FDR Threatened to Impose Dictatorship
David Beito • Friday, October 31, 2008
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration speech in 1933 is now most remembered for the line, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” At the time, however, this newsreel did not even include that line. Instead, it highlights Roosevelt’s not so subtle threat to seize emergency powers if Congress does not submit to his plans.
