FDR’s Other ‘Day Of Infamy’: When The US Government Seized All Citizens’ Gold – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed*

December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered as, in the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “a date that will live in infamy.” Another infamous date is April 5, 1933—the day that FDR ordered the seizure of the private gold holdings of the American people. By attacking innocent citizens, he bombed the...