Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Neville Chamberlain thoroughly dislikes Americans.
See {634908} for an interaction between the two men that shaped FDR’s opinion. Roosevelt, when President very much sided with Winston Churchill in disapproval of Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler at Munich at the beginning of WWII. Morganthau became FDR’s choice for Treasury Secretary when he became President.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States (Democrat, NY), Remark to his friend Henry Morgenthau ~1920
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FDR was then a candidate for the Democratic Vice Presidential Nomination. This statement shocked some of the conservative French and British delegates and officials such as Ramsay MacDonald, Georges Bonnet, and Neville Chamberlain, but economist John Maynard Keynes strongly approved of Roosevelt Roosevelt’s statements. At issue was whether or not the major currency powers should confer frequently and set the international currency exchange rates or should the rates float and be determined at any point by the free market in currency. FDR held the latter view which was opposed to the positions of the conservative banker-oriented delegates from the European counties, However Roosevelt’s statement was considered “harsh” and “vituperative” by the conservatives and the entire conference collapsed over them. FDR admitted that perhaps he had been too strong and blunt in his language. An irony of this quotation is that 80 years later the positions of liberals and conservatives had both flip-flopped. It became the conservatives who adopted the FDR free market for currency exchange while many liberals called for government intervention and agreement on exchange rates to prevent instability.
See {401426} for more on his view of nationality and nationalism.
FDR was hated by conservatives to a degree that no President in modern history was or would be until Bill Clinton served in that role. Both men were amazingly successful with their programs and administration of the government.
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
- Born: January 30, 1882
- Died: April 12, 1945
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
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.
