1933 was dark all over the world.
Japan was already in Manchuria, and the League of Nations was dying in
Geneva.
In Germany, the Reichstag fire was history, so was the Weimar Republic.
In Italy, Benito Mussolini had translated a people’s search for security into
savage conquest.
In rich, fertile America, fear and uncertainty lay heavy upon the land.
Franklin D. Roosevelt stood beside Chief Justice Heughes on the steps of the
Capitol on that raw afternoon of March 4th, and a nation with 15 million
unemployed…listened.
