Ninety-two years ago today, on March 4, 1933 (February 9, 1933), Franklin Roosevelt took office as President of the United States. On March 4, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) took office as President of the United States (March 4, 1933 - January 20, 1937). He broke with American convention and was re-elected president three times in a row. When Roosevelt first became president, he was in the midst of a general depression following the economic crisis that broke out in the capitalist world in 1929. Roosevelt proposed a series of "New Deal" measures to promote the connection between monopoly capital and the state. Diplomatically, he proposed the "Good Neighbor Policy", which tried to ease relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America. In World War II, the United States participated in the Anti-Fascist Alliance. On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt passed away.