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 erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives building. I don’t care what it is made of, whether limestone, or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain without ornamentation, with the simple carving, ‘In Memory Of ___________________’.”
A small group of living associates of the President, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial.
Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth Street, NW on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
