Franklin D. Roosevelt's conduct between 1933 and 1935 could best be described as that of the?
Definitely not C/ radical socialist, D/ rigid doctrinaire or E/ liberal democrat. Although FDR is often remembered as the ultimate big government liberal, he really wasn't very ideological, and was skeptical about big government spending. In the election he had criticized Herbert Hoover for doing TOO MUCH to involve the government in the economy. But Roosevelt realized that he had to show the people that something was being done, so he experimented with various jobs programs and other reforms. Really, the level of government intervention wasn't enough to have an enormous impact, and the economy largely recovered on its own. His most important role during this period was that of reassuring patriarch, giving the people the confidence they needed during extremely difficult times.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover?
First, you have to remember that 'liberal' and 'conservative' mean much different things today than they did in 1932, when FDR beat Hoover for the Presidency. In terms of what they meant then, and much of what they mean now, they are valid characteristics. After the stock market crash of 1929, Hoover took a hand-off attitude and assumed that American businesses would eventually recover. He did not see it as the role of government to step and save business from the damage it had done to itself. FDR, on the other hand, saw that the nation and its people needed government's help to recover, and implemented hundreds of programs to help people find work. He also implemented programs to keep an eye on business (the Securities and Exchange Commission, for example), to make sure that banks never closed again, to safeguard people's bank deposits (the FDIC), and to help people who lost everything they had just before they were to retire (Social Security.) FDR was for a big government that used its collective power to help people in need and spread the wealth of the nation. Hoover was for a small government that let business and individuals take care of their own problems. These are still the stereotypical definitions of the liberal and a conservative.
What are some quotes Franklin Delano Roosevelt said himself?
“If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country” - Franklin D. Roosevelt “The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's eye color?
does it matter?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1936 presidential election because..?
(C). He carried all but two states. He won by one of the biggest landslides in U.S. history. His opponent, Alf Landon, had a platform but we were in the 8th year of the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal policies were popular with the voters. Also, the voters blamed the Republicans for the Depression, so it may have been a time that no Republican could have won. In fact, a Republican did not win the presidency again until 1952. It sure wasn't voter apathy. There was a huge turnout.
Was Franklin D. Roosevelt a conservative Democrat?
FDR rode to victory on an unabashedly socialist agenda. Social Security was just part of it. He proposed what we now call a Federal Job Guarantee when he created the WPA and other agencies across the country to “put America back to work.” He preached what the centrists today call “class warfare”—he railed against what he called the “economic royalists” (and what Bernie Sanders calls the “billionaire class”). In 1936, as he accepted the Party’s nomination (again), he said:We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.FDR proposed what he called a Second Bill of Rights, also known as the Economic Bill of Rights, which sought to guarantee to all people free healthcare, a living wage, a retirement with dignity.Obviously, Bernie echos these sentiments. When he said that the CEO of Goldman Sachs was right to call him dangerous, because “I am dangerous to Wall Street”, he was channeling FDR.If you think that Bernie is too extreme in his revival of the FDR agenda, remember this: FDR was elected and re-elected four times. The American people kept electing him until he died in office. The reason Presidents today have term limits is because the Republicans feared another FDR.And guess what—they finally do have another FDR to fear, and his name is Bernie Sanders.
Was Franklin Pierce a liberal president?
there can be no answer to this question. Liberal in the political sense would have no meaning at the time he was president.
Was Theodore Roosevelt the last great President?
I've always thought FDR was a little over-rated but he was a great president like it or not. Even though I think George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were our greatest presidents, I put FDR's cousin, Teddy, at #3 and he is easily my personal favorite. He was not a conservative, he was a liberal republican. Unlike today's conservatives he did not believe in deregulation of Big Business and was known as a "trust buster." Since he was the one who set up all the national park lands and refuges, he would be VEHEMENTLY opposed to drilling for oil in the rockies or in the Alaskan refuge. As for GWB and Clinton, neither are worth a damn to me. Clinton failed to get Osama while in office and then after the 9/11 attacks GWB promised to bring Osama and Al Qaeda to justice. Instead he wasted resources on a war in Iraq chasing an adversary who was NOT as big a threat to the USA as Osama was. Not only has GWB failed to live up to his promise, but Al Qaeda has grown stronger as a result of the Iraq War. America has never had a president, or indeed a celebrity of any kind, who embodied the phrase "carpe diem" (seize the day) quite like Theodore Roosevelt. Neither Clinton or GWB deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with him. BULLY!