United States Coast Guard Academy - Tide Rips Yearbook (New London, CT)

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% v;- Marry S. Zruman PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

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franklin ' Ddam Koosevdt LA ' lE PRESIDENT OF 1 HE INI lEl) MATES Our nation will nt cr lorgct Frnnklin D. RodscacIi, 1ki iliiii - sccond pri-siikiii. Elcctetl to the highest office in the nation in i() ;a vhcn the couiiti) was in the midst ol its Avorst depression and the people were lull ot doiiijt, he initiated industrial relornis Avhich gave nevv hope and brought new prosperit) ' . Gratelul xoters reelected him by an o er ' heliriing majority in 1936. War came to the world during Roosevelt ' s second term. Fight- ing the vvishes of many Americans, he brought the nation to a state of semi-readiness and offered aid to belligeient nations which were to become our brothers in arms. Earnest Iv desirous of keeping out of war if possible, the President offered his neu- trality proclamation in 1 () ' ;(). Fioni that time on. the Coast Giiaid was virtiiallv in the war. . preccilent was broken ivhen the President was reelected a third time in 19)0. In 1941 lie phidd the Coast Guard in the naw department. Fiiialh. [apaii loKcd him into war against the .Axis. He guided the nation to ictor o er Italv. nearh to victory o er Germany and wiA on the road to beating Japan. His dc ' aih in Apiil. i(|p,. was nioiiiiied b men of all civilized nations. A smitr tit ifnt iiihrr. m I ' nsidiiiliiil tiilil Ml) - Fl.OlVlJi. noil ' ti rultii.