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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Franklin Roosevelt - Brief Article

The other major influence on Christianity at that time was Franklin Roosevelt. In a role largely unacknowledged by historians, he served as spiritual leader of his country, or at least as the most notable exponent of its dominant religious beliefs. And he saw the New Deal as applied Christianity. On New Year's Eve, 1939, Roosevelt, before reading d Christmas Carol to his family gathered around the White House fireside, spoke to the nation by radio. He quoted the Sermon...