Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

March 4th, 1933 was a very important day in America, it was the opportunity for someone new to make their mark on America and to be inducted into the presidential office. Franklin D. Roosevelt or commonly known as “FDR” was chosen by the Democratic Party and majority of the American people over Herbert Hoover. After being inducted, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his First Inaugural address to a scared and hopeless nation. FDR was confident that he could turn around a nation that had been experiencing the worst economic crisis in American History, and after the reassurance of not only the American people but the electoral voters. He was ready to give his speech that was called “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself “.

After President Roosevelt put his ideas on the table, he left many congressman very curious and doubtful, the newly appointed President of the United States then called for changes in agriculture, government budgets, relief, banking, national planning, international trade, and was determined to make a good neighbor policy to help improve relationships with Latin America. Statements like these had never been asked for and still have not been asked for in a first inaugural address by any president. During his First inaugural address Roosevelt, many times used ethos type sentences in his First Inaugural address to help give America a different but positive perspective on their situation. He states that "In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties." By using this ethos example President Roosevelt makes his listeners or the American people feel equal to him even though he has power above them and will be making decisions that he feels are right for America. President Roosevelt also uses the current economic crisis that the American people are in as well as his own confidence to give the allusion that he will be immediately making everything better and faster than any other of the past presidents had ever done. While running for the Presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt kept many of his political ideas to himself, he almost never told anybody what he was really going to do. He instead clearly thought about his ideas before bringing them up for debate as well as never getting to close to his political allies. Even his closest political allies stated that “none of the president-elect’s most intimate associates felt they knew him well, with the exception perhaps of his wife, Eleanor. The affable, witty Roosevelt used his great personal charm to keep most people at a distance.” By doing this Roosevelts idea were