The “Confidence” President: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Film

Abstract

A newspaper cartoon from the first hundred days of the Roosevelt administration, which is on prominent display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, portrays FDR as the engineer of a train called “US Recovery ‘New Deal’ Special.” Strong-jawed and determined, the new president looks boldly down the tracks before him. His left hand, encased in thick railroad gloves, is on the lever, while his right is clenched for action. With Uncle Sam cheering him on from trackside, a confident FDR looks ready to drive that train right out of the Great Depression. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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