“Let us carry on the good that the past gave us.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1935
The FDR Library was rededicated yesterday with the opening of it’s new state-of-the-art permanent museum exhibits.
The new exhibits tell the story of the Roosevelt presidency beginning during the Great Depression and continuing through the New Deal and World War II with an emphasis on both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
More – A brief history of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Pictured: FDR’s original pencil sketch of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, drawn on April 12, 1937; The FDR Library under construction, 12/3/39; FDR’s Oval Office desk that he used throughout the 12 years he served as President.
The FDRLibrary is on Tumblr too! http://fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/
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Franklin Roosevelt is my hero. He was a long way of perfect, but he did some great, great things. (And some horrible...
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