FDR Fact File
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- Created on: 16-11-19 19:15
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- FDR
- Qualities
- Only disabled person to become President
- Got Polio in 1921 and could only walk with leg irons
- Had been the governor of NY in 1928 until he was president so had first-hand experience with the effects of the Depression
- Part of the Democratic Party
- Self- confident
- Only disabled person to become President
- Presidency
- USA was facing economic crisis when he came into office
- Only President to be elected for 4 terms
- Promised a "new deal" in his acceptance speech
- New Deal aimed at relief, recovery and reform
- Relief for the poor and unemployed
- Recovery of the economy
- Reform the economic system
- New Deal aimed at relief, recovery and reform
- Won 22.8 million votes in election compared to Hoover's 15/8 million
- Received support from trade unions. manufacturing workers, Catholics, Jews, Whites of the Old South
- Outlined his plan in his inauguration speech
- "Only fear is fear itself "
- Qualities
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