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<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 290%; text-align: center;">The Daily Pulse ﻿By: Nikki, Julia, Gray, Quinn, Elena, and Dan = =



= = =FDR's Formative Years= = Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be forever known as the 32nd president of the United States of America. He had a passion for politics, and led our country through some of the hardest years for America. =

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York. His parents James and Sara Roosevelt, wanted the best for his education and decided to have private tutors for him. When he reached the age of fourteen FDR attended Groton preparatory school in Massachusetts. He was able to receive his BA degree in history in his first three years at Harvard. He next studied at Colombia University in New York City. He practiced law, but left before receiving a degree.

FDR married his distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt. Together they had six children, however, one died as a child. Their names were Anna, James, Elliot, Franklin Jr., and John. The large family spent vacations in Hyde Park. They also traveled to the island Campobello each summer. In the year 1918 Eleanor Roosevelt found that her husband had been having a love affair with Lucy Mercer. She was known to be a beautiful woman, who worked for Eleanor’s social secretary. FDR and ER came to the conclusion that divorce would ruin FDR’s political career, and stayed married with the trust FDR would never see Lucy again. Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘s relationship was never as strong again.

It was on August 10, 1921, the Roosevelt family was at their usual vacation spot, on the island Campobello. FDR felt very faint after a days worth of activities outdoors. The next day FDR woke up with a high fever. 48 hours later Roosevelt was no longer able to stand, for his legs were too weak. Eleanor Roosevelt was very concerned and called the doctors immediately. August 25, 1921 was the date Roosevelt was diagnosed with Polio (for more information-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis ). He was thirty-nine and paralyzed from the waist down; however this did not stop FDR's determination to mobility. He wore steel braces on his legs that allowed him to walk slowly. He also swam almost everyday to make his arms stronger to move in and out of his wheel chair easily. Polio did not effect Roosevelt's way of living life to its fullest.

__** The Accomplishments of Franklin D. Roosevelt **__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">President Franklin D Roosevelt made a huge impact on the US in his 12 years of presidency. He came to us in the depths of the Great Depression and passed major laws that I hope will carry on for many more generations. Some of those legislative developments include the Civilian Conservation Corp, which created jobs for more than three million people to work on various project; the National Industrial Recovery Act, which created the Public Works Administration and the National Recovery Administration; and many more important act that will be remember and used for many year to come.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His most important acts, by far, were the Social Security Act, which created a Social Security System and the National Labor Relations Act, which allowed workers to organize if they so chose, and allowed federal government to be used as an ally, if unions were to find themselves being ignore for the advancement of business.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Social Security Act, although originally imagined be Dr. Townsend was not the same Act as originally planned by Dr.Townsend, whose originally idea was to form a “social safety net” and redistribute money to the poor. Once the idea had gotten to Roosevelt, it was a very different act. The idea was to take a portion of from each of our paychecks. Although Roosevelt was forced to cut agricultural and domestic workers for the plan, the act was still passed in 1935.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -4.5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The National Labor Relations Act, or the Wagner Act, was created by Senator Robert Wagner. Wagner saw that workers were being treated unfairly. Roosevelt, although he was impartial to the passing or not passing of the bill, signed the bill making it a official act and helping our countries unspoken division between employers and employees. Roosevelt help our country make many important decision and he will be dearly missed. **//__The Killer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt__//** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He survived The Great Depression and World War II, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s mortality was finally proven tangible on April 12th, 1945. In his Georgia, Warm Springs residence, the 32nd President complained of a head and back pain, fainted, and died. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FDR had been grappling with paralytic disorders since 1921. His symptoms, indicative of minor back pain or an innocuous cold, rapidly snowballed into a serious paralytic disorder. By August 13th, Roosevelt’s symptoms had manifested into lower body immobilization. Doctors scrambled to diagnose the disease. They conjectured the illness was a blood clot, spine lesions, or polio, while FDR faded in and out of lucidity. He remained stable, and even gradually improved at the Presbyterian Hospital, however, bound to a wheelchair. From that day, Roosevelt’s handicap perpetually reminded him of his own fragility. <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not only was his physicality impaired, but his pride suffered as well. Roosevelt never ascertained that he would be paralyzed forever. He tried countless remedies, each ineffective, yet assured himself that hydrotherapy was truly rehabilitating. As a result of this, he purchased Warm Springs, a treatment center for polio. Roosevelt denied his wheelchair when he could-- painfully training himself to walk in an idiosyncratic method. When giving addresses, FDR would lean against one of his sons or guards. When presenting speeches, Roosevelt would hold the podium with his hands, using his head for charismatic gestures. He invented a faux-reality of assurance for the American people, for votes, for respect. Other news agencies respected that, or simply would not have wanted to write about such a taboo subject; as there are few pictures of Roosevelt in his chair. Roosevelt worked tirelessly to make sure his career was unaffected by his handicap.

<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, reports are surfacing that the stoic silence could have been more detrimental to the president than one may think. Some reporters think Roosevelt’s cardiologist, Bruenn, shielded the truth of FDR’s condition to the public and Roosevelt himself. The president’s political career was the utmost priority. In 1944 public murmurs of an impossibly sick Roosevelt resulted in a counter attack. He campaigned for presidency against Thomas Dewey in an open roof car during cold rain. The American people believed his veneer, and voted for him in droves.

