CNN CNN Special Report January 10, 2022 02:17:00
Back on american dinner tables. >> today depression is a fading memory. >> roosevelt's insistence was that the only way to save democracy was to save the people who formed that democracy. >> finally, with the ramp-up to world war ii, the depression was over. the hate and demagoguery that tore at democracy in the 1930s gradually faded. and so did father coughlin. a threat from abroad revived patriotism and national unity. and so did franklin roosevelt's new deal. he used the tools of democracy to help save democracy. just ahead, while america was rising from the ashes of the depression, in ge...