You will prepare and submit a term paper on FDRs Political Gifts and Creative Leadership. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. Next, Roosevelt ran for governor of New York in 1928. His platform included that women and children need to work a maximum of 48 hours a week, that there should be 8 hour days, and an old-age pension scheme, along with handicap assistance. Once again, although Roosevelt was an underdog going into this campaign, he prevailed, winning by some 26,000 votes out of four million cast. While he was governor of New York, the Great Depression occurred with the stock market crash of 1929, and Roosevelt sought ways to minimize what occurred. To this end, he met with advisers, who told him that businesses should be regulated. At the same time, there was a great wealth inequality, as businesses were posting record profits, yet not sharing these profits with the workers, who were the drivers of the economy. Therefore, the underlying structural problems that Roosevelt sought to correct were the wealth inequality and lack of regulation on businesses and banks. He, therefore, put together a program that included progressive taxation, unemployment and health insurance, and a reduction in tariffs and taxes.

Roosevelt needed a platform for his ideas, which is where he was able to show more political gifts. Specifically, Roosevelt got the idea of talking to Americans on the radio. He found that the radio would be the best way to reach the people unfiltered. In his radio addresses, he informed the people that he was looking for bold ways to help the common man, which would, in turn, help the country, because the common man needed more purchasing power to drive the economic engine. This platform of bold ideas helped catapult him to the Democratic nomination for President in 1932, and he took the unprecedented step of accepting the nomination in person, by traveling to Chicago.&nbsp.&nbsp.