Fdr Attitude

FDR’s strong-willed attitude allowed him to become a great leader. For example “In 1935 he passed his own Revenue Act-shamelessly dubbed the ‘soak the rich’ tax - on gifts, estates, and corporate and investment income, demonstrating his egalitarian commitments. Prodded by the townsend plan and old-age pension agitation, he engineered the passage of the Social Security Act, providing an income floor for the elderly as well as the unemployed, the widowed and the orphaned” (Greenberg 1). Through the Revenue Act, FDR paved the way for his Social Security Act, showing his determination to assist the elderly, unemployed, and orphaned. The reason this proves FDR to be a strong leader is because he wanted to bring change to aid the weak, and the reason it takes strong-will to aid

Afterwards, During FDR’s second inaugural address in 1937, in the midst of a crippling nationwide depression, he said,"I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. [...] 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 too little" (Roosevelt para. 29-30). Through this quote, FDR expressed his tenacious attitude because even though he was up against a great depression, he was determined to fix the problems of the poor nation, no easy task. Any admirable leader should have the ability to persevere through a troubling period because it proves that leader is strong and fit to manage a situation. Regardless of the evidence of FDR’s determination, others believed that FDR was wrong in his reforms because he brought sweeping changes to the government's business as usual attitude., However the changes that FDR made had positive effects for America. For example, “Had the Hundred Days swiftly brought about economic recovery, a return to business as usual might have meant politics as usual as well. In that scenario it is doubtful that any of those landmark reforms would have come to