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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial National Memorial

The national memorial dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, lies about half way between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Its four open-air rooms represent each of the ...

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Jan. 21, 1933 President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed an immense crowd a this crossing from his railroad car and promised "to put Muscle Shoals back on the map." He then toured the idle U.S,. Nitrate Plant No. 2 and ...

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

The Great Depression 1929-1941

The depression was world-wide. In the U.S., the banking system collapsed and 12.8 million people were unemployed. Hardest hit were youth, minorities, the elderly, and workers in the consumer durables industries. There was widespread hunger ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1954. To the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a great American. President Roosevelt visited Cambridge on October 26, 1935, to participate in the dedication of the Emerson C. Harrington Bridge. This stack was removed from the U.S.S. Potomac, which carried ...

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On this spot Sept. 5, 1938 stood Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"It is the privilege of some of us to dream dreams, and some of us to carry out the dreams of others"

Marker is on Market Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Makes a Whistle-stop in Olat

"I am glad to get into Kansas again..."

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ("FDR") told the audience in Syracuse, Kansas in 1936. The president was returning to Washington, D.C. after a campaign trip by train to Colorado. When he reached Olathe at ...

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In Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

In Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

1882–1945.

In September, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called his friend, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, to the White House and asked the Justice to remember the wish he then expressed:

“If any memorial is ...

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