6.3: Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)

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6.3 Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933)
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Abstract

Franklin Delano Roosevelt came from a wealthy, politically connected New York family. His distant cousin, Theodore, had been the president just after the turn of the century. Theodore was a Republican descended from the party of Abraham Lincoln. By the early 1900s, however, the Republican Party in general had moved towards becoming a more socially conservative party that embraced laissez faire economics. (Theodore would eventually break with the party and run for the president a second time, in 1912, as a progressive, in a party he called the Bull Moose Party.)

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