Fdr Attitude

FDR’s strong-willed attitude allowed him to become a great leader. For example “In 1935 he passed his own Revenue Act-shamelessly dubbed the ‘soak the rich’ tax - on gifts, estates, and corporate and investment income, demonstrating his egalitarian commitments. Prodded by the townsend plan and old-age pension agitation, he engineered the passage of the Social Security Act, providing an income floor for the elderly as well as the unemployed, the widowed and the orphaned” (Greenberg 1). Through the Revenue Act, FDR paved the way for his Social Security Act, showing his determination to assist the elderly, unemployed, and orphaned. The reason this proves FDR to be a strong leader is because he wanted to bring change to aid the weak, and the reason it takes strong-will to aid

people is because their is a mass majority of them and if you may not be able to bring aid to everyone.

Afterwards, During FDR’s second inaugural address in 1937, in the midst of a crippling nationwide depression, he said,"I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. [...] The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" (Roosevelt para. 29-30). Through this quote, FDR expressed his tenacious attitude because even though he was up against a great depression, he was determined to fix the problems of the poor nation, no easy task. Any admirable leader should have the ability to persevere through a troubling period because it proves that leader is strong and fit to manage a situation. Regardless of the evidence of FDR’s determination, others believed that FDR was wrong in his reforms because he brought sweeping changes to the government's business as usual attitude., However the changes that FDR made had positive effects for America. For example, “Had the Hundred Days swiftly brought about economic recovery, a return to business as usual might have meant politics as usual as well. In that scenario it is doubtful that any of those landmark reforms would have come to

pass... He could hardly ignore the compelling need to steer the economy out of the Depression, but he refused to allow that task to deflect him from his more important objective of making American life less hazardous — and more inclusive — ever after” (Kennedy 1). A way that FDR showed another act of determination is how he steered towards change, and without change, the world might still be in a global depression. FDR refused to make an America fueled by change because he wanted to make America a better and safer place which shows his determination.