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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,284 posts)
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 08:38 AM Nov 2021

FDR also got personally involved in the infrastructure project of Washington National Airport

FDR encouraged the idea of basing the design of main National Airport terminal (1941) on nearby Mount Vernon as a tribute to George Washington:

FDR also got personally involved in infrastructure project of National Airport DC ..., opened eighty years ago this year—he also watched the first {plane} (DC-3) officially landing on its runway:




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FDR also got personally involved in the infrastructure project of Washington National Airport (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 OP
Be loving everything about FDR! Tomconroy Nov 2021 #1
You'd like walking around the area of the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 #2
We live in the world that FDR created. Tomconroy Nov 2021 #3

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,284 posts)
2. You'd like walking around the area of the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 09:06 AM
Nov 2021

in downtown DC. Evidence of him is everywhere.

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