The InaugurationFROM the Hudson to the Potomac, Courage and Hope for a Depressed Nation

Why do conservatives still hate President Franklin D. Roosevelt? Why have three generations of right-wingers attacked his accomplishments? It's because FDR stood up to the most concentrated and vicious attacks by the men he called "economic royalists," and came out on top nearly every time. On the night of Oct. 31, 1936, on the eve of his re-election to a second term, FDR stood in Madison Square Garden in New York and laid down the gauntlet to his enemies.

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