LAD #33: FDR's First Inaugural Address

On March 4^th, 1933, former New York governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his inaugural address. First off, he says that the nation will be revived and flourish once again. This speech is also where he spoke the famous line of “the one thing we have to fear is fear itself.” With the support of the American people he believed America as a nation could achieve anything it wanted. Roosevelt discusses the issues of the rising taxes and the inability to pay them. He also understood the hardship that the farmers were facing; they could not find markets to sell the produce too and therefore they were very poor. Farmers were not the only poor ones. Many people were unemployed; FDR’s goal was to get people back to work. With the help of communication and transportation, people could return to work in the industrial growing cities. Besides the domestic problems, FDR also talked about the foreign policy. He wanted America to be seen as a “good neighbor” just like how it was with Teddy Roosevelt. FDR closes by saying that his main job is to listen to what the people have to say.