FDR was a progressive Democrat who firmly believed in the power of a strong Central government to solve the problems of the day.
This differed from Coolidge and Hoover who believed in the power of business to solve problems and saw a limited role for government.
The common answer for this is that it is a joke. He was singing that because he was singing a few bars. This is a wordplay on the word bar of soap, and also on the fact that bars in music are <span>a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of </span><span>beats, so it's a pun actually.</span>
Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
They made use of the resources around them is one reason why early clans of hunter-gatherers are not considered civilizations. When you talk about civilizations, it means that people are building something or forming a society for development.