President Roosevelt was inaugurated this month. The nation is hoping that with a new president and new ideas, our national depression will improve. However, some citizens are worried that with Roosevelt's diagnosis of polio, he will not be able to restart the economy and change the nation the way he has said he would. Personally, I hope FDR turns things around for the rural areas so farmers can start producing crops to provide food for the people. We still have not migrated with the other Okies to California and I am glad because no matter how horrible conditions are out here, I do not want to leave my home. Farming is the only thing my father has known and if Roosevelt can improve situations for farmers, I think the economy will begin to get better with the starvation percentage decreasing.
August 26, 1933
Since Roosevelt began his presidency, he has used his wife to travel to towns and meet with the people. Eleanor, his wife, has become known as his eyes and ears. His polio causes his travel and leaving home to be limited so in order to reach out to the public personally, he began to use our new technology of radio very wisely. They are known as fireside chats. FDR gives regular evening speeches to the people over the radio in order to share his presidential plans and updates of what has been happening with the government. My parents always make sure we are silent at 8 p.m. because that is when the president begins his broadcast.
Last night, I heard Roosevelt talk about his New Deal plans. I couldn't understand all of it, but I know he wants to help the elderly and disabled with a new social security act that will raise taxes. Also, he wants to use this new deal to send people back to work. Roosevelt seems to have many great ideas and I hope he can put this country back to the way I remember it before everything got so bad.
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