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FDR: "Let Me Warn You" (1936) [History Repeats Itself]

Speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt from his re-election campaign in 1936. It's a warning about his opposition Republican Alf Landon and the rhetoric coming from the Republican Party, their party platform and campaign. Roosevelt guided our country through two of the worst chapters in American history, WWII and The Great Depression. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. President Roosevelt (like President Obama today) took office during a time of devastation to the US economy. As a result of reckless behavior by bankers, the Stock Market Crash of1929 is listed as one of the primary causes of The Great Depression. This led to high unemployment, banks failing and a reduction in purchasing across the board (which furthered the nation's economic woes). During Roosevelt's first term he instituted some 15 major legislative acts as part of his New Deal, these included bills such as the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and the creation of the Social Security System. During his 1936 re-election campaign Republican Alf Landon argued that Roosevelt and his New Deal was not good for America and that relief efforts should be run by the states. If you listen to FDR in this one minute excerpt from his speech, you'd swear he was addressing the problems we are facing today and the rhetoric President Obama has been confronted with throughout the 2012 campaign from Governor Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. [TEXT OF EXCERPT FROM SPEECH:] "Let me warn you, and let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion that says 'Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die. 'We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything'