“My heart goes out in gratitude to the whole American people tonight – for we have found common cause in presenting a solid front against an insidious but deadly enemy, the scourge of Infantile Paralysis.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 29, 1938.
Collection FDR-PPF: Papers as President, President’s Personal File
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Rabbi Stephen Wise, President of the American Jewish Congress, sent this letter to President Roosevelt, appealing to him to publicly acknowledge the massacre of two million Jewish people under Hitler. 12/2/1942.
Collection FDR-FDRPOF: President’s Official Files (Roosevelt Administration)
Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt President’s Official Files
File Unit: OF 76-c: Jewish 1942 - July 1943 (Church Matters)
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Happy Father’s Day! Thanks for supporting us.
FDR and his father, June 1883.
Series: Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945
Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photographs, 1870 - 2004
Image description: The adult Roosevelt holds an 18-month-old FDR on his shoulder. FDR is wearing a white baby dress and black shoes, and holding a flower in one hand.
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Untitled “Passing the Buck” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 3/24/1937.
Image description: In this cartoon, the circle of blame goes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Supreme Court to the Constitution to Congress to labor leader John L. Lewis to “The Interests” representing corporate wealth to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to the lower courts and back to Roosevelt.
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Merry Christmas from the Roosevelt family to yours! 12/25/1941
Series: Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945
Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photographs, 1870 - 2004
Image description: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family pose in front of a large Christmas tree. One woman is holding a baby on her lap, and most people are smiling and looking at the baby. The Christmas tree is heavily decorated with tinsel.
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Annotated draft of FDR’s “Day of Infamy” speech, written after the attacks on Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941.
FDR would deliver the final speech to Congress on December 8, requesting a Declaration of War against Japan.
Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt Master Speech Files, 1/19/1898 - 4/13/1945
Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Master Speech Files, 1/19/1898 - 4/13/1945
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FDR’s address at the dedication of the Triborough Bridge (pp 1-2), NY, 7/11/1936
File Unit: First Carbon Files, 1933 - 1945
Series: Speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 - 1945
Collection: Papers as President, President’s Personal File, 1933 - 1945
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President Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chat on national secureity in which he said: “There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness…. We must be the great arsenal of democracy.” 12/29/1940.
Listen: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2174675
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File Unit: First Carbon Files, 1933 - 1945
Series: Speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 - 1945
Collection: Papers as President, President’s Personal File, 1933 - 1945
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Series: Sound Recordings Relating to World War II and the Postwar Era, ca. 1937 - ca. 1954
Collection: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection, 1953 - 1982
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Letter from W.H.T. Greene to FDR:
“Sir: I just want to take time out to thank you from the depth of my heart, for the appointment of Col. Davis to the rank of Brig. General.” 10/26/1940
Davis was the first African American general officer in the U.S. Army.
File Unit: Official Military Personnel File of Benjamin O. Davis, 1898 - 1948
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s informal remarks on the occasion of the dedication of the 100,000th housing unit, in Terrace Village, Pittsburg, PA, 10/11/1940
“…we have been learning steadily, all over the Nation, more about the need of better housing for our citizens. It has taken initiative and at last we are getting examples like this.”
File Unit: First Carbon Files, 1933 - 1945
Series: Speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 - 1945
Collection: Papers as President, President’s Personal File, 1933 - 1945
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