This study examines Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fourinaugural addresses to find out the continuity and changeof American traditional value, namely individualism. Thisstudy is purely a library research based on textualinterpretation of those inaugural addresses in revealing anycontinuity and change of American traditional valuementioned above. Applying an interdisciplinary andholistic approach, the writer attempts to analyze thecontinuity and change of American individualism valuesfound in those inaugural addresses in the socio-cultural,historical and biographical contexts. This study begins withintroductory notes, and then goes on to a discussion of theorigins and significance of American individualism. Thenext part is a discussion on the continuity and change ofAmerican individualism found in those inauguraladdresses, both textually and contextually. The study findsthat there are continuity and change in the interpretation ofAmerican individualism expressed in those inauguraladdresses. These continuity and change are inevitable theresult of the dynamic in economy, politic, and socio-culturalin America during the thirties and early forties.