Delano Roosevelt Dbq

Franklin Delano Roosevelt handled the insinuations that he was a tired old man with action. FDR did realize his health was in critical condition and that he needed rest and relaxation but felt he had an obligation to the American people. Remarkably, Roosevelt toured the five boroughs of New York in an open car on a rainy and cold October day. FDR wanted to prove that he was in good health and used the tour of his home state to prove so. In reality, the tour was painful for the President and they would have to stop often to let him rest and warm up. The President gave various political political speeches and also toured areas of New England, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania (Glass). The Roosevelt administration made Roosevelt appear he was not
in pain when in fact he actually was but that did not stop the campaign from lying about the President's true conditions. The President's physician issued a statement that there was "nothing wrong organically with him at all... He's prefectly O.K." (Boller). This was a cleverly orchestrated facade to make the President look capable of the job. In response to the REpublican campaign Roosvelt states, " You know, I am actually four years older, which ... seems to annoy some people. In fact... there are millions of Americans who are more than eleven years older than when we started to clear up the mess that was dumped into our laps in 1933" (Boller). This is a convincing statement by Roosevelt that there was nothing wrong with him at all after serving an already exhausting twelve years in office which sparked a great deabte of the President's personal matters and the American people.