Eleanor Roosevelt and Sara Roosevelt in the White House in Washington DC. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt with Sara Roosevelt, the mother of President Franklin Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt, an author, speaker, politician and an activist, knits in the White House. Sara Roosevelt, the wife of businessman James Roosevelt.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to farmers in Washington DC. A large number of farmers in the lawn of the White House. President Roosevelt stands in the balcony of the White House and addresses the audience. A group of dignitaries behind the President. A number of microphones fixed on a railing. President Roosevelt addresses the farmers. He calls the audience pretty good looking. He says he has a few members of the Congress in captivity with him referring to the members of the House Agriculture Committee behind him. He informs the farmers that those who are non-supporters of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) have been trying to mislead the people by lying about the farm program under which the U.S. was operating. The President says that each one of them should spread the fact that not a single program of the AAA plans the destruction of food crops in the United States in spite of what the people may read or hear.
Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest and a political leader, addresses the nation in Washington DC, United States. Father Coughlin speaks about the welfare of the Americans. He notes that congress must recapture its ability to coin and regulate the value of money. He indicates that active government control of the national currency is vital for continued recovery and elimination of financial ills and debts during the Great Depression.
The job recruits for President Roosevelt's Reforestation Program at Camp Roosevelt in Washington DC, United States, during the Great Depression. Three motor vehicles in which Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) recruits are taken to the camp site drive down a road . A vehicle and a few men on the road. Two other vehicles drive past. Men wait on the road. The vehicles move on. The recruits walk on a path. They unload material from a vehicle at the camp site on the Blue Ridge. Men stand in a line and pass the material. They start erecting tents at the site. They carry small logs of wood. Men stand under a covered area. A man peels potatoes. Few men seated on the ground help in cooking. Three men prepare food in the covered area.
The recruits under President Roosevelt's Reforestation Program at Camp Roosevelt in Washington DC, United States. Four men at the camp site work. A man cuts wood. Few men erect tents by fixing poles of the tents. The men in a group near a tent. Men walk into the tents built in a row. A man carries a mattress. A senior personnel stands near a tent and instructs the men. The men prepare their mattresses. They stand near the tents and stack materials.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a speech on Works Relief Program in Washington DC, United States (became the Works Progress Administration or W.P.A.). The President speaks standing in front of a number of microphones. He speaks about the Works Relief Program enacted by the Congress to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. He says that the first step is to put men and women on relief rolls. It is for the first time in five years that the relief rolls have declined in the winter months. He says that even though unemployment persists in the US, they have coined some remedial measures in which there are provisions to rule out future unemployment and to help those who are unemployed in the present emergency and the Work Relief Program helps to achieve this.
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