Not quite, Guitar Player. The press was mainly owned by Republicans during FDR's career. They always ripped through him.

Harry Truman continued Franklin Roosevelt's policies, and he was no friend of wall street or monied special interests. Wall Street hated Franklin Roosevelt with a passion.

Is that what this is I read it in class today and didn’t get anything out of it

Last time no JFK is the last president to have criticized the rich and powerful elite he was killed for speaking out

Hunter Vogl your man Obama was and still is on the crack

Truly so.

even before arizona became a state

a history of spreading freedom and civilization.

+Taylor Arizona was a state by 1933. (It became a state in February, 1912.)

Something_to_appease_Google FDR became the first US President to visit Hawaii in 1934.

At the expense of other countries.

Our greatest President is Abraham Lincoln because he kept the Union from disintegration and freed the blacks. FDR is probably #2 because, even though he saved the world from Hitler, there would be no United States if not for Lincoln. FDR was indeed one of the most consequential human beings in history

FDR is number two? What a pathetic country

He literally made US citizens enemies of the state 😂😂

@@raldux9153 How so?

He’s the greatest president in us history bar Lincoln.

One had one of the greatest leaders in history. One had the single worst leader in history. Both took power within weeks of each other. Both died within weeks of each other. The terrible leader’s nation lay in utter ruin upon his death, carved into pieces and dismembered. Millions upon millions were dead. The terrible leader’s nation was partly destroyed by the great leadership of the other man, and as a result the great leader’s nation, at the time of his death, stood as the most powerful in human history.

@@NathanDav42 One is attracted to make the comparison between Hitler and Churchill, which is fundamental to understand the war and even the 20th century, but the comparison between FDR and the german not only is extraordinary and says a lot about the many kinds of leadership but also proves what people are capable of doing in a desperate situation and both Roosevelt and Hitler were extremely different paths.

@@NathanDav42 Simplistic narratives like this have little to no basis in reality. There were no "good guys" back then. Ever heard of the Versailles Treaty?

The only thing we have to fear, is, fear itself, and that quote, did not, prevent World War Two, from happening, at all 🤔🤔😭😭

That is still true today

No matter whoever was the president during that time did not matter,. It was geographically positioned conveniently outside the realm of World War II & World War 1 where it would benefit thus rose out of the depression in the prosperous state the U.s did.

@@DiogenesOfDelaware Roosevelt was the best, most transformational president of the united states under the sun, *ever.*

fdr married his cousin lol

@@fleecejohnsonbandit So was Rudy Giuliani in his first marriage.

@@melissas4874 Then he must burn in hell

Z Watkins That’s a Boston accent. FDR went to Groton, an elite preparatory school in Massachusetts, and then Harvard University. He and Jack Kennedy had very similar accents.

@@johncronin9540 Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not speak with a "Boston accent"; while the accent shares some features like non-rhoticism, it's not John F. Kennedy's Irish Catholic Boston accent at all. It may be more compared to the now-extinct 'Boston Brahmin' accent of old money New England WASP Yankees, which is also a variant form of the Mid-Atlantic accent. FDR entirely lacks signature Boston accent traits such as fronting /ɑ/ to /a/ (e.g. "park" /pɑɹk/ becoming Boston [paːk] rhyming and almost homophonous with "pack"), nor Boston's cot-caught merger lowering /ɔ/ to /ɒ~ɑ/, so "caught" and "cot" are homophones-rhyming words like "lot", "loss", "law", "all", "off", "cot", "caught". FDR's Mid-Atlantic accent also preserved New Yorker 3-way Mary-marry-merry distinction, lost in Boston and General American. FDR spoke with a patrician New Yorker Mid-Atlantic accent, complete with non-rhoticism and falling diphthongs e.g. in "fear" [fɪə̯] (like British Received Pronunciation and New York City accents vs. rhotic General American [fɪəɹ]. Boston accent is more like [fɪ̯ɜ]). FDR grew up speaking this sort of English; people don't just change their native accents in their native language to a new accent in teenage/college years. FDR did not even start at Groton School until he was 14-years-old. And Groton is a small town on MA's northern border, not even near Boston. FDR did not go to Boston until he was a grown man at Harvard ('Hahvid' [havɪd] with fronted /a/ the way JFK would say it is NOT the way FDR would say it; like Received Pronunciation, FDR's Transatlantic accent would simply omit [r] and lengthen the backed vowel /ɑ/ to [hɑːvəd]). As a child of wealth and privilege, Roosevelt grew up between his family estate in Hyde Park, New York in the Hudson Valley just north of NYC metro, and traveling the world, from family summer cottage in Canada, to study time abroad in Europe where he learned to speak both French and German by the time he was 14. FDR already spoke fluent English in his native New York patrician Transatlantic accent long before he went to Massachusetts to study at Harvard. MA has a LOT of colleges and universities that attract students from all over the country; college students don't go to study in Mass. from New York (or Virginia or Texas or Minnesota or California, etc.) and come home with a Boston accent!

