He declared a nationwide banking holiday, March 6-10, as a prelude to opening the banks on a sounder basis and he summoned Congress into special session to cope with national emergency.On Inauguration Day, March 4, 1933, Roosevelt provided Americans with inspirational hope.With Washington deadlocked, the American economic machine clanked to a virtual halt one worker in four tramped the streets, banks were locking their doors all over the nationįDR and the Three R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform.The preinauguration lame duck period ground slowly to an end and Hoover was still president until up to March 4, 1933-tried to hold meetings with Roosevelt to discuss war-debt muddle.Hard times unquestionably ruined the Republicans an overwhelming majority voiced a demand for a new deal-any upstanding Democratic candidate probably could have won.One striking feature of the election was the beginning of a distinct shift of blacks, traditionally grateful to the Republican party of Lincoln, over to the Roosevelt camp (worst sufferers) and by the election of 1932, they became a vital element in the Democratic party (cities in North).Herbert Hoover remained in the White House battling the depression advocating “Prosperity Is Just Around the Corner,” “The Worst Is Past,” and “It Might Have Been Worse”.The high spirits of the Democrats found expression in “Happy Days Are Here Again”.The “Brains Trust,” a small group of reform-minded intellectuals, who were predominantly college professors authored much of the later New Deal legislation, wrote many of his speeches.Roosevelt seized the offensive with an attack on the Republican Old Dealers-consistently preached a New Deal for the “forgotten man,” but was annoyingly vague and contradictory.Democrats nominated Roosevelt in 1932 and the Democratic platform for repeal of prohibition, assailed Hoover depression, and promised a balanced budget, social and economic reforms.Franklin Roosevelt’s political appeal was amazing-his commanding presence, golden speaking voice, belief that money, rather than humanity, was expendable he revealed a deep concern for the plight of the “forgotten man” and was assailed by the rich as a “traitor to his class”.Always she battled for the impoverished and the oppressed-infidelity between husband/wife.FDR’s political career was as much hers as it was his own she was to become the most active First Lady in history-she powerfully influenced the policies of the national government.Franklin Roosevelt’s courageous fighting from polio schooled him in patience, tolerance, compassion, and strength of will-Roosevelt’s personal and political asset was his wife, Eleanor.
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