Franklin D. Roosevelt BobbleHeads
FDR!
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park,in the Hudson River valley in upstate New York. His father, James Roosevelt (1828–1900), was a wealthy landowner and vice-president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway. The Roosevelt family (see Roosevelt family tree) had lived in New York for more than 200 years: Claes van Rosenvelt, originally from Haarlem in the Netherlands, arrived in New York (then called Nieuw Amsterdam) in about 1650. In 1788, Isaac Roosevelt was a member of the state convention in Poughkeepsie which voted to ratify the United States Constitution - a matter of great pride to his great-great-grandson.
Although a life-long Democrat, Roosevelt cast his first presidential vote for a Republican, his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, in 1904. In 1910 Roosevelt ran for the New York State Senate from the district around Hyde Park, which had not elected a Democrat since 1884.
When Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the U.S. was at the nadir of the worst depression in its history. A quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Farmers were in deep trouble as prices fell by 60%. Industrial production had fallen by more than half since 1929. In a country with limited government social services outside the cities, two million were homeless. The banking system had collapsed completely. Historians later categorized Roosevelt's program as relief, recovery and reform. Relief was urgently needed by tens of millions of unemployed. Recovery meant boosting the economy back to normal. Reform meant long-term fixes of what was wrong, especially with the financial and banking systems. [For details see New Deal article.] Roosevelt's series of radio speeches, known as Fireside Chats, presented his proposals to the American public. The informal chats not only reassured listeners but—unlike formal speeches—made it seem the President was in the room at fireside explaining the actions he was taking.
FDR, just one of many of the great US Presidents. These Presidents make very nice bobbleheads!
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