1936 Madison Square Garden speech 1936 Madison Square Garden speech The 1936 Madison Square Garden speech was a speech given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 31, 1936, three days before that year's presidential election. In the speech, Roosevelt pledged to continue the New Deal and criticized those who, in his view, were putting personal gain and politics over national economic recovery from the Great Depression. The speech was Roosevelt's last campaign speech before the election. Roosevelt had to wait around 15 minutes for the enthusiastic crowd at Madison Square Garden to calm down before commencing his speech. Most of the speech outlined
I Wish I Could Have Been There I Wish I Could Have Been There "I Wish I Could Have Been There" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in April 1994 as the fourth and final single from his album "Solid Ground". It peaked at number 4 in the United States, and number 21 in Canada. Anderson co-wrote this song with Kent Robbins. The narrator wishes that he could have been around his family more often for many things. Deborah Evans Price, of "Billboard" magazine gave the song a mixed review, saying that while Anderson "squeezes the emotional