Comparing the Inauguration Speeches of the Two Presidents, Ronald Reagan, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We have two presidents, one Republican and one Democratic. Because of this, their inaugurations should have a few difference, because being different parties, that normally means they have different ways/beliefs of solving problems.
Starting with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration speech, he speaks a lot about the economy problems. He understands that jobs are very difficult to obtain, that taxes are rising, inflation is becoming a much worse problem, and that even having free money to spend is difficult. From his speech, he lists many ways that HE would fix it, firstly, starting with jobs, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously."It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great -- greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources." And he also states how he would help better land use, and the overbalance in industrial centers, "the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products, and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities that have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it."
As for President Ronald Reagan's Inauguration speech, he really stresses that we need a change of government, inflation is at its worst in american history, and taxes are continuously rising. These presidents, both Reagan and FDR were put in situations where the U.S economy was not doing the best, so they were obviously going to point out in their inaugurations that they would fix it, however, it is the ways of which they will fix it and if they actually follow through with their plan to fix it that determines which president was really "Better." Reagan wants to fix this economic problem by this, "Administration’s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunities for all Americans with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work." He basically says the solution is giving all Americans equal opportunity, with no racial discrimination, and put ALL Americans back to work. Does this ring a bell? Yes, FDR's speech was basically about the same thing! From FDR's speech, he says, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously." So, both of them had similar intentions, however, the only main thing that differed was the way they intended to solve them, and their word choices.
Starting with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration speech, he speaks a lot about the economy problems. He understands that jobs are very difficult to obtain, that taxes are rising, inflation is becoming a much worse problem, and that even having free money to spend is difficult. From his speech, he lists many ways that HE would fix it, firstly, starting with jobs, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously."It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great -- greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources." And he also states how he would help better land use, and the overbalance in industrial centers, "the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products, and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities that have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it."
As for President Ronald Reagan's Inauguration speech, he really stresses that we need a change of government, inflation is at its worst in american history, and taxes are continuously rising. These presidents, both Reagan and FDR were put in situations where the U.S economy was not doing the best, so they were obviously going to point out in their inaugurations that they would fix it, however, it is the ways of which they will fix it and if they actually follow through with their plan to fix it that determines which president was really "Better." Reagan wants to fix this economic problem by this, "Administration’s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunities for all Americans with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work." He basically says the solution is giving all Americans equal opportunity, with no racial discrimination, and put ALL Americans back to work. Does this ring a bell? Yes, FDR's speech was basically about the same thing! From FDR's speech, he says, "Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously." So, both of them had similar intentions, however, the only main thing that differed was the way they intended to solve them, and their word choices.