"Together we cannot fail."

Click on the links below to hear President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address and his first Fireside Chat entitled, "The Banking Crisis." Eunice Waymon would have been eleven days old on March 4, 1933 when President Roosevelt delivered his First Inaugural Address. Eight days later on March 12 President Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside Chat entitled, "The Banking Crisis." Listening to President Roosevelt's words helps put the late winter/ early spring of 1933 into a larger national context. Eunice's father, John Waymon would later take advantage of Civilian Conservation Corps programs in the Tryon area that were part of President Roosevelt's New Deal for America.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstinaugural.html

"In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment." President Frankin Delano Roosevelt, from the First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstfiresidechat.html