Brief Introduction To The Speaker:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) Roosevelt Became President In 1933.
The United States Was Then In The Grip Of A World-wide Business Depression.
Roosevelt Used His Powers To Create Jobs And To Help Those Who Needed Helps.
Many Of Roosevelt's Ideas Of Government Are Still Part Of The Law Of TheLand.
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President Hoover Mister Chief Justice, my Friends:
This Is A Day Of National Consecration, and I Am Certain That On This DayMy Fellow Americans Expect That On My Induction In The Presidency I WillAddress Them With A Candor And A Decision Which The Present Situation OfOur People ImpeIs. This Is Preeminently The Time To Speak The Truth, theWhole Truth, frankly And Boldly Nor Need We Shrink From Honestly FacingThe Conditions Facing Our Country Today This Great Nation Will Endure AsIt Has Endured, will Revive And Will Prosper So First Of All, let Me ExpressMy Firm Belief That The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself - Nameless, Unreasoning, un Justified Terror, which Paralyzes Needed Efforts To ConvertRetreat Into Advance. In Every Dark Hour Of Our National Life, a LeadershipOf Frankness And Vigor Has Met With That Understanding And Support Of ThePeople Themselves, which Is Essential To Victory And I Am Convinced ThatYou Will Again Give That Support To Leadership In These Critical Days.
In Such A Spirit On My Part And On Yours, we Face Our Common Difficulties.
They Concern, thank God, only Material Things. Values Have Shrunken ToFantastic Levels; Taxes Have Risen, our Ability To Pay Has Fallen, governmentOf All Kinds Is Faced By Serious CurtaiIment Of Income, the Means Of ExchangeAre Frozen In The Currents Of Trade; The Withered Leaves Of IndustrialEnterprise Lie On Every Side, farmers Find No Markets For Their Produce, And The Savings Of Many Years And Thousands Of Families Are Gone.
More Important, a Host Of Unemployed Citizens Face The Grim Problem OfExistence, and An Equal And Great Number Toil With Little Return. OnlyA Foolish Optimist Can Deny The Dark Realities Of The Moment.
And Yet, our Distress Comes From No Failure Of Substance, we Are StrickenBy No PlagUe Of Locusts. Compared With The Perils Which Our ForefathersConquered, because They Believed AndWere Not Afraid, we Have So Much To Be Thankful For Nature Surrounds UsWith Her Bounty And Human, efforts Have Multiplied It. Plenty Is At OurDoorstep, but A Generous Use Of It Languishes In The Very Sight Of TheSupply Primarily This Is Because The Rulers Of The Exchange Of Mankind'sGoods Have Failed, through Their Own Stubbornness And Their Own Incompetence,
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First Inaugural Address
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