In the early spring of 1933, having endured more than three years of the economic depression, the defeated citizens of America crowded together and looked to one man for hope. This man looked upon the people of his demoralized nation and lifted them up. Franklin Delano Roosevelt felt his nation’s pain, he felt their damaged prides, he knew of the struggles they had faced, because, he too, had faced them. Roosevelt had a plan to bring his country out of the dark and back to economic greatness. He would become the shoulder that every person in the United States cried on. Roosevelt was strong when the rest of the country was breaking. On March 4, 1933 Roosevelt was sworn into office and inspired his nation to get up, brush off the dust that had settled over them, and keep moving forward. Roosevelt did not sugar coat anything in his first Inaugural Address to the United States of America. In doing this, he established his ethos, letting America know that he was going to be upfront and honest with them. “Let me…show more content… Roosevelt addresses of the confidence of the nation, speaking of what confidence thrives on and how the United States does not currently have those things. “Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.” Using epistrophe, Roosevelt conveys an assertive feeling, telling America to get their act together if they ever want to gain that confidence
