Fireside Studies: students learn about the man who got us out of The Great Depression
January 19, 2012 7:33 am | Filed Under: Departments
Teheran, Iran FDR aired self-confidence and enlightenment, as he sits with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. With polio, he still sits cross-legged and straight. (Image Credit: Photo Courtesy of Pars Times)

From Navy commissioner to a president with polio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a man who was given a job, and got it done. Fighting polio with intense therapy and leg exercises to show the country he was a strong leader, and he was.
Entering presidency during a time when most Americans were lucky if they could turn a car into a house, he placed his firmest ideals in place at the start, giving us the best new start a man who could not even wiggle his toes could.
Stuck in a wheelchair, yet able to place his mind in all places, he knew what was best for an out of business bank and a war-torn Eastern Europe. Holding the complete respect of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, he maneuvered his ideas into the heads of all leaders.