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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Great Depression
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While programs like the CCC helped ease the immediate pain of the Depression, Roosevelt worked to effect more permanent changes on the economy. In May, Congress passed FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Act. The AAA provided subsidies to farmers who decreased the production of various commodities, which, the president hoped, would cause farm prices to rise. In June, Roosevelt sent Congress his National Industrial Recovery Act, which set fair-practice codes for business and industry, established minimum wages and maximum hours, and gave labor the guaranteed right to bargain collectively. The bill quickly became law.
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At the personal level, Roosevelt achieved his ambitions despite his physical handicap, perhaps even because of it: his illness and recovery gave him a determination to succeed. He was a man who threw himself into his work and achieved a high level of emotional reward from it. He pushed as far as he could go — sometimes, in the eyes of critics, too far — and demonstrably enjoyed exercising power. He had a remarkable wife who became a public figure in her own right. More socially aware than Franklin, she showed him areas of social deprivation that shocked him. She busied herself in doing good works, both during the Depression and during the war. In many ways, she was Franklin's "legs", visiting stricken communities and raising morale among the troops.
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Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address on March 4, 1933, he knew that the millions of Americans listening needed an infusion of hope. The Great Depression had battered the nation for more than three long and painful years, and the economic situation was desperate.
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When Franklin became president in 1932, Eleanor continued to work behind the scenes. She worked for coal miners and youth during the Great Depression. Eleanor worked for racial equality, and resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution when they would not allow Marian Anderson, a Black singer, use their facilities for a concert.
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Safely reelected, Roosevelt called for "lend-lease" aid to the anti-German allies. This aid, approved by Congress, greatly increased the flow of supplies to Britain. After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, lend-lease went to the Russians as well. See Lend-Lease.
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