FDR believed in the four freedoms, and this monument symbolizes them.
Inside the museum
Global Depression, 25% unemployment, factories closing, banks failing
9000 banks failed, nearly 100000 businesses closed, profits dropped 90%, Farm income fell.
Shack cities called Hoovervilles and bread lines
Lost farms, Higher suicide rates, increasing despair. Hoover was a limited government president and believed that charities should provide the economic relief, not government. He refused federal money to help the unemployed. Sounds familiar.
Billboards and Posters
FDR won the election, but before he took office, it got worse. This was a time when the president elect took office in March of the following year. The inauguration date was changed to January 20th in 1933.
Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at Roosevelt and missed. He wounded four people and killed the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak. FDR had Cermak placed in his car and held him as they rushed to the hospital
Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed bricklayer who hated rich people and politicians.
Hoover liked FDR, but thought him to be naive.
Campaign memorabilia
Family Memorabilia
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Campaign flyers
FDR had great respect and admiration for his distant cousin Theodore
FDR's mistress.
Who knows!
FDR founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1938, later known as the March of Dimes. The comedian Eddie Cantor joking suggested that people send dimes to the president to help fight polio and coined the term "March of Dimes" Donations poured in.
As Governor of New York.
As President
Government sponsored jobs, farm relief, wage stabilization, improved access to modern conveniences in impoverished regions.
Created a bank holiday, temporarily closed all banks and convened Congress to pass emergency banking legislation in an effort to stabilize them
The repeal of Prohibition in 1933
The Alphabet President....FERA, PWA, WPA, CCC, NRA, TVA
"Boys--this is our hour. We've got to get everything we want-- a work program, social security, wages and hours, everything now or never. Get your minds to work on developing a complete ticket to provide security for all the folks of this country up and down and across the board." Presidential Adviser, Harry Hopkins November 1934
Listening to a Fireside Chat
Not everybody was a believer.
Eleanor was civil rights pioneer, social reformer and political activist.
When the DAR refused to allow Marian Anderson to perform at Constitution Hall, Eleanor had her at the White House and resigned from the DAR, she later arranged for a concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
After learning of FDR's affair, their relationship became more of a political partnership. She became his social conscience.
FDR was everywhere.
Re-Election time.
Royal Visit
He didn't get everything he wanted.
Another defeat
Why not?
No more 4 term presidents.
The first Presidential Library
FDR's study
Mom's portrait
He tried to stay out of the war.
Franklin did not actively seek the third term nomination.
Once nominated, the campaign was on.
For and against.
America produced weapons and supplies for the Allies.
Population growth during the Depression was low.
He won again.
Norman Rockwell's four freedoms... The war bond effort
Pearl Harbor
The Memorial at Pearl Harbor is an awesome tribute to those who perished that day.
Not one of our finest moments.
Eleanor was against it, but did not speak out publicly against her husband.
War Posters
Victory Gardens
Franklin's beloved Fala
Why fight Nazi Germany first.
The first effort at recycling.
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