When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
There have been 44 American leaders and each of them have left behind a legacy of their own. Many are considered great and some considered dour to the country but to me there is only one that stands out. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 to his mother Sara Roosevelt, and to his father, James Roosevelt 1 in Hyde Park, NY. His family was among the wealthy but his mother believed in raising her kid to not rely on others. Until he was 8 he was home schooled by one of the best tutors and it wasn't until Franklin turned 9 that he went to his first school. He wasn't the best in his class but he was a hard worker and popular amoungst the kids. …show more content…
During the 1910 campaign for State Senate, Roosevelt portrayed himself as a man of the people running against an out-of-touch Republican incumbent. He barnstormed around the district in a bright red car, sometimes giving speeches from the back seat. And in the villages and farms of rural New York, he began to develop the conversational style of public speaking that he later brought to the White House. One person who surely had an impact was his wife. Like FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt was the product of a wealthy, high-society New York family—in fact, the same wealthy, high-society New York family. Eleanor was also a Roosevelt by birth, Franklin's fifth cousin once removed. When the two married in 1905, cousin and President Theodore Roosevelt presided at their wedding, observing to the groom, "Well, Franklin, there's nothing like keeping the name in the family." 1916, FDR began an affair with Lucy Mercer, a beautiful, younger woman whom Eleanor had recently hired as her social secretary. When Eleanor discovered proof of the relationship in 1918, she and Franklin nearly divorced; only the efforts of FDR's mother Sara and his political advisor Louis Howe convinced them to stay together. Divorce would almost certainly have ended FDR's political
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
There have been 44 American leaders and each of them have left behind a legacy of their own. Many are considered great and some considered dour to the country but to me there is only one that stands out. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 to his mother Sara Roosevelt, and to his father, James Roosevelt 1 in Hyde Park, NY. His family was among the wealthy but his mother believed in raising her kid to not rely on others. Until he was 8 he was home schooled by one of the best tutors and it wasn't until Franklin turned 9 that he went to his first school. He wasn't the best in his class but he was a hard worker and popular amoungst the kids. …show more content…
During the 1910 campaign for State Senate, Roosevelt portrayed himself as a man of the people running against an out-of-touch Republican incumbent. He barnstormed around the district in a bright red car, sometimes giving speeches from the back seat. And in the villages and farms of rural New York, he began to develop the conversational style of public speaking that he later brought to the White House. One person who surely had an impact was his wife. Like FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt was the product of a wealthy, high-society New York family—in fact, the same wealthy, high-society New York family. Eleanor was also a Roosevelt by birth, Franklin's fifth cousin once removed. When the two married in 1905, cousin and President Theodore Roosevelt presided at their wedding, observing to the groom, "Well, Franklin, there's nothing like keeping the name in the family." 1916, FDR began an affair with Lucy Mercer, a beautiful, younger woman whom Eleanor had recently hired as her social secretary. When Eleanor discovered proof of the relationship in 1918, she and Franklin nearly divorced; only the efforts of FDR's mother Sara and his political advisor Louis Howe convinced them to stay together. Divorce would almost certainly have ended FDR's political