Franklin Delano Roosevelt Commemoration
President Clinton and others attended the “Remembering Franklin D. Roosevelt 50th Anniversary Commemorative Services” held at the Little Whi… read more
President Clinton and others attended the “Remembering Franklin D. Roosevelt 50th Anniversary Commemorative Services” held at the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. The president said President Roosevelt showed us how to be a nation in time of great stress, and taught us that our government could be an instrument of democratic destiny and could help our children to do better. The president said that, above all, President Roosevelt taught us about the human spirit. “In the face of fear and doubt and weariness, he showed we could literally will ourselves to overcome, as he had done and as has been already said so powerfully in his own life,” he stated. close
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- Lonice Barrett Director Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites
- Thomas Starlin Chairman Roosevelt Warm Springs Memorial Cmte.
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