President of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
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The only US president to break the two-term tradition, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He remade the federal government's relationship to the economy during the Depression and led the country through most of World War II.
Born into wealth in Hyde Park, New York, Roosevelt moved through Harvard, a New York State Senate seat in 1910, and a post as assistant secretary of the Navy under Wilson. In 1921, an illness permanently paralyzed his legs, but with his wife Eleanor's encouragement he returned to politics and won the New York governorship in 1928. He crushed Herbert Hoover in 1932 and spent his first hundred days pushing through the New Deal — relief programs, financial regulation, the end of Prohibition — then won reelection in 1936 by a historic margin. After Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he obtained a decl…
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Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times.
I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign.
My friends, judge me by the enemies I have made.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.
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