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Franklin D Roosevelt Biography

Franklin D Roosevelt is often regarded as the finest American statesman of the twentieth century and is viewed as one of the most popular presidents of all time ranking high in the company of esteemed statesmen such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and John F.

Kennedy.

From his first term as President in 1933 Roosevelt endeared himself to the nation by conveying a message of sincere optimism driven by the strength of his policies that were designed to combat the great depression engulfing 1930's America.

He was a peoples president who ingratiated himself to the millions of people suffering from economic hardships with a slew of policies designed to utilise the unemployed to expand on the nations infrastructure, providing much needed relief to struggling farmers and targeting the Wall Street business cartels to break up their selfish monopolies.

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