NOMINEE: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
NOMINATED BY: Al Gore, Vice President of the U.S.
My office sits right next door to the
office once occupied by this former Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, one of my true heroes and one of the greatest champions of
hardworking families this nation has ever known. In electing
Roosevelt President, Americans turned away from a government by
the few and for the few. F.D.R. lifted America out of the depths
of the Depression and gave working families the chance to be
self-reliant by opening the doors to education, economic
opportunity and home ownership wider than ever before. And while
making an America that was strong at home, Roosevelt built a
consensus for leadership and engagement in the world that still
shapes the way the U.S. conducts itself among the family of
nations. More than any other person, Roosevelt made this the
American century.
--Al Gore, Vice President of the U.S.
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