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FDR takes over
Leisure Guy, in his leisure no doubt, has some time to look seriously at political criticism and its accuracy. For example, recently he wondered about the claim that FDR didn’t do anything to help the...
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FDR’s First 100 Days – tailored for the classroom
The FDR Library in Hyde Park has an exhibit on FDR’s legendary First 100 Days. Accompanying the exhibit is a flyer, available on-line in .pdf, that is tailor made for a quick PowerPoint on the events....
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Beginning, beginning of the end, end of the beginning, end
January 30 is a momentous date, according to the AP list of events that occurred on this day. Franklin D. Roosevelt, National Portrait Gallery Beginning: Franklin Roosevelt, the only president of the...
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Stimulus spending: Texans remember how the CCC helped save the nation
New video history piece from the Texas Parks & Wildlife people: 63 Uploaded by TexasParksWildlife on Jan 17, 2012 The Civilian Conservation Corps provided jobs for over 3 million young men during...
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s hands
America’s monuments tell us something about the people who view the monuments, as well as informing us about the people or events the monuments commemorate. With statues of brass, for example, if...
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Celebrate Social Security “birthday,” August 14, 2012 at FDR Library
Press release from the FDR Presidential Library and Home; some informational links added here: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For press inquiries: Cliff Laube (845) 486-7745 FDR Presidential Library and Museum...
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1914 — photo of Flag Days past, present, and yet to come
A guy speaking on Flag Day. Unremarkable, except, look at the year, look at the audience. Caption from the Library of Congress: Flag Day exercises, State, War, and Navy Building. Wilson speaking;...
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January 30: A beginning, beginning of the end, end of the beginning, end
When students claim to find fantastic conjunctions of dates that they claim show worldwide conspiracies, sometimes centuries in existence, I point them to the internet to find what happened on that...
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How do humans interact with sculpture? This is a photo (I do not know the photographer) of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his dog Fala, from the FDR Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Some...
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