Franklin Roosevelt | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Franklin Roosevelt


00:05:26 1 Early life and marriage
00:05:35 1.1 Childhood and education
00:08:53 1.2 Marriage, family, and affairs
00:13:14 2 Early political career (1910–1920)
00:13:26 2.1 New York State senator (1910–1912)
00:17:07 2.2 Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1919)
00:21:27 2.3 Campaign for Vice President (1920)
00:23:19 3 Paralytic illness and political comeback (1921–1928)
00:27:39 4 Governor of New York (1929–1932)
00:31:08 5 1932 presidential election
00:36:27 6 Presidency (1933–1945)
00:37:56 6.1 First and second terms (1933–1941)
00:39:12 6.1.1 First New Deal (1933–1934)
00:44:17 6.1.2 Second New Deal (1935–1936)
00:48:31 6.1.3 Landslide re-election, 1936
00:50:45 6.1.4 Supreme Court fight and second term legislation
00:55:26 6.1.5 Conservation and the environment
00:56:28 6.1.6 GNP and unemployment rates
00:57:49 6.1.7 Foreign policy (1933–1941)
01:02:46 6.2 Election of 1940: Breaking with tradition
01:05:12 6.3 Third and fourth terms (1941–1945)
01:05:24 6.3.1 Lead-up to the war
01:07:58 6.3.2 Pearl Harbor and declarations of war
01:11:36 6.3.3 War plans
01:13:27 6.3.4 Nuclear program
01:14:27 6.3.5 Wartime conferences
01:17:49 6.3.6 Course of the war
01:21:07 6.3.7 Home front
01:25:15 6.3.8 Declining health
01:26:27 6.3.9 Election of 1944
01:28:16 6.3.10 Final months, death and aftermath (1945)
01:30:56 7 Civil rights, internment, and the Holocaust
01:35:43 8 Legacy
01:35:51 8.1 Historical reputation
01:38:16 8.2 Memorials
01:39:00 9 See also



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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (, ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which realigned American politics into the Fifth Party System and defined American liberalism throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II. He is often rated by scholars as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, to a Dutch American family made well known by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. FDR attended Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School, and went on to practice law in New York City. In 1905, he married his fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt. They had six children. He won election to the New York State Senate in 1910, and then served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. Roosevelt was James M. Cox's running mate on the Democratic Party's 1920 national ticket, but Cox was defeated by Warren G. Harding. In 1921, Roosevelt contracted a paralytic illness, believed at the time to be polio, and his legs became permanently paralyzed. While attempting to recover from his condition, Roosevelt founded the treatment center in Warm Springs, Georgia, for people with poliomyelitis. In spite of being unable to walk unaided, Roosevelt returned to public office by winning election as Governor of New York in 1928. He was in office from 1929 to 1933 and served as a reform Governor, promoting programs to combat the economic crisis besetting the United States at the time.
In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide. Roosevelt took office while the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the country's history. During the  ...