Elizebeth took her daughter to hear FDR’s inaugural speech on March 4, 1933, a viciously cold morning. They walked to the Capitol from their house. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” FDR said, focusing on his plans to restart the economy. He did not mention Adolf Hitler or the Nazi Party, who had taken power that January, deploying mobs of men in brown uniforms and swastika armbands to crush dissent. The international press covered him like a normal leader. Many Germans did not think he would really do the things he had said he would do.
