Radio address

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: February 18, 1931

Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. Radio Address on a Program of Assistance for the Crippled, February 18, 1931. Available at the New Deal Network online at http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1931a.htm; website home-page http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) was the governor of New York State in 1931, and in 1932 was elected president of the United States. Roosevelt is famous for leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II (1939–45), in the process serving longer than any other president (1933–45). At age thirty-nine, Roosevelt was cripled by polio. Although he spent seven years working to regain the use of his legs, his...