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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed document signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as President, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933. 5 pages, 4to, with accompanying TLS from M. A. LeHand to Mr. Barker, noting that the President has supplied a signed copy of the Address as requested .
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Typed document signed (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”), as President, First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1933. 5 pages, 4to, with accompanying TLS from M. A. LeHand to Mr. Barker, noting that the President has supplied a signed copy of the Address as requested . “THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF” This great speech was less a program for legislative action than a moral exhortation to the nation – to be less fearful. He calls for less materialism, more service, more honesty and probity in the financial and political sectors. Above all, he promised action. “I am prepared under my Constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.” If the Congress failed to act effectively in the face of the Depression FDR made clear he would exert “broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” The lot also contains a typed note by a later owner (Willis Thornton of Cleveland, Ohio) who makes the observation that the text used for this transcription comes from Looking Forward , 1933, which omits one paragraph of the delivered speech (“These, my friends, are the lines of attack…”)