From August 1921 to early 1928, Franklin Roosevelt devoted himself to treating his disability, a sudden paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome, diagnosed at the time as polio. He helped the others disabled by funding a hydrotherapy center in Georgia. He overcame the disease by running for governor of New York in the fall of 1928. In public, he walked with a cane had a helper; in private he used a wheelchair. On 6 November 1928, Franklin Roosevelt won the election for New York Governor by a narrow margin in the Mars-Saturn period (from May 2, 1927 to October 30, 1929). He was 46 years old. ...

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On 4 November 1930, Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected Governor of New York in the Mars-Moon period (from October 30, 1929 to December 1, 1931). He was 48 years old. This second term began after the stock market crash of 1929. As governor, he has managed to mitigate its disastrous consequences through a vigorous policy. His political opponents called him a socialist (which was a pejorative term for them) because he organized the protection of the unemployed through direct financial aids. He did not trust an economy of free competition without any constraints in return. He was able to improve wo...

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On 8 November 1932, Franklin Roosevelt won the election for the U.S. presidency by a large majority in the Mars-Sun period (From December 1st, 1931 to July 1st, 1933). He was 50 years old. This campaign took place at the beginning of the Great Depression caused by the Wall Street crash of 1929. Franklin Roosevelt proposed the New Deal, to tackle economic problems, the reduction of bureaucracy and the abolition of Prohibition. His opponent was an advocate of non-interference policy, the conviction that the law of the market should dominate. Franklin Roosevelt had protected the unemployed from p...

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On November 10, 1936, Franklin Roosevelt won a second election for the U.S. presidency with an additional 5 million votes (compared to 1932) in the period Jupiter-Saturn (from October 31, 1936 to May 2, 1939). He was 54 years old.From 1934 onwards, Franklin Roosevelt instituted its policy towards a second New Deal. After reforming the banking system, he decided to compensate for the failure of the private economy with numerous reforms to protect the poorest. He created the Public Works Administration which employed up to 3.3 million people to build roads, bridges and public buildings. The cent...

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Ronald Reagan was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG an American union of actors) in 1946. He had been on its executive committee since 1941. Then he was elected for seven more one-year terms as SAG president. He had to manage SAG during major crises such as the improvement of television rights for actors and also the period of the Red Scare led by Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1950 to 1954 when many personalities were accused of communist sympathies.Ronald Reagan always affirmed his support for the American society and its democratic principles and never hid the fact that he ref...

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On 4 November 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th President of the United States during the Saturn-Venus period (from March 7, 1980 to November 5, 1980). He was 69 years old. He chose George Bush as his Vice-President. Ronald Reagan presented the program Republicans: promise to reduce taxes, strengthen states’ rights and weaken central government. He won with 50.7% of the vote (44 million) against Jimmy Carter (Democrat) who received only 41% (35.5 million), with 46% abstentions.His took office on January 20, 1981. On that day, while he was giving his inaugural speech in Washington, the...

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