"I have started out on the tasks that lie ahead," the nominee said, adding, "Let it also be symbolic that in so doing, I broke traditions." Roosevelt pledged to offer "a New Deal for the American people," boosting the progressive policy that would define his presidency.
"The founders seem remote today... but their presidencies provide an instructive measuring rod for 21st-century incumbents," writes the historian in Patriot Presidents, emphasizing the relevance of early American presidencies to modern leadership.
As American liberty grew from theory to practice, they fought to bring the 'Spirit of '76'—a patriotic sentiment that indicated 'their determination to create new institutions appropriate for a republic,' says Leuchtenburg—to the daily work of running a new nation.
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