It's time we elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt to a fifth term as president. Specifically, we need to re-re-elect the Roosevelt of 1936. Accepting his party's nomination that June for a second term, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the most radical speech ever given by an American president. Comparing the corporate elite of the 1930s to the royalists of 1776, he told the 100,000 people gathered at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and the millions of Americans listening on the radio, "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America.
Harvey J. Kaye: Re-re-elect Fdr! Make 2012 The New 1936!
Harvey J. Kaye, Huffington Post: Politics
Fri, 07/06/2012 - 6:55am
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