The Accomplishments Of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Graduating from Harvard, becoming a senator, becoming a governor, becoming president, surviving polio. Each of these feats is an incredible accomplishment that anyone would be celebrated for, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not just anyone. FDR is celebrated as the man who lead America through two of its most formative events, the Great Depression, and World War 2.
In 1932, during the depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt managed to defeat incumbent president Herbert Hoover In a landslide victory. Roosevelt used his optimism to renew the national spirit, and in his first 100 days in office instituted the New Deal. The New Deal was an unprecedented undertaking that included introducing major legislation and a torrent of executive orders