Franklin D. Roosevelt

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mentally unfit for the presidency, he flew to Chicago and
pledged to the people at the Democratic National Convention, a New Deal.
That expression, a symbol of an era in American history, represented a
cluster of ideas formulated by the candidate and his Brain Trust, a group
of advisors recruited from New York's Columbia University. On the eve of
the March 1933 inauguration, the nation's banking system collapsed as
millions of panicky depositors tried to withdraw savings that the banks had
tied up in long-term loans. On that evening, Roosevelt told Americans that,
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." His New Deal established
programs like the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Works
Progress Administration, and theTennessee Valley Authority. During World
War II, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, Great Britain's prime minister,
personally determined Allied military and naval strategy in the West. But,
under the pressures of wartime leadership, his health ...

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