Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s

FROM Descent into Slavery by Des Griffin (Emissary Publications, 1980), pp 133-34:

In 1932, at the height of the International Banker created Great Depression and amidst an unprecedented media campaign that portrayed [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt as a ‘knight in shining armor,’ the New York Governor was manipulated into the position of being the Democratic nomination for president.

To hear Roosevelt and his backers tell their story along the campaign trail, one could have been excused for believing that the governor would make a great president. The ‘image’ presented throughout the campaign was of a man who would defend our nation’s sovereignty and work diligently in the defense of the freedoms and rights that had contributed so mightily in bringing the United States to a position of dominance on the world scene.

What the American voters were ‘sold’ and what they received were two entirely different things! The ‘Big Boys’ in the City and on Wall Street had not made a mistake. Roosevelt was their man. He was dedicated to doing the will of those who had so carefully manufactured and fostered his false ‘conservative’ image and installed him in the Oval Office.

The fact that FDR was firmly ‘in the pocket’ of the International Money Monopolists unfolds with unmistakable clarity when we examine his record. As Professor Antony C. Sutton says: “Perhaps it always makes good politics to appear before the American electorate as a critic, if not an outright enemy of the international banking fraternity. Without question Franklin D. Roosevelt, his supporters and biographers portray FDR as. . . wielding the sword of righteous vengeance against the robber barons in the skyscrapers of downtown Manhattan. For instance, the Roosevelt Presidential campaign of 1932, consistently attacked 134 DESCENT INTO SLAVERY? Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover for his alleged association with international bankers and for pandering to the demands of big business. . . “

The pervasive historical image of FDR, is one of a President fighting on behalf of the little guy, the man-in-the-street, in the midst of unemployment and financial depression brought about by big business allied with Wall Street. We shall find, on the contrary, that this image distorts the truth to the extent that it portrays FDR as an enemy of Wall Street; this is simply because most historians probing into Wall Street misdeeds have been reluctant to apply the same standards of probity to Franklin D. Roosevelt as to other political leaders. What is a sin for Herbert Hoover, or even 1928 Democratic Presidential candidate Al Smith, is presumed a virtue in the case of FDR. Roosevelt was a creation of Wall Street, an integral part of the New York banking fraternity, and had the pecuniary interests of the financial establishment very much at heart” (Wall Street and FDR, pp. 14, 15, 17)

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