The presidential election of 1932 was unquestionably about change. The people desired it. The candidates promised it. What was unknown was what that change would look like should the major candidate of the hour, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, actually win.
On Sept. 23, 1932, in a pre-election speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, one could catch a glimpse of just how different the America of the future would look from the America of the past should Roosevelt take over.
"The task of statesmanship has always been the redefining of these rights (life and liberty) in terms of a changing and growing social order," Roosevelt said. "New conditions impose new requirements upon government and those who conduct government."
Friday, July 22, 2011
The Theology of Social Security
Patheos reports:
