Roosevelt realized that his appearance at the convention was unusual and unprecedented. He wanted that to be a symbol of how he intended to lead the country if he was chosen to be president. He wanted to offer the hope of new ways of thinking to the American people where Hoover had offered little beyond the same solutions that had not been working to that point.
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Rizal was not an American-sponsored hero because it was the Filipinos who chose Rizal as our national hero not the Americans. It is true that the Americans suggested Rizal but they were not the one who chose him.
The Americans chose Jose Rizal to be the national hero because the Americans wants us to follow Dr. Rizal's values they want us to be calm when there are problems and stuff, unlike Bonifacio who is like on a rampage mode everytime ;)
because of how they chose to run there campaigns right they way the people wanted
They chose Jose Rizal instead of Andres Bonifacio because he fought the Spaniards not by his sword but by his words. He used his intelligence to free the Filipinos.
So you want to know about Jose Rizal. Well his help to the Philippines was that he used his poems and sent them to the Spanyards. This was when the Spanyards had taken control of the Philippines.