Why was FDR's Fear Itself speech so important?FDR's First Inaugural Speech:In March 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. This was in the midst of the Great Depression, whose effects the nation and the world had been suffering through ...
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In that first speech, Roosevelt praised the “fortitude and good temper with which everybody [accepted] the hardships of the banking holiday.” The holiday, as well as the radio address, seemed to have the intended effect: When the banks opened again, the panicked “bank runs” that people...