During President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first visit to Los Angeles as the President of the United States, he toured the city by motorcade. At the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, he addressed the crowd from his car with a speech rallying behind the “liberal spirit” of California, commemorating how “no state has a finer record in the great task of putting the strong arm of Government behind the less fortunate members of society.” The rally drew in a crowd of 70,000 people.
FDR had won the popular vote of the election with 57% of the votes and swept the electoral votes, receiving over 470. Besides the Coliseum, FDR was hosted with open arms in California, including a parade, events at the Hollywood Bowl and an evening of entertainment hosted by Jack Warner of Warner Bros, who later went on to produce movies supporting FDR’s policies.