A well illustrated magazine article from YANK reporting on the funeral of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States:
“Northward the train rolled, taking Franklin Roosevelt home… At lonely crossroads and and in great cities, the common people had come to say their good-bye to this cripple man who once had taken a crippled nation and helped it walk once more.”
The last part of this article can be read by clicking here.
CLICK HERE… to read the obituary of President Kennedy.
The historian Henry Steele Commager chose to rank FDR at number 19 insofar as his impact on the American mind was concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…
Read a 1933 article about FDR and the disaster that he tried to fix…
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