What would it take to reform America in the recovery regarding the drastic financial burdens that afflicted the country during the presidential election of 1933 and reoccurring again in the 1981 election. The plans for recovery from this economic crisis transpired the main topic of the First Inaugural Address’ of both, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933) and Ronald W. Reagan (1981), ensuing being appointed, “President of the United States”. Regardless of a “Great Depression” or a deep recession, the conclusion needed for making America strong and prosperous once again remains the same. The plans of each gentlemen’s itineraries to bring “America” out of this crisis, differed as to the fundamental actions needed for resolving the circumstances at hand. Both men expressed an agreeance that Executive action was needed for national economic recovery.
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Roosevelt took office as United States President, America had been, since 1929, suffering in the bleak existence of the “Great Depression”. (1) The economic woes required desperate need of new transformation. During President Roosevelt’s first speech, he stated, “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will receive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. (FDR) He spoke of how the ethics of people being at a dramatic low, taxes being on the rise, the dramatic increase of employment as well as misdoings of government agencies resulting in the cause of the United States’ misfortunes. Roosevelt’s words transpired as if declaring war on the depression, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis— broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be
Roosevelt took office as United States President, America had been, since 1929, suffering in the bleak existence of the “Great Depression”. (1) The economic woes required desperate need of new transformation. During President Roosevelt’s first speech, he stated, “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will receive and will prosper. So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. (FDR) He spoke of how the ethics of people being at a dramatic low, taxes being on the rise, the dramatic increase of employment as well as misdoings of government agencies resulting in the cause of the United States’ misfortunes. Roosevelt’s words transpired as if declaring war on the depression, “I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis— broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be