LAD #33: FDR's First Inaugural Address

FDR's speech begins by outlining the issues faced by the American public, whether it be unemployment, or the lack of circulation of currency through credit throughout the United States. He explains how these issues are derived from such materialistic performed by the " The money changers" who "have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization". He believes that the ways of Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover were too cocenred with the ecomonic and fiscal ways of the time, when "social" benefits were needed to restore the ahppiness of society. The entire speech radiates with an aura of an almost deity looking down onto a people straying from the "ancient ways" which governed the American pathway to greatness. He claims to have to pull the American people from the grip of monetary society and seek the honor and "thrill" of achievement and bringing in an honest day of work. As opposed to the "trickle down" policies of before, Roosevelt outlined a series of projects and programs that were designed to directly stimulate  people with ethical regeneration as opposed to fiscal thirst-quenching. He outlined programs conserving and using the nation's natural resources, devoting men to work, and preventing future massive crisis to occur. He knew his exectuive leadership was to be straining the limits of prior authority, but he called for popular support and used the elasticity of the Constitution as justification. In the end he made sure that his goal was to protect and support the ideal of American democracy.