Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Proclamation 2065—Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment." 5 Dec. 1933. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, vol. 2, Random House, 1938, p. 511.
Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
This anti-prohibition plank passed by the largest margin of any on the platform.
i.e. serving no intoxicating beverages at the White House The practice to which he was referring was serving no intoxicating beverages at the White House.
With Prohibition, the demand for alcohol was the same as ever, but the supply was restricted. Since much of the alcohol in the south was produced in illegal stills, Prohibition, did not affect the supply from those sources. As a matter of fact history shows that they ramped up production to fill the supply gap that was created by Prohibition. The North had very few illegal stills before Prohibition and there was very little capability to replace the legal sources that Prohibition had curtailed.
The authenticity of this quotation has been in contention for years. While many sources attributed this statement to Lincoln, no one has ever found a document in which it appears. Further, it was so clearly consonant with the anti-Prohibition argument that we suspected it as a “Phantom Quotation” (See http://politicalquotes.org/node/4063). As a result, we did not include this quotation until March of 2014. The reason we changed our mind was a newspaper article that was pointed out to us, and after reading it, we tilted in favor of inclusion. The article is http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/LincolnQuote/lpq0001.jpg
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s See {642389} for one of the negative effects of American isolation and the of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II, which ended shortly after he died in office.