<span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cause of his death is ambiguous as well. Roosevelt was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, a natural assumption because some parts of America are plagued with the disease. FDR’s doctor, Robert Lovett, is an expert on polio. As news of Roosevelt’s death spreads, more doctors are looking at Guillian-Barre syndrome, a relatively obscure disease. His symptoms, though expected for polio, fit other accounts of Guillian-Barre syndrome almost perfectly. Though many contend that this speculation is mere conjecture, the only way to test for this disease is through an extraction of spinal fluid, a procedure that was never performed. On the day of April 12, 1945, moments before his death, President Roosevelt <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told his doctor, “I have a terrible pain in the back of my head”. He then lost consciousness, and was carried into his bedroom. The president's personal physician, Dr. Howard Bruenn, then diagnosed a massive brain hemorrhage. The president was pronounced dead at 3:35 pm.



__**Roosevelt's Biography: A Life Through Hard Times**__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 48px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now as we prepare to face the challenges that lie head in the 1950s and the second half of this century, we must forge ahead without our beloved president, who guided us and comforted us during the dark days of the depression, and rallied the American public to rise to the huge manufacturing feat that needed to be accomplished in order to keep our army supplied and readily equipped so that they could carry out the forces of justice in the liberation of innocent people who were being persecuted. Will the 50s be a time of peace, or war? Economic growth or depression? A time when will look back on with pride, or regret? The truth is we have no absolute way of knowing, but we can only hope that we have prepared ourselves to meet whatever challenges we have to face, and more importantly meet those challenges with innovation and ethusiasm. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now as we prepare to face the challenges that lie head in the 1950s and the second half of this century, we must forge ahead without our beloved president, who guided us and comforted us during the dark days of the depression, and rallied the American public to rise to the huge manufacturing feat that needed to be accomplished in order to keep our army supplied and readily equipped so that they could carry out the forces of justice in the liberation of innocent people who were being persecuted. Will the 50s be a time of peace, or war? Economic growth or depression? A time when will look back on with pride, or regret? The truth is we have no absolute way of knowing, but we can only hope that we have prepared ourselves to meet whatever challenges we have to face, and more importantly meet those challenges with innovation and ethusiasm.




 * Article Teasers **

__ **Declaration of War on Japan** __ The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor entered the United States into World War II. President Roosevelt made a speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. He talked about how to resove the crises felt by Americans on the say after Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt called the attack on Pearl Harbor “a date which will live in infamy.” By saying this, Roosevelt implied that the attack will always be famous, but for the wrong reasons. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a horrible event, yet it will still be famous and shock millions. Roosevelt also said “our people, out territory, and our interests … in grave danger.” This is because many Americans had died on December 7, 1941, during the attack. So this event has definitely hurt our people and destroyed out territory. It will also soon affect our interests because Americans will be scared and never always feel safe. In his speech, Roosevelt did not mention the war in Europe or the war with Germany because he knew it would scare and worry the Americans and Congress, because both of these nations are known to be strong. Roosevelt also feared that Americans would not want to get involved in another World War. Americans had no interest in relieving the Great Depression because the depression started shortly after WWI, and there was a great fear that it could get worse. Roosevelt’s speech would not have made Americans believe war was the best option. The speech was propaganda by only giving one side of the story. The speech was strong and gave many good points of explaining what the Japanese had caused for Americans. media type="youtube" key="3VqQAf74fsE" height="390" width="480"

__**FDR meets Stalin: Yalta Conference Commences**__

In February 1945, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met to discuss the future of WWII, political freedom of European countries, and pave the way for future foreign relations. All three parties officially formed the United Nations, with eager consent. It was agreed that the Allies would divide the land. Churchill and Stalin wanted to capture Berlin; Dwight Eisenhower wanted to take his troops to Dresden, to guarantee the Soviets arrival. The men focused on the surrender of the Nazis, their reparations, demilitarization, and punishment. Poland, and its potential government, along with the division of Polish territory was discussed, along with the safe return of the prisoners of war. Roosevelt was a strong proponent of democracy, naturally, but some reports about FDR's lucidity are being brought to life: is Roosevelt capable of doing his job? Speculations like that are only being fueled by his agreement to have the Soviets spread farther and farther into Asia. Will this create some sort of Soviet Bloc? Only time will tell. @http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3819

__**Harry S. Truman Takes Office!**__ After 82 days of vice presidency, Harry Truman is set to fill Franklin Delano Roosevelt's shoes as president. "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties," Says Truman. Optimism is something he will probably need to tackle the obstacles FDR has been struggle with, or creating. There's a whisper among officials about an atomic bomb- but only speculation. As Americans we must wait and see the development of project!

The Great Depression was by far the worst economic incident in American history. Many Americans lost their jobs, homes, and, in rare cases, their lives to starvation. America needed something to take it out of this horrible depression. And who rose to the occasion? The man himself, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His "new deal" set up many economic programs to revitalize and restore the economy of the United states. While the "new deal" did very little to lower unemployment rates, FDR still boosted morale in the United States with the promise of taking the United States out of the depression. Also, the GDP steadily increased. It was not until 1941 when unemployment dropped below 10% and began a much faster decrease, reaching its lowest point at 1.2% in 1944. While FDR's New Deal might not have solved the Great Depression, it restored hope in many of us Americans, a great effect in and of itself.
 * __FDR and The Great Depression: Remembering his achievements__**

FDR fun facts!

· FDR was the first president to speak on television · He was the first president to have a presidential aircraft · He was the first president to fly in an airplane · FDR was in office longer than any other president · He was the first president whose mother was allowed to vote for him. · FDR got permission to build a swimming pool and a movie theater in the White House

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