Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt       ( Lawyer,  Politician)
Born	Franklin Delano Roosevelt January 30, 1882  Hyde Park,  New York,  U.S.
Died	April 12, 1945 (Age 63)  Warm Springs,  Georgia,  U.S.
Victim of	poisoning
Alma mater	•  Groton School •  Harvard University •  Columbia Law School
Religion	Episcopalian
Parents	•  James Roosevelt I •  Sara Roosevelt
Children	•  Anna Roosevelt Halsted •  James Roosevelt •  Elliott Roosevelt •  Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr •  John Aspinwall Roosevelt
Spouse	Eleanor Roosevelt
Member of	Alpha Delta Phi, Delano family, Phi Beta Kappa
Perpetrator of	Plan JB 355
Party	Democratic
Relatives	•  See •  Roosevelt family •  Delano family
Widely recalled for strengthening the federal government and bringing the US into World War 2  US President In office March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945 Employer US Government Deputy John Garner, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace Preceded by Herbert Hoover Succeeded by Harry Truman  Governor of New York In office January 1, 1929 - December 31, 1932 Preceded by Al Smith  Assistant Secretary of the Navy  In office March 17, 1913 - August 26, 1920  Member of the New York State Senate for the 26th District In office January 1, 1911 - March 17, 1913

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often only FDR was president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda, while scheming to bring the US into World War 2.

From the FDR memorial, text reads: "They [who] seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order." March 15, 1941 — full speech

The Good Neighbor Policy

Franklin D. Roosevelt started something he christened the "The Good Neighbor Policy" towards Latin America. While seemingly benign, it was entirely compatible with the Root doctrine. It simply required that Washington substitute support of local dictators for its previous policy of invasions and occupations, the latter being the ultimate forms of interference forbidden by the new policy. The historian William Keylor ascribes the adoption of this new policy to Washington's embarrassment at the obvious similarity between its previous invasions and occupations of Latin America and the then current aggression of Japan in China. The parallel was too obvious, and compelled the implementation of a new way to maintain hegemony in the hemisphere.

Frederick H. Gareau wrote that "Washington relinquished, at least on paper, its right to intervene. For direct forms of dominance, it substituted indirect ones, reminiscent of but less formal than those employed in British indirect rule in Africa. Central to this new scheme was support - economic, military and diplomatic - for local autocrats - for their currencies, their national constabularies, and their personal greed. In return, these autocrats suppressed local communists and radicals, protected American business, and performed other favors when called upon to do so. The good neighbor policy and the Root doctrine not only accomplished the same essential goals, but the latter was generally more cost effective and presented a smoother surface. No need to invade to change unwanted regimes. Better to support the local military that would make the changes for you."

Suspicious death

In a 1946 conversation with Elliott Roosevelt, Stalin said "When your father died, I sent my ambassador with a request that he be allowed to view the remains and report to me of what he saw", but was denied access. Stalin wanted Andrei Gromyko to see the body because he believed FDR was poisoned by 'the Churchill gang,' and Stalin feared there were similar plans for himself. "They poisoned your father, and they continue to try to poison me," Stalin said. In a 1983 article, Elliott also described seeing his father's body lying in state at the White House after FDR died in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945. "I looked on father's face for the last time. I would hardly have known him...The cerebral hemorrhage that had caused his death also had caused extensive discoloration and distortion of his face."

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
Plan JB 355	A 1941 plan for dozens or hundreds of US bombers with American crews masked by Chinese markings to bombing Japanese cities

 

A Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Page	Quote	Date
US/Deep state	“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”	21 November 1933

 

A Franklin D. Roosevelt victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Huey Long

 

An appointment by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Homer Stille Cummings	US/Attorney General	4 March 1933	2 January 1939

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author
Bronson Cutting	“The fight against the abolition of the credit power of private banks will be a savage one, for their power as a unit is without equal in the country. Knowing this is why I think back to the events of March 4, 1933, with a sick heart. For then, with even the bankers thinking the whole economic system had crashed to ruin, the nationalization of banks by President Roosevelt could have been accomplished without a word of protest. It was President Roosevelt’s great mistake. Now the bankers will make a mighty struggle.”	Bronson Cutting

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