Fleet Admiral Roosevelt

Author says: what if FDR's father had backed down over his graduate education? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).

arriving in Washington to take up the post of Chief of Naval Operations Franklin D. Roosevelt fulfilled a dream that he had cherished ever since enrolling at Annapolis instead of his father's preference of Harvard.

Born into a fabulously wealthy aristocratic family in Hyde Park, New York fifty-one years before, Please click the

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But it was the tabloid headlines of William Randolph Hearst that raised the family name to true celebrity status when his fifth cousin died at the head of a small regiment in Cuba in 1898.

Of course FDR would ultimately confront a threat from an island posing a much greater danger to America. And an incident much bigger than the blowing up of the USS Maine.

But on this day in 1933, those fears were far into the future, and his immedate focus was to drive Naval reform in his "First Hundred Days". Ironically, for a man with no shortage of funds, his priority now was to save money on behalf of a Federal Government that was tottering on the brink of bankruptcy.

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