Really, he’d hoped to spend that afternoon up in the second floor study, magnifying glass in hand, working on the stamp collection that since boyhood had taught him about the world. But FDR was ...
Editor's note: Paul M. Sparrow is the director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. He wrote this article for the Journal detailing the creation of Roosevelt's historic "Day ...
It was a speech President Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't expect to give. On a Sunday afternoon on December 7, 1941, our nation's 32nd president had just finished his lunch in his second-floor study in ...
When the phone rang, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in the Oval Study, located on the White House’s second floor, examining his stamp collection. The time was 1:47 p.m. The day was ...
SEVENTY YEARS ago this Wednesday, a wave of Japanese war planes swooped over America’s chief Pacific Naval base at Pearl Harbor and dropped their armor-piercing bombs on “Battleship Row.” The attack ...
Seventy-four years ago Monday, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prepared an emotional speech as Hawaii’s naval base at Pearl Harbor was in ruins following a massive air assault by Japan. More than ...
HYDE PARK, N.Y. - Seventy-five years after he dictated what would become one of the most famous speeches ever delivered by an American president, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first draft of his “Day of ...
Really, he’d hoped to spend that afternoon up in the second floor study, magnifying glass in hand, working on the stamp collection that since boyhood had taught him about the world. But FDR was ...
When the phone rang, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sitting in the Oval Study, located on the White House's second floor, examining his stamp collection. The time was 1:47 p.m. The day was ...
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