Franklin D Roosevelt Compare And Contrast

President Comparison Report Franklin D. Roosevelt Ronald Reagan

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. His father was a successful businessman and their family was well known as part of wealthy New York community leaders for several prior generations.

FDR married Eleanor Roosevelt. They were fifth cousins and Eleanor was a niece of prior U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin and Eleanor had six children.

Roosevelt received his education from very exclusive and prestigious schools. After attending the Groton School, a private Episcopal boarding high school in Massachusetts, he went on to

Over a period of eight years, the government created a series of revolutionary projects and programs, such as the Worker’s Progress Administration (WPA), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and others. Of the 10,000,000 unemployed Americans in 1935, the WPA employed 3,000,000 people working on public project jobs. “While FDR believed in the elementary principles of justice and fairness, he also expressed disdain for doling out welfare to otherwise able workers. So, in return for monetary aid, WPA workers built highways, schools, hospitals, airports and playgrounds.”

Roosevelt’s New Deal was very instrumental in permanently changing the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. citizens.

Roosevelt had recently been reelected for a third term and was President when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the United States officially began to fight in World War II. Roosevelt was Commander in Chief of the United States, and worked closely with US military leaders and its Allies including Great Britain’s Winston Churchill to defeat the Axis power countries and their leaders – Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, Germany’s Adolph Hitler, and Italy’s Benito Mussolini.

Roosevelt contracted and lived with a debilitating and crippling disease believed to be polio

was also in a difficult economic situation and recession. At Reagan’s inaugural address to the country he said “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.” from History.com. Reagan believed that smaller government with less interference and regulation on businesses and reductions in social programs was overall better for the country and the citizens. President Reagan implemented policies to cut taxes in an effort to allow citizens to keep and use more of their own money, rather than sending it to the government, to hopefully result in economic growth. His plan was known as