He was on a quest for Gold
While on a quest for gold, Juan Ponce de León founded the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico and landed on the mainland of North America, a region he dubbed “Florida.”
This is a citation from Frenklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address in 1933. The Situation in the US in those days were challenging, mainly because of the Great Depression and its consequences, and because previous presidents did not manage to tackle that problem as well as they should. Unemployment was more than 20% and there was a widespread poverty.
So his words were a sign that he intends to be direct and open with the people in the US. He also wanted to calm the frustrated ones, and to act swiftly in order to show his decisiveness. So the best strategy was to calm the millions of american people who were quite close to the state of panic and distrupt.
<span>The dog had been conditioned to salivate because food had been presented so many consecutive times in the past that it had learned to associated the tuning fork with the presentation of the food. When the fork was sounded even without bringing food out, the dog still is under the assumption that the two stimuli (fork and the food) will be paired, and subsequently began to salivate.</span>