InqvisitorMagnvs First, I will defer to your expertise in terms of your linguistics knowledge. I don’t have that kind of background. However, I grew up and live in close proximity to both Boston and Groton, (I live in the Merrimack Valley, close to the New Hampshire border), and Groton is not as far from Boston as you think. I’ve been there many times. Perhaps I should have said a Harvard accent. I’d have to listen more extensively to FDR’s speeches to study the accent, but in his Inaugural Address when he uses the word fear, he uses two syllables, something common with New Englanders. (Here and there also are pronounced with two syllables). I should have made clear that FDR and JFK don’t have the exact same accent; certainly there is a lot of differences in where both were born (though many of the Kennedys also spent extensive time in Europe. So, in some ways similar, if not exactly the same, at least to my ear, though I claim no expertise. I can say that very little of Harvard is actually in the City of Boston, though Harvard Stadium is on the Boston side of the Charles. But the vast majority of Harvard University is located in Cambridge, which admittedly is just across the Charles River from Boston. But as for accents changing during prep school and university CAN happen. One example is C.S. Lewis. While not easy to find (I did hear part of a recording of his voice here on YT), Lewis was one of many British notables who did war-time broadcasting for the BBC, and he definitely had a strong British accent (I’m assuming it was “Received Pronunciation”). It certainly wasn’t the Ulster accent, which is where Lewis was born and raised, until he was sent to boarding school, where I am guessing that his instructors insisted that their students spoke “proper English”. And though Kennedy was born in Brookline (which is completely surrounded by Boston), he grew up in part there, but also in those Brahmin dominated preparatory schools, which did have an influence on his accent. A better example of a thick Boston accent would be Dave Powers, who was a close friend and aide during Kennedy’s entire political career. I believe Powers was a native of Charlestown, which was (and still is) part of the city of Boston. I can’t remember off the top of my head when that neighborhood became part of the city. I think part of the reason why Kennedy had the accent he did was precisely that his father, having been spurned by the Boston Brahmins you mentioned, was determined to force the blue bloods to accept his children as one of their own. JFK was not educated in Catholic schools, which was the case for many of Boston Irish, but to the same schools where the Boston Brahmins were educated. So Jack Kennedy had a regional accent, but not completely the same as other Irish Bostonians of his generation. With Bobby and Ted, the accent was even more unique than Jack’s, as they attended some schooling in Britain, when their father was serving as Ambassador. They use the same “a” that the British use with words like “ask” “dance”, not the more flattened (not sure if that word is accurate) “a” that Americans, including Jack Kennedy himself. Well, that’s my two cents. But I do thank you for your comment; it was fun and interesting to read. I was making a general observation, and not a precise examination of the intricacies of linguistics, though I thank you for that information. It’s a subject that has always interested me, though I have never mastered the symbols, and what exactly they represent. But I can say this. One of my grandmothers was a French Canadian native of Maine, which itself has a similar but distinct accent of its own, and she retained some of it all her 102 years, even though she lived most of her life in Massachusetts. She would often, for example, use “eyah” for “yes”. But to many from outsiders, the various accents sound similar. She often told of a story about a visit to her son, when he lived in Nashville Tennessee in the early 1960’s. One manager of a small convenience store remarked to her that she sounded just like President Kennedy.

