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The thirty-second president of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt is considered among the greatest political leaders of the twentieth century. In American history, Roosevelt served as President of the United States for a longer time than any other man. Elected to the office of president for an unprecedented four consecutive terms, he served as U.S. chief executive from 1933 to his death in 1945. The economic reforms implemented by Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression of the 1930s—known collectively as the "New Deal"—are thought to have transformed the role of the federal government as a regulator of social and economic security. For his leadership of the United States during the Second World War, Roosevelt is acknowledged

President was a period of frenzied activity in response to the extreme economic crisis that gripped the nation. Roosevelt's program of relief measures, the New Deal, was designed to provide assistance to suffering Americans and to spur the stagnant economy through a series of federal expenditures and initiatives. Among the programs instituted were the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration; the implementation of a social security program for the unemployed and elderly; and the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the National Recovery Administration. Roosevelt was reelected in 1936, despite the fact that certain portions of the New Deal, including the National Industrial Recovery Act, were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. As the Great Depression continued through the 1930s, Roosevelt's attentions were increasingly drawn toward Europe, where the aggression of Nazi Germany could no longer be ignored. Large-scale war had broken out with Adolf Hitler's 1939 invasion of Poland. In 1940 Roosevelt was reelected for a third term. Meanwhile, military preparations had already begun in the United States, and Roosevelt initiated the "Lend-Lease" Bill, which granted Great Britain much-needed munitions and supplies for the war with Germany. The Japanese

Roosevelt. Among the texts contained in this work are transcripts of Roosevelt's well-publicized "fireside chats"—radio addresses to the American people that he conducted throughout his presidency. Roosevelt's speeches of note include his acceptance speech for the 1932 U.S. presidential nomination, his first inaugural address of 1933, and his 1937 "Quarantine" speech calling for a check on the aggression of the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan. While scholars acknowledge that these speeches were composed in large part by professional speechwriters, Roosevelt had the final say as to their content, and frequently made emendations to their texts. Critics of the speeches have since analyzed their rhetorical merit and technique, as well as their historical significance in order to achieve a broad understanding of Roosevelt as a politician and