realise that the last three lines of this are a prayer, right. "In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come." Is it just that he didn't say the exact same prayer, but a differently worded restating of the exact same thing, with the same reference to God? Is that what you're trying to say? That the religious devotions today aren't originally worded enough?

A man of destiny - a child of the rich who became the voice of the common people. Endlessly couragous in the face of paralysis, opposition, war and death. He was the catalyst for creating a new kind of government. This man is my hero. God bless FDR.

My great grandfather was 8 years of age when FDR took oaths

The quality is low (as expected for that time) but it would disastrous for me not to favorite this, as it is simply a milestone in American history, if not in world history. FDR was the longest serving President, and he shall never be surpassed in that. Seeing this right while we're facing another economic depression makes it even more relevant.

We have two more states today, but everything he says here is just as contextual today as it was then. Let's hope we don't plunge into world war again. Ironically, nobody saw WWII coming when he gave this speech.

With out a question FDR is in the top 3 greatest Presidents of the United States Of America no one can denies that.

@RealityChecker77 Small businesses were already wiped out by the bank crises and the Great Depression. Those "worthless" jobs actually provided a needed safety net for millions of people and gave them a sense of worth. My grandfather was part of the CCC for a few years and he always spoke fondly of it.

Best US president ever. Nothing more needs to be said.

I can imagine my grandparents listening to this on the radio when they were small children.

Roosevelt's Second Term. There was an amendment to make the Inauguration in January.

This speech was held four score and seven years ago. Just a little coincidence I'd like to point out.

The speech is still relevant today, almost point for point.

Inspiring call for action that gave a despairing nation confidence in the midst of a financial meltdown.

One of the top 5 Presidents.

at about 4:17 everyone puts on their hats

Thx for sharing this. We need this msg right now in this present day. Big time.

Back when presidents mentioned policy during their inauguration speech.

Thanks this is the first time I heard FDR's oath taking

He memorized by heart.

He got us out of a bigger jam than we are now yeah, back when we had money to spend.

Who has to say this speech in front of the class

the good old days

that is why he is my favorite

thanks for putting this video on youtube. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Best President Of The United States

This is the COMPLETE SPEECH! Very Important I do not know why someone would want to listen to half of a speech or 30 seconds of one. Good Upload Hyena

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

@joelbusald6416

5 жыл бұрын

And trumpism

THIS is 'PURE' Vintage !!!!!!!

Excellent quality for 1933. Good to see.

Can you imagine a president speaking with that kind of an accent now? It's amazing.

He a was good president🙏

@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158

5 жыл бұрын

Thomas Paine bernie2020bernie2020bernie2020

@abcd123906

5 жыл бұрын

Dj Rickey Ricardo That’s a gigantic understatement 😂 he was easily one of the best

I absolutely love the hatred, despair, frustration felt by the enemies of Franklin Roosevelt. It was the only revenge an unemployed American could extract from a vicious system that nearly brought down a great nation. Now, go ahead and tell me FDR was a Stalinist agent and Eleanor was an extra terrestrial. I hate politicians; I admire FDR.

Just a few points. A basic rule of economics (old school style) is you can't plow a field with a tank. You can't even make another tank. The best you can manage is to sell the tank. If you want to create long term growth you need to produce goods that can actually be used by people to improve future production (a drill press) or to make their lives/work easier (a car to shorten commutes). The post WW2 production boom ended the depression. The war provided a temporary respite only.

A great man.

Second Bill of Rights if only he had lived a few more years...

Thank God!

Unlike other president's who've made speeches like this, FDR actually backed up what he said and was smart enough to gain the American people's trust and respect.

I'm doing a project on him and I need to research his adulthood. Anyone know any good websites? ;P

@yoh2525

7 жыл бұрын

Laura Mccarthy This probably isn't much help, but perhaps a biography from a library would help.

Overthrow this banking system.

Where did you get your quote "the modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercices in moral philosphy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"? I'm assuming you found it somewhere.

FDR was a great president who had the guts to kick ass. He fixed America and took it from The Great Depression to the biggest world power that won WWII. It is too bad that he did not live to see that victory. We need an FDR today. George Vreeland Hill

FDR 535 electoral votes Trump 0!!

@fundude4566

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Hietala 538 actually

@macmacreynolds8712

7 жыл бұрын

FDR only got that many electoral votes in 1936, when he carried 46 out of 48 states (including all of the states outside of New England).

Expert economist belive that FDR extending the great depression by several years.

I'm not a huge history buff, but FDR is, and always will be one of the greatest presidents of the United States. Those people who think he was to close to a monarch should shut up! We would be in a bad way now without him then.

The description still says it was January 20th 1933. The writing on the screen shows the correct date: March 4th 1933.

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At the time of this inauguration, the Supreme Court Justices, were, in descending order, Justices Benjamin Cardozo (who apparently swore in all ten members of the Roosevelt Cabinet), Owen Roberts, Harlan Stone (a future Chief Justice), Pierce Butler (who kind of resembled Warren Harding, who appointed him; both were Midwesterners), George Sutherland, Louis Brandeis, James McReynolds (the most boorish and disagreeable Justice of all time), Willis Van Devanter, and Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes.

The video and comments are intersting to look at considering this man will very likely come up in my history exam soon, respect from Wales:)

I find it funny how FDR is usually rated as one of the best Presidents the country ever had, but in the past decade or so he's usually flipped around as being one of the worst by the uber-right in America (I consider myself a conservative by the way). I guess for the libertarians, he was the farthest thing from Libertarian a President could be, but I think to call him the worst President of all time is more than a bit of an exaggeration. I guess being call overrated usually comes with the territory of being ranked in the top of anything.

@victoriaduffy7666

9 жыл бұрын

Godzilla52 booo conservative

@Godzilla52

9 жыл бұрын

Victoria Duffy I think the Conservatives in my country are a bit more moderate than the ones in America now. The old-school Republican/Conservatives. (Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower etc.) were great, but Reagan onward, the party moved away from the center-right and became more of a Neo/social-conservative party.

@glassoul

9 жыл бұрын

Godzilla52 I haven't heard any serious debate about FDR being the worst president ever. For 50 years, any criticism of him was deeply controversial because for half the country is the founder of their modern political party and WWII completely insulated him - even many people on the right wouldn't because of the latter. I think the last 10-15 years has afforded a bit more of a critical look on his presidency, particularly his economic policies and substantial expansion of presidential power at the expense of congress, exceeding the precedent of serving 2 terms, and other criticisms.

@SiamHossain7

7 жыл бұрын

Being a complete middle-of-the-river supporter myself, neither liberal nor conservative, I would agree undeniably with your final statement. But, as is with all things, the victors write history. Who knows how FDR might be viewed from a decade or even a century from now on?

@dealerovski82

6 жыл бұрын

As most democrats he did not care to help other countries during war. He did nothing during the WWII and Hitler raise.