The Transatlantic accent was common in upper society then

If you got to speak truth to power, might as well speak thier language ;)

The Ban Man Two very different individuals. As a young man, Roosevelt was often considered a lightweight, more like a George W Bush than Trump. But in 1921, FDR contracted polio, which paralyzed him, and also completely transformed him. Through his own suffering, which should not be minimized, he began to learn compassion for the suffering of others. It was a traumatic experience for him, but it made him a better human being, and a better President. Roosevelt spent between a third and half of his trust fund buying and transforming a run-down resort in Warm Springs, GA, into a top notch rehabilitation facility. The location was ideal, because the springs there were warmer than usual water (allowing patients to spend more time in the water), and the minerals in the water gave it greater buoyancy, thus helping polio patients more support from the water. Warm Springs helped many polio patients, and the facility is still open today, though the patients it treats suffer from other forms of paralysis or disability, as the discovery of a polio vaccine in the 1950’s has almost completely eradicated that dreaded disease. Somehow, I can’t quite picture Trump spending his money in this way.

Wh the heck is donnie lol?-0.0 ohhh as in donald lmao facepalms

Excellent commentary!

donnie the dumbfuck or dumbfuck donnie as i call him doesnt know shit from good chocolate. thank god hes done now.

The Very greatest!

And the oldest comment ever posted.

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No There is Footage of William McKinley's 1897 Inaguration has Well

There’s video and audio of Hoover’s

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doglover4100 maybe Lincoln? Please! Lincoln is number one!

FDR sold ya'll out. Its all going to expose itself in the coming years.

doglover4100 Totally agree

@@AtmaureanNoble7 FDR is a huge reason why we're even here today. You owe him a lot.

i only hope that washington's presidential job went better than his job as a general. because i heard he sucked at that one.

This is gay it doesn’t even sound like him

He was President for 12 years.. So must of sounded younger.

@@EpicSamYT LOL it is him weirdo.

Scriptfully It was filmed and recorded over 80 years ago! The film could use some restoration, but it’s in remarkable shape, considering the state of technology at that time.

90 years ago

Agreed. Both TR and FDR were masterful in their careers and colourful in their own sense.

Ian Hnizdo 1000% agree. I get goosebumps every time I listen to FDR. A great, great man.

I want to hear no where not halfway done

jdnewick Amen!

ZaNe Blazze meh. He’s top 3 for sure. Washington prevented our democracy from turning into a royalty in all but name. Lincoln saves our union and managed the reckoning of the nations founding sin, that it failed to live up to its own ideals that all men were created equal. By winning the war he achieved both goals and gave his life,. And he did all his while his wife deteriorated to insanity and his son died as a child. And FDR saved us from a seemingly perpetual depression and changed the meaning of what we ought to owe each other as a society, a social security net indicative of our love and care for our fellow citizens. They are all great

This is newsreel film release and out-takes which I had the honor to help the Franklin D.Roosevelt Library piece back together so we could have the entire speech available on film. He was a superb orator.

"Without limits". And that's why our country is failing right now. These oligarch monopolies. They scare you with socialism but never mention red scare. When you see red scare socialism, it looks identical to the capitalism In America today, I don't care what you call it communism, socialism (which it isn't )- when you get an oligarchy, suffering is assured. So they call any ideas , of any real, moral virtue, "socialist!"

He'd be called a socialist RINO today.

+zepps88 good luck with that...

Yeah, you pretty much failed. It's up to Trump now.

Ronald Reagan I said honest, not full of shit

its Trump

+Ronald Reagan *Bernie is even older than you were after you got shot by Hinkley and became a vegetable, you old fart.*

You think we were proud and powerful in 1932?

@@jonalderson5571 Yes. The English don't shut up about how long it took for us to show up. We were respected. We were looked at as powerful. And we rose even more, afterward. Furthermore, we rose after a depression.

@@apove1814 The US was on the brink of collapse in 1932

the country just got shit whipped, the depression just started, japan and germany were wreaking havok. the world was on the brink of war. learn stuff dude this is all in the context of the speech. the super rich were living it up as the rest of us spent nights in hooverville in central park,

@@Megadeaf75 That comment was from 13 years ago, you realize...?

Thanks, Joe McCarthy.

What point are you even trying to make? You realise that the last three lines of this are a prayer, right. "In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come." Is it just that he didn't say the exact same prayer, but a differently worded restating of the exact same thing, with the same reference to God? Is that what you're trying to say? That the religious devotions today aren't originally worded enough?

And trumpism

Laura Mccarthy This probably isn't much help, but perhaps a biography from a library would help.

Jeff Hietala 538 actually

FDR only got that many electoral votes in 1936, when he carried 46 out of 48 states (including all of the states outside of New England).

Thomas Paine bernie2020bernie2020bernie2020

Dj Rickey Ricardo That’s a gigantic understatement 😂 he was easily one of the best