How Did David Roosevelt's Inaugural Address

On March 4, 1933, at his inaugural, president Roosevelt addressed himself to the American people with this statement: “This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” These words helped inspire the American people. From the hard times they had endured and through their helplessness they were ready for someone to take leadership. In Roosevelt’s inaugural address he promised that if congress did not act, he would ask for “broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” During his first days as president, Roosevelt was determined to restore the confidence of …show more content…
This eventually added to the downward spiral of the american economy in this time. Many wondered what the N.R.A. was doing to help with things, but there was no political machinery for N.R.A. codes and regulations. Of 155,000 cases sent in by N.R.A. officials, less than one in four hundred were addressed in the courts. In the spring of 1934, a National Recovery Review Board under the lead of Clarence Darrow reported that the N.R.A. system had been dominated by big business, and had urged that socialism was needed to get into the clear. By 1935, there were arguments beginning to arise between General Johnson and Clarence Darrow. Through this, the N.R.A. lost much of its widespread respect and admiration. Johnson tried to make the N.R.A. more acceptable to small business, but was forced to resign. Many months later, the N.R.A. limped along under a five-man board (Getting rid of Johnson for trying to further smaller businesses shows that Darrow’s suspicions of the N.R.A. being run by big business were true). After news of this got out, many started to see the N.R.A. as a “shaky and unpopular agency”. For organized