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Alright, this is the same timeline as before, except modified for betterness.

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A world without FDR
The nation was in the throws of depression and the people were looking for hope. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the man they put their hope in. He easily achieved victory over the highly unpopular progressive republican incumbent, Herbert Hoover. He has big plans and the desire for power to full fill his big promises.

February 15th, 1933 will be a day that will live in infamy. The President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was in Miami, Florida. Roosevelt delivers a short speech at Bay Front Park in front of 25,000 people. The crowd cheers the President to be, but soon those cheers will turn to shrieks of terror. From the shadows of the crowd, an angered Italian immigrant by the name of Giuseppe Zangara pulled out a pistol and fired 5 shots at Roosevelt. The first two shots miss. The third shot hit Roosevelt in head, and the 4th and 5th hit him in the chest. The assassin was tackled as the President-Elect fell to the ground.

The crowd goes into a panic, while the assassin is trampled to death. Police are called in to quell the riot. Roosevelt is rushed to a nearby hospital, but to no avail. He is pronounced dead less then an hour after he is shot. News papers and radio stations broadcast this across the country “Roosevelt is Dead”. Speaker of the House and Vice President-Elect John Nance Garner is made aware of the situation an hour after Roosevelt is pronounced dead. President Hoover is alerted of the situation. He is reported to have said “I weep for my country, and I weep for democracy”.

The Proper arrangements are made. On February 20th there is a funeral in Albany, New York for the slain Roosevelt. On March 4th however, the nation inaugurated a new man into the position of commander and chief. Roosevelt’s southern running mate, John Nance Garner, was sworn in as the 32nd President of the United States. He was not the man that the his Party had chosen, but he was the man they had now.

In his inaugural address, he laid out his plan for the nations economic recovery: repeal of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Abolishment of the 18th Amendment, and building and investment projects in rural areas. His most famous quote from this address was “With God and Government on our side, we shall prosper”.
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