FDR: Image and Reality

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. (more…)

