1.44: #2 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bourbon and History
English - July 11, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHistory Government history presidents government wars bourbon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As the nations longest serving president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR, was forced to tackle the monumental task of rescuing the country from the depths of the Great Depression. After enacting a wide-range of legislative initiatives to rescue the nations economy, FDR then had to combat the rise of fascism abroad, eventually dragging a reluctant, isolationist nation into the doldrums of a world war.