Tag: Franklin D Roosevelt

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1933-04-05 In the United States, newly inaugurated President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which prohibited the “hoarding” of gold by U.S. citizens. Americans were required to turn their gold holdings over to the federal government at the prevailing price of $20.67 per ounce.

Pursuant to Roosevelt’s executive order, anyone caught violating the law was subject to a federal felony conviction, 10 years’ confinement in a federal penitentiary, and a $10,000 fine.
1933-03-04 Franklin Roosevelt becomes U.S. President.
1933 George F. Kennan is dispatched by Franklin D Roosevelt to open diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
1932-11-08 In the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt wins the presidential election over Herbert Hoover in dramatic fashion.
Roosevelt wins 472 electoral votes (22.8 million popular) to Hoover’s 59 (15.8 million popular). The election illustrates the widespread public opinion that Hoover is largely to blame for the continuing economic crisis. By the end of the year, 13 million Americans are unemployed, total wages are 60 percent less than they were in 1929, and business losses are estimated to be as much as $6 billion.
1932-07-02 In the United States, in his acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination, Franklin Delano Roosevelt pledges “a new deal for the American people,” marking his first public use of that term.
1932 Owen D Young sought the democratic presidential nomination, but LOST to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
-- Franklin D Roosevelt, president of the USA, in his first inaugural address
“When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.”
(Franklin D. Roosevelt during the first few days that the Second World War was breaking out)
Harry Dexter White was one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisors

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