We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!
Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962 (holdings of the @fdrlibrary)
Then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy and future president Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 100 years ago today. FDR had also visited two years earlier in 1914, inspecting the ill-fated battleship USS Arizona.
On this day in history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was born!
“This is a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his reelection campaign in 1936. It’s sounds like a perfect sarcastic description of the political gamble being played with common people’s lives, that is still going on these days as well…”
FDR’s First Fireside Chat
Today in history, March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside Chat. Using the radio to speak directly to the nation, FDR laid out his plan to address the banking crisis of the Great Depression.
Watch archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library here.
More — President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
-from the FDR Library
We are a day late on this but this is great information.
FDR’s First Fireside Chat
Today in history, March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first Fireside Chat. Using the radio to speak directly to the nation, FDR laid out his plan to address the banking crisis of the Great Depression.
Watch archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library here.
More — President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
-from the FDR Library
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935. Regular monthly payments to retirees began in 1940 and have continued ever since. But there have been several important adjustments to the program, including changes in the retirement age and increases in benefits to keep up with inflation. Here’s how the Social Security program has changed over 80 years…
via US News.
ICYMI: Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, lends her to support to Eleanor’s Hope, an initiative to protect women’s health and retirement security.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
75 yrs ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met the for the First Québec Conference from August 17-24, 1943. The two discussed topics concerning the future operations in the Mediterranean and Operation Overlord. Conversations on atomic energy were also on the agenda, with FDR and Churchill agreeing that neither would communicate any information about atomic development to third parties, namely the Soviet Union, without each others consent.
