Saying Goodbye to FDR
The unfinished portrait of FDR.
Death is always private, but the death of a world figure becomes a public event.
President Roosevelt’s Health
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in April, 1945, the world was stunned. He had been US president for twelve years, just recently inaugurated to an unprecedented fourth term.
Television was still experimental, and newsreels and photographs of the President were always carefully staged. Few Americans were aware that FDR had...
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