Essays on Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Introduction

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, or FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. He was a Democrat who was a successful politician and who was able to win a total of four presidential elections. He is still perceived as a strong leader who was able to steer the United States through a global depression and through the Second World War (The White House, 2016). Even when he was stricken with polio in 1921, he continued to participate in politics and serve his constituents. This short paper will examine his leadership style, as well as his strengths and weaknesses while ...

The presidential powers have considerably extended since the time when the Founding fathers framed the Constitution of the United States. At that time, the thirteen colonies that formed a newly established state were afraid of a strong executive leadership. They feared that if a president were entitled by the Constitution to have extended powers, he would have misused or abused these powers, governed by self-interests, rather than the interests of the nation. This skepticism toward strong leadership resulted from the experience that the founders had when dealing with the English monarch (The Declaration of Independence, 1776). In order to ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is among the most influential American presidents. He took over as president in 1932, three years after the start of the Great Depression. As president, Roosevelt wasted no time in rolling out a series of federal government programs aimed at giving relief to the poor, recover the ailing economy and review the country’s national approach to economics. Roosevelt’s new structured formulae were collectively dubbed, ‘The New Deal.”After four years in power, the depression showed no signs of ending hence drastic improvements to the economy were needed. When Roosevelt accepted his party’s nomination ...