FDR

//Franklin Delano Roosevelt//
The 32nd president of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. He lead the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.

 FDR was was responsible for initiatives and programs collectively known as the New Deal. It was passed by the U.S. congress during the first term of President Roosevelt being president, The New deal was basically in response to the Great Depression, focusing on relief, recovery, and reform. Still existing today is the regulation of Wall Street by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Surving programs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was created in 1933, and social security, which congress passed in 1935. Social Security is a social insurance program that is funded through dedicated payroll taxed called Federal Insurance Contributions Act.Tax deposits are formally entrusted to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, or the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York. His father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Ann Delano, were each from wealthy old New York families, of Dutch and French ancestry. Roosevelt went to Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Massachusetts. He was heavily influenced by its headmaster, Endicott Peabody, who preached the duty of Christians to help the less fortunate and urged his students to enter public service//.//  Roosevelt went to Harvard College – from which he graduated in 1904 – and where he lived in the "Gold Coast" area where wealthy and privileged students lived in luxurious quarters and was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He was also president of The Hardward Crimson daily newspaper. While he was at Harvard, his fifth cousin Theodore Roosevelt became President, and Theodore's vigorous leadership style and reforming zeal made him Franklin's role model and hero. In 1902, he met his future wife Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore's niece, at a White House reception (they had previously met as children, but this was their first serious encounter). Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed.

FDR's impact can still be noticed today. In Warm Springs, Georgia, the deveolpment of the //Rural Electrification Administration// and //New Deal// programs helped boost the quality of life. Warm Springs installed access ramps and other accommodations for making life easier for those with physical ailments. Also with Roosevelt having Polio, he used the hot springs that were in Warm Springs to help with the pain he was dealing with the pain he dealt with. With his positive experience with the springs, other people as well started to use the springs for healing. This town has still been majorly impacted. If it wasn't for the passing of //Americans with Disabilities Act// then there wouldn't be any of the ramps built for people in wheelchairs. Source: [] [] .

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