In the relatively short span of 25 years from his first national campaign in 1920 to his death in the first year of his fourth term as President in 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered hundreds of speeches, many of them masterly orations.
He could be dazzlingly informal, imperiously statesmanlike, witheringly sarcastic, stern, and serious, and when the occasion permitted, outright f.
Perhaps the finest speechmaker in American history, FDR was a consummate expert at reading his audience.
In the relatively short span of 25 years from his first national campaign in 1920 to his death in the first year of his fourth term as President in 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered hundreds of speeches, many of them masterly orations
