American Decades
"On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program"
Radio address
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date: July 24, 1933
Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program." Radio Address of the President, July 24, 1933. Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Available online at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/042433.html; website home-page: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ (accessed March 20, 2003).
About the Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) was the thirty-second president of the United States. He was elected to the presidency in 1932, during the worst year of the Great Depression. Only Lincoln assumed the presidency in a more desperate situation. In many ways, Roosevelt was the perfect president for the times. His unbounded optimism and energy gave the American people a sense...
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1930's Government and Politics Primary Sources
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- Letter to Major General Stuart Heintzelman
- "American Fascism in Embryo"
- "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"
- Harry Hopkins Press Conference, February 16, 1934
- "Federal Emergency Relief"
- Old Age Revolving Pensions
- "On Social Security"
- "What's the Matter with Congress?"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Hemingway Reports Spain"
- The Debate over Isolation
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1930's: Primary Sources
