The Rich Progressive Legacy of FDR
Perhaps the key personal ingredient that propelled Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the ranks of the nation's and world's great leaders was his handling of adversity. Overcoming adversity is a hallmark of so many great achievers. In the political sphere it can serve as both an instructive and motivational shaping tool.
The Roosevelts were a Dutch aristocratic family that settled in New York's affluent Hudson Valley region. FDR had earned a law degree from Harvard. He followed along the same lines as his cousin President Theodore Roosevelt by securing as a young lawyer a position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Josephus Daniels in the Woodrow Wilson Administration.
A handsome, articulate, highly ambitious young aristocrat such as Roosevelt, a young man in a hurry in sprinting toward success, is bound to garner notice. With such notice comes opportunity.
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