FDR on Crises: Depression Relief

As president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a remarkably popular figure. His radio “Fireside Chats” went into millions of living rooms across the country; his picture hung on the walls of countless homes and businesses; his wife was the most admired woman in America. Since his death over six decades ago, FDR, the man who led America successfully through the twentieth century’s two great crises—the Depression and World War II—has been transformed from personality to icon.