Roosevelt took office as United States President, America had been, since 1929, suffering in the bleak existence of the “Great Depression”. (1) The economic woes required desperate need of new transformation. During President Roosevelt’s first speech, he stated, “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will receive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. (FDR) He spoke of how the ethics of people being at a dramatic low, taxes being on the rise, the dramatic increase of employment as well as misdoings of government agencies resulting in the cause of the United States’ misfortunes. Roosevelt’s words transpired as if declaring war on the depression, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis— broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be
Roosevelt took office as United States President, America had been, since 1929, suffering in the bleak existence of the “Great Depression”. (1) The economic woes required desperate need of new transformation. During President Roosevelt’s first speech, he stated, “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will receive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. (FDR) He spoke of how the ethics of people being at a dramatic low, taxes being on the rise, the dramatic increase of employment as well as misdoings of government agencies resulting in the cause of the United States’ misfortunes. Roosevelt’s words transpired as if declaring war on the depression, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis— broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be