Only 3 days left to see 'The Roosevelts' for free at PBS:

[freshwest]

These 4 brought me to tears:

Part 4: The Storm (1920 - 1933

FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.

Roosevelt felled by polio, living with it and serving others with polio, his wife Eleanor's political activity, and election to be the 26th POTUS. Includes some very sad personal details:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365313167/

Part 5: The Rising Road (1933 - 1939)

Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365313172/

Part 6: The Common Cause (1939 - 1944)

Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365313178/

Part 7: A Strong and Active Faith (1944 - 1962)

Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365313345/

The full list, including the Spanish versions:

http://video.pbs.org/program/roosevelts/episodes/

About the inscription on the FDR Memorial pic:

'Nazi forces are not seeking mere modifications in colonial maps or in minor European boundaries. They openly seek the destruction of all elective systems of government on every continent - including our own; they seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers who have seized power by force. These men and their hypnotized followers call this a new order. It is not new. It is not order.'

~ Address to the Annual Dinner for White House Correspondents' Association, Washington, D.C. (15 March 1941).

A similar (but misleading 'quote') is inscribed on the FDR memorial, in Washington D. C., which says

'They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... Call this a New Order. It is not new and it is not order.'

~ Thus saith Wikiquote.

Enjoy, friends of the BOG (Barack Obama Group)!

[SheilaT]

1. I finished the series last night.

It was wonderful.

It's hard for us today to understand or appreciate just how much this country changed under FDR.

[sheshe2]

2. I will watch tomorrow night and Saturday...

I have early shifts. Thanks for the links, freshwest.

Bravo! I love that quote from FDR!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. So glad you could watch them freshwest

[freshwest]

4. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, Sleepless!

[Sweet Freedom]

5. I've been watching it on OnDemand

Two more to watch and I am done. I'll miss it. I really have enjoyed this series!

[SunSeeker]

6. Excellent series. FDR died too young at 63.

Teddy Roosevelt died in his 50s. I was struck by how backward and ineffective medical care was back in the 30s and 40s.

[IrishAyes]

7. I was born in 1946. If it had been 1945, I would've died.

[SunSeeker]

8. Me too.

No polio vaccine, no treatment for high blood pressure. Unthinkable in today's world.