In December of 1940, Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech not on war but on national security. He informs the people that the purpose of being their president is to keep the people now and the people in later years “out of a last-ditch war for the preservation of American of American Independence and all the things that American independence means to you, to me, and to ours.” (Fireside Chat) The speech that Franklin Roosevelt gave on December 29, 1940 became known as the Arsenal of Democracy speech. In this speech Roosevelt begins by telling the people of the new crisis they face, the new threat to security of our nation, must be taken on with the same courage and realism as they did eight years prior to that when the banking system “ceased function.”
