It has been 63 years today since the death of Franklin D Roosevelt

[whistle]

...perhaps the second last U.S. President who attempted to restore the Federal Government to follow the true goals of our Constitution, the last being JFK. :yoiks:


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FDR remembered on anniversary of his death
By Larry Hertz • Poughkeepsie Journal • April 12, 2008

About 100 people attended the half-hour service this afternoon at the F.D. Roosevelt Historic Site to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death.

“I’m here out of respect for a man who led our country through difficult times,” said Nadine Dolfinger, or LaGrange, who attended the Rose Garden service.

Roosevelt died April 12, 1945, at his family’s winter retreat in Warm Springs, Ga. He was 63 years old and in his 13th year as president, shepherding the country through the Depression and most of World War II.

Christopher duPont Roosevelt, one of the president’s grandsons, said he was only 3 years old when his grandfather died and had no memory of the event. But he said he had seen photographs of FDR taken just hours before his death, “and you can see how worn and drawn his face was.”

Roosevelt, a Mount Kisco attorney, called upon those who gathered today to honor his grandfather and follow his example of reaching out to others in a spirit of goodwill and friendship.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080412/NEWS01/80412008

[Mountainman]

1. Bush doesn't even deserve to be called president if being president means being as great a person as

FDR was.

[Beregond2]

2. My mother

often talks about what a shock it was to her when FDR died. He was the only President she could even remember, and to have this patrician figure suddenly gone and replaced with a banty rooster named Truman was like a shift in the cosmos. She came to admire Truman of course, but in her mind FDR will always be the President.

[whistle]

3. I was four years old when FDR died and I recall childhood memories

...of my parents expressing similar sentiments and for years after being disappointed in Truman who seemed to be the polar opposite to FDR. Then came the republican return to power in 1952 and just so much concern over the back sliding in the direction of the working people until the election of JFK which ushered in new hope. That however was short lived with his assassination.

By then of course I had grown and was formulating my own political preferences which were clearly in the direction of socialized democracy and social justice, higher education and self sufficiency through each person's contributions. I got married, finished college, worked hard, raised our four children and put them all through college and looked forward to our grandchildren and retirement. This militarism that the U.S. political powers have embraced is not at all what I had envisioned as the legacy for our children and grandchildren and the country to be involved with. I certainly don't think it was what FDR or JFK had in mind either.

[krispos42]

4. Here's the front page of the New York Times

I have a book of all of the important NYT front pages for the 20th Century: assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Germany invades Poland, Soviets launch Sputnik, Neil Armstrong on the Moon, etc. It's a pretty hefty volume.



:patriot:

[whistle]

5. Wonderful, thank you

[Initech]

6. He was planning to bring the BFEE to justice during his fourth term.

They had enough evidence to try and convict Prescott for treasonous crimes (including the infamous "business plot" to overthrow him and install a fascist dictatorship) during the fourth term but he died before they could bring it to trial.

Oh if only they knew then what we know now.

[UTUSN]

7. And he and Eleanor have been loving influences in my entire life all that time. n/t