“A perfect dedication,” everyone said later. Everyone, that is, but announcer Brandt, who had gotten his Roosevelts mixed up. “Next to Jefferson,” he had announced, “is an aperture which, in a few years, will reveal the face of our present president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.” The crowd, startled, had shouted “No! No!” reported Robert Dean, “and Brandt quickly corrected himself. But the ‘Franklin Delano’ had gone out over the network, and millions of listeners had heard it.”
