"I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels."

That candor and the decision to follow was clear: the federal government will take the responsibility, in conjunction with the state, county, and municipal governments to bring the United States from the depression, into later what became history's most powerful and productive economy. Roosevelt did not rely on special gimmicks or political tricks. Rather, he grounded his campaigns and his presidency in the "forgotten man," the poor, rural, and neglected citizens, who under his leadership would become the unstoppable gauntlet to defeat the depression and the nazis in World War II. It was not fear which drove Roosevelt, for "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It was not the directing of America's anger and pointing the political finger in the other direction, but rather the "understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory." Roosevelt won the hearts and minds of his fellow countrymen, not his constituency.

Therefore the Franklin Roosevelt Legacy Democratic Club finds it beyond necessary to revive the true American tradition, represented by FDR and those who fought alongside him, to intervene into today's threat of globally extended asymmetric warfare and depression conditions. The United States must once again become a beam of light in the darkness and beacon of hope for the generations to come.