In theory, rainwater is like distilled-water*, but it gets its compositions largely by dissolving particulate materials in the atmosphere especially the troposphere - when droplets of water nucleate on atmospheric particulates, and secondarily by dissolving gasses from the atmosphere.
Updated May 29, 2016. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, led the country both during the Great Depression and World War II. He was charismatic and innovative at a time when the United States needed exactly that kind of leadership.
During the majority of the Great Depression, the President of the United States of America was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. However, the Great Depression began in 1929, when Herbert Hoover was in office. Franklin Roosevelt did not assume the presidency until 1933. Continue Reading.