1936’s Promise of Peace: Roosevelt on Campaign
In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt left the White House in August 1936 for a campaign trip to Chautauqua, New York, he was both riding high and running scared. After four years of frenetic efforts to get the country’s economy going again, he was immensely popular in the urban North. As he made his way through cities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, the turnout was so huge that, the New York Times reported, ‘motorcycle police had to use bodily force to open lanes through which the official procession of automobiles could pass’.
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