Memorial honors our country's
longest serving President.
Elected during the Great Depression,
FDR said, "The only thing we have
to fear is fear itself,"
FDR First inaugural address
on March 4, 1933.
Franklin's wife, Eleanor, traveled
around the country & reported
back on the conditions she found
during the depth of the Depression.
Eleanor taught school, wrote a newspaper column and books, traveled to visit the troops in the Pacific during World War II and was named a US Representative to the United Nations in 1945.
"They [who] seek to establish
government based on regimentation
of all human beings by a handful
of rulers.. call this a new order.
It is not new & it is not order."
FDR at the White House
Correspondents Association
Dinner on March 15, 1941
President Roosevelt prepared
leaders to chart the course of
the war & planned the post
war world.
FDR at Chautauqua, New York on August 14, 1936
The test of our progress is not
whether we add more to the
abundance of those who have
much, it is whether we provide
enough for those who have too little.
FDR quote from second inaugural
address on January 20, 1937
People across the United States
listened to President Roosevelt's
Americans felt that they knew
the President & that he knew
their hopes, fears.
"Men & nature must work
hand in hand, the throwing
out of balance of the
resources of nature throws out
of balance also the lives
of man."
This sprawling monument documents President Roosevelt's guidance across two decades of economic crisis and global war. It's beautifully done.
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