On this day in history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was born!
FDR’s First Fireside Chat
Today in history, March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside Chat. Using the radio to speak directly to the nation, FDR laid out his plan to address the banking crisis of the Great Depression.
Watch archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library here.
More — President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
-from the FDR Library
FDR’s First Fireside Chat
Today in history, March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside Chat. Using the radio to speak directly to the nation, FDR laid out his plan to address the banking crisis of the Great Depression.
Watch archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library here.
More — President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
-from the FDR Library
We are a day late on this but this is great information.
Navy CPO Graham Jackson with tears of grief streaming down his cheeks as he plays ‘Goin’ Home’ on the accordion while President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s body is carried from the Warm Springs Foundation where he died suddenly on April 12, 1945 of a stroke. (Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #FDR #TBT
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
ICYMI: Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, lends her to support to Eleanor’s Hope, an initiative to protect women’s health and retirement security.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935. Regular monthly payments to retirees began in 1940 and have continued ever since. But there have been several important adjustments to the program, including changes in the retirement age and increases in benefits to keep up with inflation. Here’s how the Social Security program has changed over 80 years…
via US News.
We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Social Security into law on this day in 1935 to provide seniors with basic income security after retirement, mitigating against the “vicissitudes and hazards of life.” Eighty-two years later, the program he created has kept several generations of seniors – and their families – out of poverty. In turn, the nation is very fortunate to have had several generations of Roosevelts dedicated to preserving Social Security.
A new analysis by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that #WomensRetirement income lags behind men’s. Our #EleanorsHope initiative is dedicated to helping close the gap between women & men when it comes to retirement savings and benefits. https://www.ncpssm.org/eleanors-hope/
