The U.S. At War: Man of the Year

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In 1933 U.S. citizens who had been beaten by the hopelessness of the Depression were electrified by the words and actions of the man who said that the wheels could turn, that the good life could flourish, that all groups in the U.S. could work together in a cause bigger than any one of them. But the hopelessness they had felt then was nothing compared to the hopelessness that was felt by millions over the world, in the year 1941. The relief and release that U.S. citizens felt in 1933, when the President broke the paralysis that had gripped them, was nothing compared to the lifting of heads all over the world when the power and might of the U.S. was thrown into the war. Once he told the people of the U.S.: "This generation has a rendezvous with destiny." Now there could be no mistaking the fact. He was the man of 1941 because the country he leads stands for the hope of the world.