Video: 'PBS American Experience The Kennedys: The Father 1900 - 1961' (Aug. 21, 1936, at 23:16)

(Friday, August 21, 1936) — In a book entitled I’m For Roosevelt, published today, Joseph P. Kennedy, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, presented arguments for why businessmen should support the New Deal and President Franklin Roosevelt for re-election.