“The only thing we have to fear,” FDR told his audience—recalling the opening seven words of a sentence as renowned as any ever spoken at a first inaugural—“is the obsequious yielding to his Nazi friends by Charles A. Lindbergh, the shameless courting by the president of the world’s greatest democracy of a despot responsible for innumerable criminal deeds and acts of savagery, a cruel and barbaric tyrant unparalleled in the chronicle of man’s misdeeds. But we Americans will not accept a Hitler-dominated America.
